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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsU. of PA prof Amy WAX still has a job spewing SHITLER's racism
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.... However, this is not the first time Wax has found herself in the middle of a controversy. In 2018, the professor was reassigned at the school after a video surfaced in which Wax argued against affirmative action and claimed black law school students at Penn underperformed.
I dont think Ive ever seen a black student graduate in the top quarter of the class, and rarely in the top half, she told interviewer Glenn Loury, an economics professor at Brown University, at the time. The universitys dean, Ruger, refuted her claims regarding black students, and the school found Wax's comments violated confidentiality rules surrounding grades. Following the ruling, Wax was no longer permitted to teach assigned, required first-year courses. ....
https://abovethelaw.com/2019/07/t14-law-professor-goes-to-white-nationalism-conference-and-says-white-nationalist-things-and-still-somehow-has-a-job-amy-wax/?rf=1
Amy Wax spoke to 'national conservatives' about immigration and you can imagine what she said.
Every few months, Amy Wax finds her way into the spotlight. For years, the Penn Law professor has doggedly pursued her 15 minutes of fame by delivering a contrived song and dance that she can convert into a 5-minute hit on Tucker Carlson the black tar heroin for insecure narcissists who measure their intellectual currency in cable news airtime instead of peer-reviewed scholarship[1] to complain about the politically correct campus culture thats out to get her simply because she harbors different ideas that are a jumble of racist stereotypes. And like any junkie whos enabled at every turn, Wax finds a way to raise the stakes every time, spouting more and more outrageous nonsense in her desperate bid for attention.
Every single time Wax pops up to tie Penn Laws reputation to her quackery, the school has shrugged its shoulders, preferring to treat Wax like the institutions crazy, tenured aunt. Theres always another excuse to be made for Waxs continued employment. A school donor threw a temper tantrum and stepped down from the board of trustees when the school finally took the prudent step of pulling Wax off of 1L duties, forcing the school to sheepishly step back from any more substantial response to Waxs tripe.
But perhaps we can all agree that wherever the line is, speaking at a white nationalism conference should be across it. ....
Waxs antics have made her an Above the Law All-Star in all the horrible ways that status implies. Shes written rambling, evidence-free screeds about how America was better when white men kept everyone else in their place. Shes bald-faced lied about the academic achievements of black students at Penn. She tried to newsjack the Kavanaugh hearings by popping off about how Dr. Christine Blasey Ford should have held her tongue.
Waxs critics often fall into her trap by trying to denounce her barely coherent sputterings as though shes got wrong thoughts, only feeding her narrative that theres some shadowy thought police out there. Its PC culture run amok, shell argue while micd up on Fox News, and thats the coin of the realm over there. ....
https://www.vox.com/2019/7/17/20696543/national-conservatism-conference-2019-trump
A conference on national conservatism barely mentioned Trump but gave voice to Trumpism.
.... In a panel on immigration, University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax claimed that immigrants are too loud and responsible for an increase in litter. She explicitly advocated an immigration policy that would favor immigrants from Western countries over non-Western ones; the position, as she put it, that our country will be better off with more whites and fewer nonwhites. (She claims this is not racist because her problem with nonwhite immigrants is cultural rather than biological.) ....
In her address, she favorably quoted John Derbyshire, a writer who once penned a piece telling his white children to avoid going places where black people hang out in groups and was fired from his job at National Review as a result. In her paper, she cites the alt-right publications VDARE and Takis Magazine as examples of advocates of her cultural distance approach.
Waxs view is an outright argument for white supremacy exactly the sort of thing that Brog claimed to abhor and reject. ... ....
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RainCaster
(10,929 posts)Or our grandkids, nieces, etc. You can count on kids coming out of there to have no ability for rational thought. Which also means those grads would have little use in the real world.
Loki Liesmith
(4,602 posts)UPenn? Lol ok.
UTUSN
(70,762 posts)Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)The terms 'Ivy League' + 'Embarrassment' combined might result in lower Alumni fundraising totals.
Bummer for the class presidents, but maybe the hard sciences can get some dRumpf Defense Dept appropriations, to offset the august institution's financial losses.
Notice how d Rump's college 'free speech' initiative only affects state colleges and universities. He'll yank federal funds from them, if they don't let his nazi pals (Spencer, yanodopolopogus, etc.) speak free. But he didn't include an enforcement measure against private Universities, coz he doesn't want anti-nazis suing Bob Jones U, Liberty U, Georgetown, etc, for access.
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)As a proud alum of Penn, I can assure you that she does not represent the University or how people there think or feel.
Unfortunately, other great academic institutions have found themselves in similar situations where they have someone like this on their faculty and they can't get rid of them because they became tenured.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)Her face reminds me of some evil character
Or Boris Karloff maybe?