Penn Law's dean calls professor's comments 'anti-intellectual' and 'racist' after she said the US is 'better off with fewer Asians'
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The dean at one of the country's top law schools is calling comments from a professor at the university "racist" and "anti-intellectual" after she said the influx of "Asian elites" in the US is dangerous and problematic.
Theodore Rugers, the dean at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, issued a statement Monday about comments law professor Amy Wax made during an interview on December 19 with Glenn Loury, a Brown University professor who hosts weekly conversations online about race and inequality.
"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 said in an online statement.
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