‘Flagrantly Unprofessional’: Penn Law Professor Who Said America Would be ‘Better Off’ Without Nonwhites Suspended for Racist Remarks But Will Remain Employed

A University of Pennsylvania law professor who once said the U.S. would be “better off with more whites and fewer nonwhites” was suspended this week following a two-year investigation into her long litany of incendiary remarks and incidents. Amy Wax, 71, appealed the 2023 decision by an academic review board to sanction her for “a history of sweeping, blithe, and derogatory generalizations about groups by race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and immigration status,” as well as “making discriminatory and disparaging statements targeted at specific racial, ethnic, and other groups with which many students identify” both in and outside of her classroom. But while the case was under appeal, Wax continued to court controversy. University of Pennsylvania Professor Amy Wax said ‘Blacks’ and Asians are resentful of ‘Western peoples’ outsized achievements.” (Photo: YouTube screenshot/Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard) Last November, according to the Daily Beast, she invited white nationalist Jared Taylor to speak to her class on “Conservative and Political Legal Thought.” Taylor edits a publication that the Southern Poverty Law Center says “promotes pseudo-scientific studies and research that purport to show the inferiority of blacks to whites.” It wasn’t the first time Wax had invited Taylor to speak to...