The dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School criticized comments by a professor at the school as 'thoroughly anti-intellectual and racist' for suggesting that the U.S. is “better off with fewer Asians and less Asian immigration.”
"thoroughly anti-intellectual and racist" for suggesting that the United States is “better off with fewer Asians and less Asian immigration.”
“Once again, Amy Wax has, through her thoroughly anti-intellectual and racist comments denigrating Asian immigrants, underscored a fundamental tension around harmful speech at American universities,” Rugers wrote in a statement. “If you go into medical schools, you’ll see that Indians, South Asians are now rising stars. In medicine, they’re sort of the new Jews, I guess, but these diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives are poisoning the scientific establishment and the medical establishment now,” said Wax, who is Jewish.Loury, a professor of social sciences at Brown University, attempted to defend Asian Americans by invoking the model minority myth.
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