DONATE HERE — AMY WAX GOFUNDME

A hypersensitive, emotionally stunted woke mob is coming for the legendary UPenn law professor Amy Wax.

Just look at how hypersensitive these students are—many are black and extremely touchy about potentially being affirmative action beneficiaries.

Someone went so far as to make a hilarious word cloud of all of their hurt feelings…

Sometimes, snowflakes can form a giant snow ball that can do some damage before it melts into a hysterical, harmless puddle.

Steve Sailer has more on this story:

At the U. of Pennsylvania Law School, Professor Amy Wax has been tenured since 2001. But the dean of the law school wants to take her tenure away because she keeps mentioning the existence and implications of affirmative action.

Dean Theodore Ruger [email him] is particularly enraged that Professor Wax refuses to lie[.]

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Ruger says that BIPOC students worry that they will be victimized by Wax’s animus without providing evidence of Wax victimizing them due to animus.

[VDare]

Amy Wax has become something of a cause celebre on the right—you can read an interview with her here…

Amy actually dared, unlike most conservatives, to posit that perhaps mass Asian immigration to this country is detrimental to the national interest, even if legal.

It turns out that law school dean Ted Ruger wants to strip her of tenure so he can eventually fire her:

Penn Law School Dean Ted Ruger requested that the Faculty Senate impose a “major sanction” against tenured Penn Law professor Amy Wax, an action that brings the University closer to potentially terminating the controversial academic.

In a 12-page report sent on June 23 to Faculty Senate Chair Vivian Gadsden, Ruger argued that Wax’s bigoted public statements and her behavior on campus and inside the classroom have violated multiple University standards for faculty, citing numerous student and faculty accounts of the conduct that he believes warrants disciplinary action. Ruger requested that the Faculty Senate convene a hearing board to conduct a full review of Wax’s conduct and ultimately impose a major sanction, in line with the University’s policy for punishing tenured faculty members.

“Academic freedom for a tenured scholar is, and always has been, premised on a faculty member remaining fit to perform the minimal requirements of the job,” Ruger wrote in the letter. “However, Wax’s conduct demonstrates a ‘flagrant disregard of the standards, rules, or mission of the University.’”

[The Daily Pennsylvanian]

Here is more from the mainstream media:

Controversial University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax, whose “racist speech” and inflammatory comments have long generated criticism, once allegedly suggested that it was “rational” to fear Black men in elevators and that Mexican males were more likely than other men to assault women.

Those were among several new accusations of “inappropriate conduct” against Wax contained in a 12-page letter sent to the Penn faculty senate by law school dean Ted Ruger, who wants the senate to convene a hearing and ultimately levy a major sanction against Wax, that could include suspension or firing.

Wax did not respond to a request for comment over the weekend.

In 2021, she invited “renowned white supremacist” Jared Taylor to speak to her class and then have lunch with her and students, according to the June 23 letter, which was obtained by the Philadelphia-based Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, a group that advocates for free speech, and posted on its website.

[Philadelphia Inquirer]

Thank God the heroes at FIRE are standing up for Amy:

As FIRE has written, if there are genuine concerns surrounding student confidentiality and Wax’s conduct, then Penn may enforce its policies as they relate to those issues. Indeed, in 2018, Penn did sanction Wax by removing her from teaching required courses following her comments about black students’ performance in her classes. But Penn cannot use those policies to pretextually punish Wax for her speech or political views — and much of Wax’s speech described in Ruger’s report concerns her views on issues of political importance. These views, while offensive to many, are undoubtedly protected.

Ruger’s report calls for imposing a “major sanction” against Wax, as stipulated in Penn’s policies and procedures: “termination; suspension; reduction in academic base salary; zero salary increases stipulated in advance for a period of four or more years.”

Universities should take pervasive complaints against faculty members seriously, and conduct falling outside of First Amendment protection — or, at a private university like Penn, protections promised by the university — should be dealt with in a clear and transparent manner. But faculty must not be penalized for their protected expression, especially protected expression outside the classroom.

Unfortunately, Penn is creating a chilling precedent bound to haunt other faculty members by muddying the waters to the point where Penn’s future sanctions against Wax inextricably tie to her protected expression. Allowing punishment for speech based on its viewpoint in even one instance threatens speech from across the political spectrum thereafter.

[FIRE]

Amy Wax has launched a GoFundMe to raise funds to pay for her legal defense. Unfortunately, she’s using GoFundMe instead of a patriotic, liberty-loving alternative like GiveSendGo. Donate here:

My name is Amy Wax. As one of the only openly conservative tenured professors in the Ivy League, I am now threatened with losing my job. Based on my allegedly “offensive” remarks off and on campus, my Dean Ted Ruger, has asked Penn to impose “major sanctions” by stripping me of tenure and my position at Penn Law. A sample of Ruger’s most recent accusations, littered with indignant invective and unsubstantiated and distorted claims, can be found linked to this recent Penn newspaper story.

[GoFundMe]

Revolver will keep you updated on this developing story.