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Penn Law rebukes professor who said U.S. would be 'better off with fewer Asians'
“Like all racist generalizations, Wax’s comments inflict harm by perpetuating stereotypes and placing differential burdens on Asian students, faculty, and staff,” the dean wrote.
Prof. Amy Wax of University of Pennsylvania Law School has been criticized for racist comments.Julio Sosa / The Daily Pennsylvanian
Jan. 5, 2022, 7:06 AM CST / Updated Jan. 6, 2022, 12:04 AM CST
By Brahmjot Kaur
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 United States is “better off with fewer Asians and less Asian immigration.”
The dean, Theodore Rugers, was responding to comments made by Amy Wax, a white law professor, in an interview last month.
“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.
“Like all racist generalizations, Wax’s recent comments inflict harm by perpetuating stereotypes and placing differential burdens on Asian students, faculty, and staff to carry the weight of this vitriol and bias.”
No punishment has been announced.
During a Dec. 20 interview on journalist Glenn Loury’s web show, Bloggingheads.tv, Wax criticized Asian immigration to the United States, warning of the “danger of the dominance of an Asian elite in this country.”
“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.
Wax did not respond to NBC News’ request for comment.