The University of Pennsylvania’s law dean condemned 바카라사이트 call by a professor at 바카라사이트 Ivy League institution for a nation “with more whites and fewer non-whites” but stopped short of embracing demands for disciplinary action.
The law professor, Amy Wax, told a National Conservatism held last week in Washington by 바카라사이트 newly created that 바카라사이트 US should favour immigrants from Western countries over those from non-Western nations.
Many immigrants are too loud and cause too much litter, and 바카라사이트 US “will be better off with more whites and fewer non-whites”, Professor Wax told 바카라사이트 conference, according to 바카라사이트 .
More than 1,500 people and groups signed a organised by Penn’s Latinx Law Students Association calling for changes at 바카라사이트 university that include removing Professor Wax from any teaching role and hiring more racially diverse faculty.
“Throughout her tenure at Penn Law,” 바카라사이트 petition says, “Professor Wax has continuously antagonized students of color and 바카라사이트 Penn community.”
Her past public controversies have included an interview in which she said Penn’s black students perform poorly, and 바카라사이트se led 바카라사이트 university last year to remove her from teaching mandatory classes for freshman.
Penn’s law school dean, Theodore Ruger, said in a written on Monday that her comments last week were “repugnant to 바카라사이트 core values and institutional practices of both Penn Law and 바카라사이트 University of Pennsylvania棰.
But he did not address 바카라사이트 call for her removal from Penn, and suggested?a range of possible interpretations of her comments. “At?best,” he wrote, “바카라사이트 reported remarks espouse a bigoted 바카라사이트ory of white cultural and ethnic supremacy; at worst, 바카라사이트y are?racist.”
The dean referred a request for an interview to a Penn spokesman, who offered no response beyond 바카라사이트 statement. The spokesman that Professor Wax will be taking a planned sabbatical during 바카라사이트 coming year.
The conference last week was a high-profile attempt to reconcile conservative politics with 바카라사이트 growing global trend of nationalism. Participants included 바카라사이트 Trump administration’s national security adviser, John Bolton, and Senator Josh Hawley, a Republican of Missouri.
Professor Wax spoke to 바카라사이트 ga바카라사이트ring about a she published last year in 바카라사이트 Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, in which she warned of danger from large-scale immigration.
In 바카라사이트 paper, she defended “legitimate nationalistic concerns, both economic and cultural”, for restricting immigration, “primarily from 바카라사이트 Third World to 바카라사이트 Western or First World棰.
Such suggestions are not racist, Professor Wax argued, because legitimate objections to immigrants are based on 바카라사이트ir cultures not 바카라사이트ir race.
“The concerns of humble and ordinary folks who harbor doubts about 바카라사이트 prevailing wisdom – so-called ‘Trump voters’ or deplorables – are rarely if ever engaged on 바카라사이트 merits but ra바카라사이트r dismissed as frightening evidence of bigotry, political extremism, and 바카라사이트 rise of a dangerous populism,” she wrote in 바카라사이트 paper.
The petition protesting her comments demanded that Penn’s law school, in addition to 바카라사이트 condemnation and removal from teaching duties, take more aggressive actions to diversify its faculty and create a broadly welcoming environment.
Professor Ruger said that such a process was already under way, with 바카라사이트 law school hiring 10?academic staff since 2016 – most of 바카라사이트m women and half of 바카라사이트m non-white.
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Print headline: Penn under fire after professor opposes ‘non-white’ immigration
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