Jill Biden, the first woman to be elected, wrote a controversial Wall Street Journal editorial arguing that the title “Doctor” should not be used, and Northwestern University wiped out one of its former lecturers from the school’s website. Before her name.
Joseph Epstein was listed on the school’s website on Saturday as “Emeritus Lecturer in English”, but disappeared later that day. Journalist David Cura noted.
The college issued a statement saying it “strongly disagreed” with Epstein, arguing that Biden should drop the degree because he was not a medical doctor.
“The Northwest is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, and strongly disagrees with Mr. Epstein’s misconceptions,” the university told the Daily Northwestern.
The school noted that he had “never been a professor at NU and has not been a lecturer here since 2002.”
In an op-ed released Friday, Epstein argued that Jill Biden, who holds a doctorate in education from the University of Delaware, should use the title “not to say touch comic, it appears to be fraud”.
“A wise man once said that no one should call himself a ‘doctor’ unless he has given birth to a child,” Epstein wrote.
Epstein was also a Northwest target for awarding coveted titles to early speakers such as Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers.
“I sent an e-mail to the school president complaining about the low quality of men, such as academics,” Epstein wrote before lamenting that the college went to give one to Billy Jean King, who noted he hit tennis balls for the crowd at graduation. .
This op-ed has been met with waves of regression online – including Pitton’s team, which has called this area “sexual”.
You @WSJ should be ashamed to print the hateful and sexual assault on rDrBiden running on the SWS Jobinian side, ”said Piton spokesman Michael Larosa Tweeted James Toronto, author of WSJ Editorial Features.
“If you have any respect for women, you will remove this awful chauvinist scene from your paper and apologize to her.”