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In reply to the discussion: Kamala Harris' Husband Slams WSJ Op-Ed Urging Jill Biden to Stop Calling Herself a Doctor [View all]still_one
(98,883 posts)"In September 1970, Harper's Magazine published an article by Epstein called "Homo/Hetero: The Struggle for Sexual Identity"[8] that was criticized for its perceived homophobia.[9] Epstein wrote that he considered homosexuality "a curse, in a literal sense" and that his sons could do nothing to make him sadder than "if any of them were to become homosexual."[9][10] Gay activists characterized the essay as portraying every gay man the author met, or fantasized about meeting, as predatory, sex-obsessed, and a threat to civilization.[11] In the essay, he says that, if possible, "I would wish homosexuality off the face of the earth", a statement that was interpreted by gay writer and editor Merle Miller as a call to genocide.[12] A sit-in took place at Harper's by members of the Gay Activists Alliance.[13][11]
In 2015, Epstein wrote an article for The Washington Examiner in which he mentioned the Harper's article from 1970. He wrote, "I am pleased the tolerance for homosexuality has widened in America and elsewhere, that in some respects my own aesthetic sensibility favors much homosexual artistic production... My only hope now is that, on my gravestone, the words Noted Homophobe arent carved."[14][15][16]
In 2015, Epstein also wrote an article for The Weekly Standard in which he claimed that Barack Obama was an "affirmative-action president" that was elected "not on [his] intrinsic qualities."[17][18]
In a December 2020 Wall Street Journal opinion piece, he suggested that Jill Biden stop using the academic title "Dr.", which she earned as a Doctor of Education, saying that it "feels fraudulent, not to say a touch comic".[19] The piece, which opens by addressing her as "Madame First LadyMrs. BidenJillkiddo", was criticized on Twitter by several public figures.[20] He also critiqued the title of Biden's dissertation, "Student Retention at the Community College Level: Meeting Students' Needs", calling it "unpromising".[21]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Epstein_(writer)
In other words, he has shown a pattern of behavior aligned with sexists and racists