Washington Free Beacon
The University of Pennsylvania tried to cut a deal with Amy Wax, the tenured law professor who endured years of disciplinary proceedings over her controversial remarks. The school offered to water down the sanctions against her if she agreed to stop discussing—and criticizing—her treatment at the hands of the university. She refused.
So Penn announced Tuesday that it was suspending Wax for a year at half pay and stripping her of an endowed chair. The sanctions, which also include a permanent loss of summer pay, were immediately condemned by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), which framed them as a precedent-setting blow to academic freedom.
“After today, any university under pressure to censor a controversial faculty member need only follow Penn’s playbook,” the group wrote in a statement. “Faculty nationwide may now pay a heavy price for Penn’s willingness to undercut academic freedom for all to get at this one professor.” More
They’re not ‘strange’ ideas – they’re communist ideas. Never forget: communism ALWAYS leads to genocide. ALWAYS.
Reads like Ms. Wax has a very strong case against Penn.
Penn’s (and Magill’s) hypocrisies are obvious, apparent, and noisily on display.
It would be refreshing to see Ms. Wax relieve Penn of some $100 Million or more.
(I find lawyers, for the most part, a completely repugnant lower life-form, but, apparently, there are some with a sense of morality.)
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
It sounds like the big one in Penn’s minds was actually Wax pointing out that DEI is a failure.