Critic Kyle Smith, doubling down on the recent, ridiculous criticism of Dr. Jill Biden for using the title of doctor in her name, wrote in the National Review:
“As for Biden, she has spent a lot of time teaching remedial English to slow learners in community colleges. Which is like being a rock musician who’s in a bar band. That plays covers. At mixers. Held in assisted-living facilities.”
What a stupid, little man.
Spending a large portion of your life teaching English to struggling learners at a community college is the work of a goddamn saint. Not only is the job incredibly challenging and difficult, but she’s making an enormous difference in the lives of students.
Just imagine how incredibly insecure and pathetic someone needs to be to criticize a person for teaching struggling learners at a community college.
Kyle Smith served in the Persian Gulf War. I respect and honor his service to our country.
Since then, he has become a novelist and film critic who once wrote that women were incapable of understanding Goodfellas.
Not exactly changing lives.
Smith also graduated from Yale University, which makes his criticism of community college not only ignorant and petty, but probably elitist and classist as well. While Jill Biden is teaching struggling learners, many of whom lacked the funding to attend a four year college, Smith lobs his insults from the walls of an ivy league institution that does not accept struggling learners into its classes.
What is wrong with these small, stupid, men who lack a doctorate degree of their own and are so insecure and threatened by a woman with a title that they must waste their decidedly less-than-previous time criticizing someone who has devoted so much of her life to the service of others?
Crawl back into your meaningless, little hole, Kyle Smith. Cloak yourself in your misogyny and classism if it makes you feel good, but do us all a favor and shut the hell up.
Some of us, like Dr. Jill Biden, have work to do.
Work that doesn’t make you rich but changes lives.
