Northwestern Scrubs Prof Who Wrote ‘Dr.’ Jill Biden Piece but Keeps Holocaust Denier
“Northwestern scrubbed Epstein’s faculty profile from its website and issued a statement condemning Epstein’s argument”
Saying that Jill Biden shouldn’t use the title of Dr. is now a sin, but academia will look the other way for certain other offenses.
Campus Reform reports:
Northwestern scrubs prof over ‘Dr.’ Jill Biden op-ed, keeps Holocaust denier
Former Northwestern University lecturer Joseph Epstein, who wrote an op-ed stating that Jill Biden should cease using the title “Dr,” was harshly and publicly condemned by Northwestern.
Epstein wrote in the Wall Street Journal that Jill Biden’s use of the term “Dr.” is “fraudulent, not to say a touch comic,” as she has a doctorate degree in education instead of a medical degree.
To justify his position, he referred to his 30 years as a Northwestern lecturer and lamented the school’s denigration of academic credentials by granting honorary degrees to Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers.
The day after the op-ed’s publication, Northwestern scrubbed Epstein’s faculty profile from its website and issued a statement condemning Epstein’s argument: “While we firmly support academic freedom and freedom of expression, we do not agree with Mr. Epstein’s opinion and believe the designation of doctor is well deserved by anyone who has earned a Ph.D., an Ed.D., an M.D. or any other doctoral degree.”
The university noted that it is “firmly committed to equity, diversity and inclusion, and strongly disagrees with Mr. Epstein’s misogynistic views.”
The university reacted differently when professor Arthur Butz commended then-Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for declaring that the Holocaust never happened.
In 2006, the university admitted that “Butz is a Holocaust denier who has made similar assertions previously,” calling his statement “a contemptible insult to all decent and feeling people.”
Yet, the school also clarified that Butz was “entitled to express his personal views, including on his personal web pages, as long as he does not represent such opinions as the views of the university.”
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Well this is a no-brainer. Antisemitism is rife on campus and within the Socialist/Communist Party. It has the imprimatur of the Party, just as it did with that other Communist Party 100 years ago. And the modern Party has Jewish people who work right along with the Party, just as Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein, like many of today’s Socialist/Communist youth, born to wealth) did a century ago.
By now there certainly should be more than a critical mass of honest, out-of-work educators to fully staff several regional Traditional Truth Universities. Where is education’s Elon Musk?
I’m old enough to remember when the left ridiculed people for insisting on being addressed as doctor. https://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Sinatra-Little-Doonesbury-Trudeau/dp/0030085373
Butz’ praise of Iran is sacrosanct. After all, Iran is a noble, Third World, Islamic country that fought against eveil American imperialism.
@henrybowman–You have a point.