The Inconvenience of Truth

From Ivy League professor Amy Wax:

“Here’s a very inconvenient fact, Glenn: I don’t think I’ve ever seen a black student graduate in the top quarter of the class, and rarely, rarely, in the top half,” Wax said. “I can think of one or two students who scored in the top half of my required first-year course.” She said the class has 89 to 95 students per year, “so I’m going on that because a lot of this data is a closely guarded secret.”

Ruger said Wax violated school policy by mentioning student grades to back up her argument. 

Alumni circulated an online petition this week urging Ruger to take action after Wax’s comments resurfaced. The professor’s claims are “in clear violation of the terms and spirit of Penn Law’s anonymous grading policy, and compromise the law school’s assurance that grades are maintained by the Registrar under strict scrutiny,” the petition says. 

Wax’s views on race ignited backlash even before her interview with Loury. In August, she wrote an op-ed published in The Philadelphia Inquirer that declared, “All cultures are not equal. Or at least they are not equal in preparing people to be productive in an advanced economy.”

Wax declined to comment to HuffPost. She has defended her statements in the past, and doubled down on her argument, asserting that people seek to move to countries with “superior” bourgeois values.

“I don’t shrink from the word, ‘superior.’ Everyone wants to go to countries ruled by white Europeans,” she said.

Wax appears to be upset that the Black students being let into the law program of U.Penn is doing so under the guise of affirmative action and not by pure merit. Facts are facts and it seems most people don't like hearing the obvious.

It got me thinking about Hollywood and this new inclusion clause that actress Frances McDormand was yammering about during the Oscars. Essentially re-integrating affirmative action in stories we tell. While it is an incredible act of generosity to let us coloreds sit at the big bossman's table, I seem to feel a twinge of...patronization that implies I require their charity. Perhaps guilt is a great motivator of change. And obviously this shits on the face of Trump's America First campaign, but doesn't it seem by being inclusive now, you are excluding a certain demographic? White middle age men are angry. I mean, really pissed that they aren't on any list Hollywood offers. Wait, White middle aged heterosexual men are colossally fucked. The roles of beer drinking friend goes to...I dunno pick a name you can't pronounce on the Inclusion List. Just make sure it isn't John Smith.

Guess what a wildly swinging pendulum does? Swings two-fold back. Again, good sentiment, horrific results to follow.