State Sen. Anthony H. Williams called Penn Law professor Amy Wax’s latest anti-Asian comments “reprehensible and ugly."
Philadelphia-area lawmakers and advocates Thursday joined the rising chorus condemning the latest racist statements made by University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax, calling upon the school to revoke Wax’s tenure and scrutinize her employment.
Standing outside Penn’s Carey Law School Thursday, State Sen. Anthony H. Williams called Wax’s latest anti-Asian comments “reprehensible and ugly,” demanding that Penn no longer allow the professor to “hide behind the veil of tenure to spew her hateful speech,” and for the school to put the professor’s employment “on trial.”
“We stand for tenure,” Williams said. “We do not stand for hate speech.”
Wax — no stranger to controversy — most recently raised eyebrows and ire for her statements in December on a podcast interview with economist Glenn Loury, where she called the immigration of “Asian elites” into the United States problematic, later writing in a letter on Loury’s site that “the United States is better off with fewer Asians and less Asian immigration.”
“She does have a right to say that. The question is, does she have a right to say that as a professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania?” said Philadelphia City Councilmember David Oh, adding that “it’s important to call out” Penn and “to challenge them to live up to what they claim is the basis of this law school and this entire institution of...
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