Penn Law Professor Who Claims Black Students Are Jealous of ‘Western Peoples” Achievements Whines About ‘Academic Freedom’ As Law Students Demand Her Resignation - Yahoo News

Black and Asian law students are pressuring officials at one of the nation’s top Ivy Leagues to remove a professor from the school for spewing racist rhetoric.

Amy Wax, a University of Pennsylvania Law School professor, has openly made racist remarks in and outside of the lecture hall, NBC News reports. The National Black Law Students Association, the National Asian Pacific American Law Student Association, and the North American South Asian Law Students Association jointly released a letter on Wednesday calling for Wax to be ousted from the campus and barred from talking to students.

Wax, who has taught courses at UPenn since 2001, said that country would be “better off with fewer Asians” and that “Blacks” and Asians are resentful of “Western peoples’ outsized achievements.”

“That Wax has been permitted to teach, supervise, and ridicule minority law students for over twenty-one years is alarming,” the letter says. “Few understand how much more burdensome law school is for students who continuously receive the message that they are ‘less than’ or do not belong.”

The Penn Law School has received backlash for years about the professor’s remarks. The school has disciplined Wax. Her actions are currently under review, but her offensive tirades have continued.

In a recent interview, Wax said the pushback goes against “academic freedom.” Wax teaches two courses at the law school.

“My case is on some level not about me. I’m just roadkill. I’m a casualty in the culture wars,” Wax told Canadian YouTuber Gad Saad in January. “What I see being said and done with respect to me is truly alarming. It is a total repudiation of the very concept of academic freedom.”

The group of student leaders is demanding that the school strip Wax of all of her teaching duties and investigate if her grading of Black, brown and Asian students has been fair, NBC News reports. The student organizations want Wax to be suspended until her grade books from the past 21 years are reviewed.

“Here’s a very inconvenient fact, Glenn, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Black student graduate in the top quarter of the class and rarely, rarely in the top half,” Wax in a YouTube lecture video.

“[B]lack students have graduated in the top of the class at Penn Law, and the Law Review does not have a diversity mandate. Rather, its editors are selected based on a competitive process,” Ruger said in an. “And contrary to any suggestion otherwise, black students at Penn Law are extremely successful, both inside and outside the classroom, in the job market, and in their careers.”

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