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UTUSN

(70,720 posts)
Sat Jul 20, 2019, 11:45 PM Jul 2019

U. of PA prof Amy WAX still has a job spewing SHITLER's racism

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https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/u-penn-professor-faces-backlash-for-allegedly-saying-us-would-be-better-off-with-more-whites-and-fewer-nonwhites-220301733.html
UPenn professor faces backlash for allegedly saying U.S. would be 'better off with more whites and fewer nonwhites'

.... 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 don’t think I’ve 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 university’s 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
T14 Law Professor Goes To White Nationalism Conference And Says White Nationalist Things And Somehow Still Has A Job

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 that’s “out to get her” simply because “she harbors different ideas” that are “a jumble of racist stereotypes.” And like any junkie who’s 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 Law’s reputation to her quackery, the school has shrugged its shoulders, preferring to treat Wax like the institution’s crazy, tenured aunt. There’s always another excuse to be made for Wax’s 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 Wax’s tripe.

But perhaps we can all agree that wherever the line is, “speaking at a white nationalism conference” should be across it. ....

Wax’s antics have made her an Above the Law All-Star in all the horrible ways that status implies. She’s written rambling, evidence-free screeds about how America was better when white men kept everyone else in their place. She’s 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.”

Wax’s critics often fall into her trap by trying to denounce her barely coherent sputterings as though she’s got “wrong thoughts,” only feeding her narrative that there’s some shadowy “thought police” out there. It’s “PC culture run amok,” she’ll argue while mic’d up on Fox News, and that’s the coin of the realm over there. ....


https://www.vox.com/2019/7/17/20696543/national-conservatism-conference-2019-trump
Trump and the dead end of conservative nationalism

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 Taki’s Magazine as examples of advocates of her “cultural distance” approach.

Wax’s view is an outright argument for white supremacy — exactly the sort of thing that Brog claimed to abhor and reject. ... ....

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U. of PA prof Amy WAX still has a job spewing SHITLER's racism (Original Post) UTUSN Jul 2019 OP
This is a place we do not want our kids to go to RainCaster Jul 2019 #1
Lol really? Loki Liesmith Jul 2019 #2
She's protected by tenure and free speech, yet we are barraged how Libruls brainwash helpless kids. UTUSN Jul 2019 #3
U Penn Law really dropped the ball, tenure-review-wise. Mc Mike Jul 2019 #6
Please do not let this woman be a reflection of Penn Pachamama Jul 2019 #4
Trying to figure out what Nazi she resembles GusBob Jul 2019 #5
Slight resemblance to Magda Goebbels perhaps? Marengo Jul 2019 #7

RainCaster

(10,904 posts)
1. This is a place we do not want our kids to go to
Sat Jul 20, 2019, 11:52 PM
Jul 2019

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.

UTUSN

(70,720 posts)
3. She's protected by tenure and free speech, yet we are barraged how Libruls brainwash helpless kids.
Sat Jul 20, 2019, 11:56 PM
Jul 2019

Mc Mike

(9,114 posts)
6. U Penn Law really dropped the ball, tenure-review-wise.
Sun Jul 21, 2019, 08:49 AM
Jul 2019

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)
4. Please do not let this woman be a reflection of Penn
Sun Jul 21, 2019, 05:17 AM
Jul 2019

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)
5. Trying to figure out what Nazi she resembles
Sun Jul 21, 2019, 07:13 AM
Jul 2019

Her face reminds me of some evil character

Or Boris Karloff maybe?

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