The sickening attack on Otto Warmbier is symbolic of the left’s hate problem

Yesterday, as news of Otto Warmbier’s sad and tragic death spread across the Web, a number of people on Twitter recalled and reposted a series of leftist hot takes on Warmbier’s initial arrest and imprisonment. Let’s just say that they did not age well.

Comedy Central’s Larry Wilmore was one of the chief offenders, launching one of his shows with an eight-minute festival of mockery that accepted the North Korean regime’s version of events, mocked Warmbier’s anguished tears, and even posted a graphic calling him an “ass” — based on the initials of a fictional fraternity. The message? Let’s mock frat bros when they go where Daddy can’t protect them. Doubt me? Watch for yourself:

Wilmore wasn’t alone, of course. At the Huffington Post, self-described “revolutionary” writer La Sha went on an extended rant that once again accepted North Korea’s version of events and then imputed to Warmbier a bulletproof sense of white privilege.