The Persecution Of Amy Wax: Latest Updates

02/22/2023

Earlier: ”Cauldron Of Iniquity” Penn Law School Persecuting Truth-Teller Amy Wax

We at VDARE.com have posted before on the case of University of Pennsylvania Law School Professor Amy Wax. How is that case going?

Aaron Sibarium posted a good update at the Washington Free Beacon, February 13th.

Amy Wax may be the most controversial law professor in country. Now, the University of Pennsylvania is trying to get rid of its tenured bomb-thrower — by any means necessary.

If Penn succeeds, it could mean the death of academic freedom as we know it. 🧵https://t.co/px4uXTT5Fl
— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) February 13, 2023

It makes it clearer than ever that the driving spirit behind the university’s vendetta against Professor Wax is the law school dean, Theodore Ruger.

It also makes it clear that Theodore Ruger is a very nasty piece of work indeed, a vindictive liar and fraud.

In September 2017 Prof. Wax told Glenn Loury in a Bloggingheads exchange that “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.” Dean Ruger told the university in a public email that this was not true. Asked to back that up with data, which he surely possesses, Ruger has refused.
Ruger told the university’s faculty Senate in June last year that Wax’s comments had led “reasonable students” to conclude that she would grade them “based on their race.” In fact Prof. Wax couldn’t do that if she wanted to; U. Penn. has a blind-grading policy.
In a September 2019 town hall [MP3] meeting with law school students, Ruger told the students that Prof. Wax’s statements were racist and “harmful.” “It sucks that she still works here,” he told them.
An outside investigation found, quote, “no evidence,” end quote that Prof. Wax had treated students unfairly. The university ignored the result, then launched a second investigation, without disclosing it to Prof. Wax. They kept the results of both probes secret for months.

And so on. It really is a vendetta. It’s also a vivid illustration of how very, very seriously these academic ideologues take their bizarre, infantile, unscientific theories about human nature and human society. As Aaron Sibarium points out

The last time Penn axed a tenured faculty member, it was because he killed his wife.

Yes: to these crazed ideologues, Prof. Wax’s speaking some mild opinions about racial and cultural differences has the same moral weight as manslaughter.

Latest development: On January 16th this year Prof. Wax, through her attorneys, struck back against Ruger, filing a 24-page grievance [MS Word] and demanding eight items for relief. I smiled to see that Number Five of those items was:

Dean Ruger is ordered to comply with all of the requests for information found in Prof. Wax’s Aug. Memo, including but not limited to arranging for an outside examination of student grades by race, as pertinent to his allegations that Professor Wax spoke “falsely” on the topic.

Just that one item, if granted, will expose Dean Ruger for the lying Stalinist weasel he undoubtedly is.

As I noted in my last posting on the case, Prof. Wax has a legal defense fund you can donate to at GoFundMe.com. If you care about liberty of speech in the academy and can afford to donate, by all means do so.

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