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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Amy wax - Caught on Camera

'Unmasking, Naming, and Shaming': This Academic Freedom Group Is Pushing for Campus Censorship

Public records obtained by City Journal show the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom has taken a bizarrely censorial approach to its mission.

Reason

Does Denying Hamas Committed Sexual Violence on 10/7 Constitute "Criticism of Israel's Treatment of Palestinians?"

Federal judge Timothy Savage seems to think so.

Reason

Taylor Swift's new album has everyone seeing orange: An exploration of the color

Taylor Swift's new album announcement has everybody seeing orange

The Independent UK

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No Preliminary Injunctions Against Penn's Sanctions on Prof. Amy Wax

"[W]hatever harm she claims, it is not imminent, irreparable harm. Her damages, if any, are monetary damages."

Reason

Extremist who trained GOP poll watchers will speak at Washington event with two rightwingers

Steve Sailer to appear alongside a ‘proponent of scientific racism’ and a law professor suspended for ‘racist’ remarks

The Guardian - US

Some Cancellations are Justified

Whether a person deserves to be "cancelled" for saying awful things depends on the nature of what they said and the nature of their job.

Reason

UPenn professor invites white nationalist to speak at college for second time in two years

Amy Wax, who is currently being sanctioned for racist comments, invited white supremacist Jared Taylor to speak to her students

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Republican executive blogged about ‘conversion therapy’ for extremist group

Mark Trammell wrote posts in 2013 and 2014 for Liberty Counsel, a group on a ‘crusade to strip LGBTQ people of their rights’

The Guardian - US

When a professor makes obnoxious remarks on race and culture, is it a matter of academic freedom?

UPenn law professor Amy Wax is upping the ante on obnoxious public remarks and almost daring the law school at which she teaches to punish her.

Chicago Sun-Times

Penn law dean seeks ‘major sanction’ against professor Amy Wax

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.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

UPenn professor tells Tucker Carlson ‘Blacks’ resent ‘Western peoples’ and India is a ‘s***hole’

‘I think there is just a tremendous amount of resentment and shame of non-Western peoples against Western peoples,’ says Professor Amy Wax

The Independent UK

Black women now lead 3 of Penn’s prestigious law journals. They talk about what other change they’d like to see

PHILADELPHIA — When Chayla Sherrod learned she had been selected as the next editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review — the oldest and one of the most prestigious law journals in the country — she was thrilled.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

More on Amy Wax and Penn Law School

I have an op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer on the controversy surrounding Professor Amy Wax at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. You can see more about the current controversy here. My focus on the op-ed is on whether there is or should be a hate speech exception to academic…

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Academic Freedom Alliance Letter to the University of Pennsylvania

The law school has initiated disciplinary hearings against Professor Amy Wax stemming from her appearance on Glenn Loury's podcast

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Amy Wax and the Problem of Right-Wing Double Standards on Immigration

Her support for racially discriminatory immigration policies is just the tip of a much broader iceberg of conservative support for discrimination in immigration policy of a kind they would reject in other contexts..

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A Letter From A Current UPenn Law Student In Support Of Amy Wax

Recently, Philadelphia Councilman David Oh wrote a letter urging the University of Pennsylvania to review Professor Amy Wax's "role with the university." More recently, PennLaw Dean Ted Ruger announced that he will begin a formal sanction process against Wax. Erich Makarov, a 3L at UPenn who was in Wax's class,…

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