^The thread title encompasses only one target of her disdain (white trash) but there are many others. I assume the obese, the idiots, and the sketchy are not all just variants of white trash …
There are mean people in all walks of life, but it is interesting to me that this woman is held to a high standard, or even any standard in her anonymous posts. I guess I don’t think she is to be revered and is particularly special because of her position.
A jerk is a jerk, no matter what your job is. They are everywhere. And people get a pass if they are rude and jerky about the right sort of people (based in their politics). No doubt she would be lauded for jerkiness if it went the right way. I don’t think she is anything special. Many people are like this all the time, but just don’t bother to write it down where it can be traced.
@busdriver11 these weren’t anonymous posts and she sent a college wide email to brag about her Yelp Elite status, she wanted everyone to know those were her posts which I think is the really odd part of all this.
She’s no great fan of New Haven or it’s residents apparently, and has little patience for those who are so obviously beneath her. If a prospective student showed this kind of disdain for Yale’s home in their application responses, do you think they would be admitted? Not likely IMO. I hope they send her packing. “I’m sure McDonald’s would hire [her]”. Then again, probably not.
“Everyone raves about the views but seriously - it’s New Haven.”
“…without sketchy crowds (despite being in New Haven).”
“…perfect for those low class folks who believe this is a real night out.”
“Cashiers were also a bit confused about who was to ring me out. For one donut.”
(quotes, including parenthetical, from some of Ms. Chu’s Yelp reviews).
Given that she’s in New Haven, I have the feeling that plenty of those she calls “sketchy” are people of color.
But of course, she KNOWS that openly saying THAT is beyond the pale. B-) Apparently she thought she could safely declare her superiority to poor whites, especially if they are – gasp! – overweight. The last group that can safely be made the object of derision in the US.
Look at her remarks about mochi. Surely there are plenty of POC who also don’t know anything about mochi, and just as surely there are people of all races who do. She could simply have said “Fine for diners who don’t know mochi” and not brought race into it at all. The fact that she chose to kind of boggles my mind. It would seem to indicate that this class/race thing occupies a lot of space in her mind.
For those who have read Hillbilly Elegy, there’s kind of a weird nexus here. The author went to Yale Law, and credits Amy Chu–the Tiger Mother–with encouraging him.
Honestly, I don’t think some of those quotes above are that bad. 
“Everyone raves about the views but seriously - it’s New Haven.”
“Cashiers were also a bit confused about who was to ring me out. For one donut.”
What’s so horrible about these? Snarky maybe but it is Yelp after all.
Oh, I should have read closer. Wow, that is arrogantly brain dead stupid.
Ugh… ugh! [-(
^^Well, hey, that could be me…so, where is that place, it could be perfect. 
That remark about mochi - that could be someone in my family complaining about Italian food that wasn’t authentic enough, overcooked, etc., but there are ways of saying things and ways of saying things. She seems to take the meanest, most “I know best” approach.
And mochi is Japanese, correct? And she is not?
Variants of mochi have been culturally appropriated from Japan and are common in Taiwan (but different). And an Asian from e.g. India may feel that the implied need to understand mochi is a microaggression.
I have done 25 years of rice eating in China, so from what I am used to, I find Mexican (and Italian) rice to be really wrong …
Her ancestry or upbringing does not appear to be described in the articles.
Not that whether or not she has Japanese ancestry or upbringing changes the impression of her being not very nice with elitist, racist, and classist flavors.
^She is American-born with Taiwanese parents, according to her Yale bio.
So looks like she was “placed on leave” this morning and will not be participating in commencement activities or advising students in any capacity. Apparently they were “looking for a way forward” after viewing just 2 or 3 Yelp reviews but after more came to the attention of the head of Pierson he “no longer saw a way forward.”"
I’m SHOCKED, SHOCKED, I tell you, to learn that a person who seems nice in person is mean in Internet postings. Who ever heard of such a thing?
Ok… http://pierson.yalecollege.yale.edu/june-chu-dean-pierson-college says:
Cheshire appears to be a high income mostly white area; the other US places are where she attended universities.
I assume she will be moving shortly, tough to have this dismissal on her resume.
Isn’t mochi that jellied rice puck? Funny she chooses to get all snooty about that, not like it’s pizza or something.
“Isn’t mochi that jellied rice puck? Funny she chooses to get all snooty about that, not like it’s pizza or something.”
Better not post THAT on social media.
Taiwan was a Japanese colony for 50 years, ending (for obvious reasons) in 1945. The generations of Taiwanese who were raised in a culture oriented towards Japan are dying out now, and there was a significant purge of Japanese culture (and Japanese people) when the Kuomintang took over, but I imagine Taiwanese are pretty familiar with mochi.