After making a series of disturbingly racist remarks, University of Pennsylvania law school professor Amy Wax is finally being punished, NBC News has reported. But her consequences in relation to her statements beg the question: Is she getting punished enough?
Wax will be suspended for one-year at half-pay, along with receiving other sanctions as well as a public reprimand for going full-on white supremacist in her rhetoric at the school over the years.
In the role, Wax has stated that: she had never seen a Black student do well at her Ivy League law school, “not all cultures are created equal,” “our country will be better off with more whites and fewer nonwhites” and that America would benefit fit from “fewer Asians and less immigration.”
Most shockingly, Wax invited white nationalist Jared Taylor to her class entitled “Conservative and Political Legal Thought” to share his beliefs with her students. Taylor, according to Philadelphia Magazine, is the author of “American Renaissance” which addresses topics like “race differences,” “Third World immigration” and “anti-white racism.”
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Taylor wrote an essay about the tragedy, in which he wrote, “Blacks and white are different. When Blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western civilization — any kind of civilization — disappears.”
This decision, along with Wax’s history of discriminatory remarks, had been a problem at Penn for a while. Theodore W. Ruger, the former dean of Penn’s Carey Law School, said that Wax was removed from teaching any required courses at the university back in 2018.
Ruger shared that Wax once told a Black student that she had only become a double Ivy “because of affirmative action” and that “Mexican men are more likely to assault women.”
Wax’s defense, which was told to the New York Sun, was that these allegations were “fabricated and tacked on as a cover for penalizing me for standard-issue, conservative anti-‘woke’ opinions and factual observations that are not allowed on campus.”
Wax also said that she feared campuses like Penn are “raising a generation of students who can’t deal with disagreement.” Of course, free speech and the need for tough discourse are the typical excuses racists use to get away with vile behavior.
Though the university has not fired her or taken her tenure away, Wax’s suspension is set to begin in the 2025-2026 academic year.