? Not sure about this...he was the only reason why this was public in the first place. He posted about this non stop, so no one needs to project their feelings into this
I think this is a cautionary tale for everyone to hear, share and understand. Not everyone is on SDN everyday so having this be a topic for a week or two will be good.
It will die out all by itself just like every other thread eventually has.
In this vein i think its good for everyone to know the basics of what happened and realize that this is a professional forum and not a social forum. Yes, there are some who are gossiping on this thread, but you cant control the internet...but you CAN influence it.
So, for those of you who are complaining about this thread (or any others) remember what Gandhi learned from H.D. Thoreau: be the change you want to see in the world. In this case, if you want this to die, don't post. If you want this to change, post something different.
I want this to be about the actual situation, without being specific to the person involved since thats irrelevant to learning from the experience, so Ill post about what happened:
This is the basics of what has happened, for those of you who haven't heard yet. A certain SDN regular recently had his acceptance rescinded from a medical school after having posted several comments, and started a number of threads, that contained racially insensitive comments, threats to other users and other immature and unprofessional language and attitude. There was one last instance that was the breaking point for this person, in which they had a fight in a Facebook group with another user and ended up making a racially insensitive joke and some threats. Whats silly is that this user used their real name on both SDN and Facebook, and associated themselves with their med school often. After so many offenses, presumably, the school decided the student was no longer deserving of a spot in their class this year and set them an email. This is not the first, nor last, time that a med school has rescinded an acceptance for unprofessional behavior.
At first, some thought it was a prank, but it ended up being true. Those of us who have been on SDN for a while are split because this user was known to be kind and encouraging to underdogs, but then again had several distasteful exchanges on SDN which brought up this whole dichotomy.
In the end, it doesn't matter to judge the person, but it does make sense to understand the situation. Obviously, you can't have immunity of consequences online, especially if you use your own name.
