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Are students happy to go in debt to learn this?
Why is there no push back? students? parents? professors?
Are students happy to go in debt to learn this?
Why is there no push back? students? parents? professors?
Have you seen what has happened to any professor that has tried to challenge this? You are immediately excommunicated and tarred and feathered.
Wax has a bachelor’s degree from Yale College, a medical degree from Harvard, and a law degree from Columbia. But none of those was enough to exempt her from being on the receiving end of a full-fledged campaign to get her fired. Nor was arguing 15 cases before the Supreme Court on behalf of the Justice Department, but that’s beside the point.
Wax doesn’t fear being called racist, sexist, or xenophobic, probably because she’s been called many of those names before. Instead of retreating to the safety of her tenure when things get tough, she doubles down—demanding debate, evidence, and accountability.
Students and colleagues alike have attacked Wax for making the apparently offensive case that traditional marriage values lead to better results for children, and for putting forth the radical argument that many of the country’s problems are a symptom of the breakdown of the “bourgeois culture” (the 1940s and ’50s way of life).
In making that argument, Wax addressed the fact that things weren’t perfect back then, but like clockwork, her critics called her “racist and classist” anyway.
The straw that really broke the camel’s back, however, happened when student activists searching for dirt on Wax unearthed a 2017 podcast interview she did with economist and Brown University professor Glenn Loury.
In the interview, Wax said this when addressing the issue of affirmative action: “I don’t think I’ve ever seen a black student graduate in the top quarter of [my] class, and rarely, rarely, in the top half. I can think of one or two students who scored in the first half of my required first-year Civil Procedure course.”
Grades at the University of Pennsylvania are name-blind (meaning the instructor covers up students’ names prior to grading), so Wax says it’d be impossible to discriminate.
Critics jumped on her statement, interpreting it to mean “Amy Wax said black students can’t excel in law school.” Eventually, the University of Pennsylvania Law School relieved Wax of her teaching duties for first-year law students.
In a Nov. 8 speech at The Heritage Foundation, Wax talked about the fallout of her politically incorrect statements in depth, and put forth tangible ideas about how to counter a radical, identity-based grievance culture that’s now rampant in university life.
shtuff that the right wing propagandists are feeding you.
I'll add this, why assume the OP screen shot has anything to do with the left? Perhaps this is a thought experiment that has no political motivation. I suggest that there may be an excessively strong tendency to assume that every aspect of humanity and human behavior has to be motivated by either left or right wing agendas.
The track record of idiot part of left is quite strong, so I tend to believe these types of things unless they are proven wrong.
d6rB saysScience should be neither L or R, but a search for objective truth. Idiocy of right is less visible, since their stupidity is less acceptable in media and so it is much muzzled.The track record of idiot part of left is quite strong, so I tend to believe these types of things unless they are proven wrong.
Rightist Science?
This is why Universities need to replace "Professional Administrators" with Education PhDs with actual Faculty from the Engineering Department.