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Penn muzzles fearless conservative professor for exposing truth about DEI black students
By newseditors // 2024-09-27
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Isn’t it ironic how the left touts itself as the champion of fighting “disinformation,” yet they’re the ones silencing the truth and punishing anyone brave enough to speak out? This is especially true when it comes to topics like black crime statistics and DEI students who aren’t cutting the mustard. So, if you dare to talk about real, raw issues, especially involving black students, you’re instantly labeled a “racist,” blacklisted, and shut down. That’s exactly what’s happening to University of Pennsylvania Professor Amy Wax, who dared to discuss the fact that no black students made it into the top quarter of Penn Law School’s class of 2023. (Article republished from Revolver.news) That’s an important and noteworthy revelation—one that deserves attention, not censorship. However, the woke DEI-pushers leading Penn saw it differently. Now, her entire career trajectory has been derailed because she spoke up. The DEI-obsessed faculty at Penn came down on her with a vengeance, determined to make an example of anyone who challenges their agenda and speaks the truth. Steve Sailer:
Of all of Professor Amy Wax’s myriad sins against the Woke worldview, the one that seems to have gotten the Penn Law School administration most obsessively angry with her was what she told Brown U. economist Glenn Loury during a 2017 podcast discussing the “downside of affirmative action. According to CNN: “Here is 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 told Brown University professor Glenn Loury in a video of the interview that recently gained attention. When asked to elaborate, Wax said she was basing her numbers on personal data. “I have a class of 89, 95 students every year. I see a big chunk of students every year – so I am going on that, because a lot of this data is a closely guarded secret.”
This is the supposed “hate speech” that did Amy in. The facts don’t lie. Amy used her personal student data to shine a spotlight on the glaring failure of Penn’s DEI program. Nathan Cofnas: Amy Wax will be sanctioned by@Penn: suspended for a year at half pay, stripped of her named chair, etc. Everything but termination. Below is the hearing board that originally found her guilty. It includes a sociologist who is director of the Center for Africana Studies (Camille Z. Charles) and an expert on “racism” (Raina Merchant). It also includes an anti-free speech activist, Sigal Ben-Porath, who was ironically the chair of Penn’s Committee on Open Expression. In her book, Free Speech on Campus, Ben-Porath wrote: “When some members of the campus community are effectively barred from speaking, when they avoid speaking their minds for fear of humiliation or ridicule, or when they do not feel that they belong or that they are appreciated, free speech is limited just as much as it can be limited by censorship.” I guess she is putting this theory into practice, protecting speech by censoring a lone conservative who somehow makes the 99% of Penn affiliates who accept woke orthodoxy feel like they don’t belong. Why was Penn so desperate to silence Amy? Well, for starters, because she was effective and made perfect sense. She destroyed the left’s agenda and messaging with ease. Take a look: Amy was punished for being fearless and for speaking the truth. We have also been shining a light on the dangerous and destructive DEI policies and how they’re destroying companies and organizations and putting people in dire situations. Revolver:
Imagine being an astronaut, saying goodbye to your family for an eight-day mission to the International Space Station, only to find yourself stuck there for two months—and counting—thanks to the DEI-driven blunders at Boeing. That’s the grim reality for two astronauts, and experts predict they might be stranded until sometime in 2025. This would be a massive PR disaster if it were getting the coverage it deserves. Instead of holding Boeing accountable for yet another screw-up—likely due to their twisted obsession with DEI initiatives over common sense, excellence, and safety—the story is barely making waves. Boeing’s PR team is likely doing its best to keep their name untarnished. But good luck with that. After all, their track record is in shambles, so this might be the final nail in the coffin for securing future contracts with NASA and the US government. Wall Street Silver:
Boeing Starliner could be junk and stuck at the Space Station permanently. NASA has lost confidence in the safety of the Starliner due to leaks and won’t allow astronauts to return on it. But Boeing installed software on Starliner that does not provide for automated undocking. They need a human inside of the Starliner to undock. But the problem is, there would be no way to get the astronaut back on the Space Station, the space suits are too bulky to fit thru the port. Boeing wants to upload new software while Starliner is in space, but NASA is worried it will fail and then brick Starliner forever, thus blocking one of only two ports where Dragon and others arrive and leave from. The two astronauts were only supposed to be on the space station for 8 days for this Starliner test flight and have now been there for 2 months. The most likely plan is for their return in February 2025 aboard a Dragon Crew capsule.
Meanwhile, Penn tried to buy Amy Wax’s silence to keep the whole story under wraps—but she wasn’t having any of it. Free Beacon:
The University of Pennsylvania tried to cut a deal with Amy Wax, the tenured law professor who endured years of disciplinary proceedings over her controversial remarks. The school offered to water down the sanctions against her if she agreed to stop discussing—and criticizing—her treatment at the hands of the university. She refused. So Penn announced Tuesday that it was suspending Wax for a year at half pay and stripping her of an endowed chair. The sanctions, which also include a permanent loss of summer pay, were immediately condemned by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), which framed them as a precedent-setting blow to academic freedom. “After today, any university under pressure to censor a controversial faculty member need only follow Penn’s playbook,” the group wrote in a statement. “Faculty nationwide may now pay a heavy price for Penn’s willingness to undercut academic freedom for all to get at this one professor.” But behind closed doors, the school was prepared to let Wax pay a much lower price—provided she keep her mouth shut about the two-and-a-half-year-long case that made Penn a pariah among academic freedom advocates and compounded the fallout of anti-Israel protests on campus. The quid pro quo was outlined in a draft settlement agreement presented to Wax in August and reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. That agreement—the product of months of negotiations between Penn and its embattled gadfly—would have let Wax keep her base salary during the course of her suspension and thrown in a one-time payment of $50,000, partially offsetting the loss in summer pay. In return, Wax would agree “not to disparage the University” over the two-year-long process to which it subjected her. She would also waive her right to sue Penn or disclose the evidence she had presented in internal hearings to clear her name, including testimony from former students who called into question the charges against her. Wax refused to sign the non-disparagement clause, she told the Free Beacon. The result was a breakdown in settlement talks and the imposition of the harsher sanctions originally approved by former Penn president Liz Magill, who signed off on the pay cuts for Wax one month before she defended the rights of professors and students to call for the annihilation of the Jewish state.
What’s really ironic is that these are the same people who claim to be the self-appointed guardians of precious “democracy.” The ones who censor the truth simply because it doesn’t align with their political beliefs and are willing to destroy a good professor’s life and career for daring to speak out about what’s really going on. These aren’t defenders of “democracy”; they’re Marxist militants who want to control thoughts and words through intimidation and threats—all while hiding behind the facade of “love and unity.” It’s a racket, plain and simple. But no matter what they try, they won’t silence powerhouses like Amy Wax and others like her. Read more at: Revolver.news
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