Latest Folly at Yale
Dec. 8th, 2021 12:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ndrosenI drink instant coffee. I used to buy cups of a better grade of coffee at the Concessions shop at the Patent Office, but since the pandemic, I have bought instant coffee at the supermarket, and not bothered to get a coffeemaker. Does this make me a contemptible boor, or less than human? Would I be subhuman if I lived in some town where only mass market Joe were available?
I raise these questions because of the latest kerfuffle at Yale, where some psychiatric residents want to get rid of Dr. Sally Satel for, among other grave sins, dehumanizing the people of an Ohio town by saying she had been surprised to find a coffee shop with artisanal coffee there. Dr. Satel has not been fired, as the yahoos demanded, but neither has the Yale administration dismissed the complaint, with an admonition to the woke twerps to find some real problem in the world, and help fix that. The complaint also treats it as unacceptable for her to criticize the saintly Al Sharpton.
That grownups — they’re medical residents, not college freshmen — could write such a thing, and not be laughed out of court, is both risible, and a disturbing sign of how far things have gone on some campuses.
I raise these questions because of the latest kerfuffle at Yale, where some psychiatric residents want to get rid of Dr. Sally Satel for, among other grave sins, dehumanizing the people of an Ohio town by saying she had been surprised to find a coffee shop with artisanal coffee there. Dr. Satel has not been fired, as the yahoos demanded, but neither has the Yale administration dismissed the complaint, with an admonition to the woke twerps to find some real problem in the world, and help fix that. The complaint also treats it as unacceptable for her to criticize the saintly Al Sharpton.
That grownups — they’re medical residents, not college freshmen — could write such a thing, and not be laughed out of court, is both risible, and a disturbing sign of how far things have gone on some campuses.
