Amy Wax
Posted on 03/20/2018 10:11:15 AM PDT by grundle
Amy Wax, a professor who teaches at University of Pennsylvania law school, said the school has lower admission standards for blacks than for whites.
Her claim is backed up by this New York Times article:
A 2009 Princeton study showed Asian-Americans had to score 140 points higher on their SATs than whites, 270 points higher than Hispanics and 450 points higher than blacks to have the same chance of admission to leading universities.
Since University of Pennsylvania is an Ivy League school, if falls under that category of “leading universities.” The SAT (for admission to undergraduate school) is not the same as the LSAT (for admission to law school), but the basic principle of having different admission standards for different races is the same.
The school punished professor Wax for her statement by banning her from teaching first year classes, but the school has refused provide any proof that her statement was false.
Black Lives Matter said they will start disrupting classes if the school does not fire her. In my opinion, a much better response would have been for Black Lives Matter to challenge professor Wax to a debate on the subject.
In fact, by threatening to disrupt classes instead of challenging professor Wax to a debate, Black Lives Matter has just proved that professor Wax’s claim is correct. Anyone who is truly qualified to get into an Ivy League law school would rather participate in a debate than disrupt classes.
Black Lives Matter has unintentionally confirmed that professor Wax’s statement is true.
... and it doesn’t matter one whit, because race and emotion trump logic.
Black lives matter. Actually the don’t matter to me if they are affiliated with BLM.
Sure would hate to think your case before a jury is being presented by someone without the academic horsepower to win!
If BLM actually shows up to protest, they’ll probably have to ask directions. Not like their rent-a-mob has frequented that campus much, I’d wager... reduced admission standards notwithstanding.
The article doesn’t say whether they were going to disrupt classes at the Law School, where Prof. Wax teaches, or at the UPenn undergraduate school.
If at the Law School, such disruption would be trespass if performed by non-Law School students, and should result in discipline. It’s not even a demonstration at their own school.
If these are UPenn Law Students, they’ve proved Prof. Wax’s case (not that any sane person needs convincing).
Any black person with an ounce of self respect should be INSULTED by the very concept of affirmative action.
Professor punished for stating demonstrable truth.
Oh, Princeton and Ivy League, how far you have fallen!
Great statement!
Membership in that organization should be punishable by imprisonment.
“I don’t shrink from the word, ‘superior,'” she told the paper, adding that “everyone wants to come to the countries that exemplify” these values and that “everyone wants to go to countries ruled by white Europeans.”
But Wax told the paper her perspective isn’t meant to imply that whites are superior.
“Bourgeois values aren’t just for white people,” she told the paper. “The irony is: Bourgeois values can help minorities get ahead.”
Someone of Wax’s intellectual pedigree certainly isn’t blind to the fact that her views aren’t the most popular at what the school paper called “elite, Ivy League universities,” which Wax added can be “totally clueless, out of touch and oblivious.”
But that doesn’t mean she believes that western, European governments are perfect: “It’s partly what gets the left in trouble,” she told the Daily Pennsylvanian, “to tar everything that’s good with some of the crimes that undoubtedly have been committed.”
“If BLM actually shows up to protest, they’ll probably have to ask directions.”
They’d never find the library.
“...but the basic principle of having different admission standards for different races is the same.”
That would explain how Obama and Michelle got into law school.
Clarence Thomas often says that one of the turning points in the development of his conservative politics was his realization that affirmative action made his Yale law degree worthless.
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