Times opinion page is getting a whole lot of mileage out of this one. This is like the 4th op-ed about this, at least.
There is absolutely no reason why anyone should ever give the vaguest shit what Bret "I'm going to email your boss for referring to me as a bedbug to your 250 Twitter followers" Stephens thinks about anything. Lolbrooks comes from a place of not quite understanding how to empathize with anyone who lacks a fitted suit. Stephens comes from a place of actively reviling anyone who lacks a fitted suit. Lolbrooks is Principal Skinner, a man we can fundamentally empathize with despite disagreeing with him about nearly everything. Stephens is the antagonist of a Verheuven film.
The point would be valid if "argument expressed in the editorial section of the New York Times" had the same weight as "argument not expressed in the editorial section of the New York Times." This can be solved by inspection; that they have an editorial board at all illustrates that they consider some opinions to be more important than others. This is the principal beef that every pearl-clutching 'boomer, closet racist and establishmentarianism refuses to see: the NYTimes is saying "all opinions are equal, some are more equal than others."