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14 Jan, 5 tweets, 2 min read
This man said law deans shouldn't talk about racism and George Floyd's murder. He regularly attacks women philosophers. He now defends @pennlaw keeping Amy Wax after she said there are "too many Asians" in the U.S. Next he says I'm not fit for my job. Huh?
leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2022/01…
Then there are Mr. Leiter's repeated blogs and Tweets supporting a lawsuit against Yale by a graduate student who now has a website with the domain name wokekkk .com
620 philosophers signed this letter, linked to in a story in the New York Times. This just about sums the situation up.
sites.google.com/site/september…
A few years ago this prominent African American philosophy professor at Yale explained why minorities are marginalized in his field. This behavior sadly continues. Someone needs to stand up to it.
dailynous.com/2015/11/18/a-r…
More from Christopher J. Lebron here. A fascinating book.
We either confront the problem of racism or we ignore it. Lebron and others are calling for us to confront it.
global.oup.com/academic/produ…

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15 Jan
Chauvin was recently indicted for this crime in 2017. Minneapolis officials knew about it then, but didn't fire him. He like a racist professor had job security equivalent to tenure. George Floyd would be alive today if city officials had done their jobs.
mprnews.org/story/2020/11/…
Some people feel (wrongly) that a racist professor has a right to a job because of tenure. Can we at least agree that racist or violent police officers don't have tenure? Minneapolis knew about Chauvin and still kept him on the streets until he killed George Floyd.
Rules for dismissal of a Minneapolis police officer are complex and make removal next to impossible. Who drafts the rules? The police union. What other group of employees gets to draft rules for this own dismissal with little pushback from the employer? Not many. This is corrupt.
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13 Jan
This bias case is against the same University where Amy Wax got to keep a $300K+ job after saying Black students are inferior and there are "too many Asians."
Another reason for @POTUS to cut ties with @PennBiden and reconsider the Gutmann nomination.
news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-re…
Penn is not alone. U. Minnesota was sued over sexual harassment, discrimination and retaliation in its Music School. A male professor playing the FMK game during graduate student oral examinations, a department head commenting on what's under a female professor's skirt and more .
Reliable sources say that the #MeToo plaintiff in the Minnesota case is seriously considering running for Congress as an independent candidate. We need to fix some laws in this Country.
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12 Jan
Nietzsche’s defense of slavery was extreme even in his day. He also contemptuously used the term “slave revolt” for ideas he didn’t agree with. In 2022 a tenured professor uses that term for people who aren't like him and whom he disagrees with. Awful.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2022/01/b…
Philosophical justifications for slavery existed well into the 19th Century. Arguments premised on superiority and inferiority of human beings are being revived today by those fearful of diversification and democratization of ideas and government.
independent.co.uk/news/long_read…
Just a suggestion. A week after @pennlaw Professor Amy Wax said we have "too many Asians" in America, it might not be a good idea for a @UChicagoLaw professor to use the term "slave revolt" borrowed from a philosopher who justified slavery, to refer to people he disagrees with.
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11 Jan
Even after two Nobel Prize winning economists compared his Comfort Women paper to Holocaust denial, Mark Ramseyer persists with his defamatory claim that victims of wartime sex slavery were just prostitutes. Japanese scholars soundly repudiated this revisionism. Awful.
We demanded retraction of Ramseyer's Comfort Women paper because it didn't meet standards of peer review. IRLE Journal editor Johnathan Klick (@pennlaw) answered with a sneer saying our objections were "incoherent." With this blogger he then attacked us.
leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2021/02…
I'm not sure what is going on at @pennlaw but between IRLE editor Jonathan Klick insisting on publishing Ramseyer's defamatory Comfort Women article and attacking those of us who object, and Amy Wax, they might want to lay low in Asia for a while.
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9 Jan
Months ago I called out @UChicago law professor Brian Leiter for calling this woman's story a "hoax." I believe she was telling the truth. For months I have been attacked on Twitter and on a blog connected to a wokekkk .com domain name. Fed up!
msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/ya…
The blog host's Twitter account was suspended but Leiter continues to attack me on Twitter and in defamatory blog posts. Another person using a "skeptic" Twitter handle is doing the same. Their common theme is that this woman's story is a "hoax."
Ridiculous. These instances were not hoaxes.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2021/02/f…
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4 Jan
What now? Shall we go back to the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act?
This professor already made defamatory statements about the Black students in her law school.
Disgusting.

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Anyone who thinks there isn't discrimination against Asians in our wealthiest universities should listen to Amy Wax at @pennlaw. Exhibit A when there's a lawsuit.
I don't know, and don't care to know, much more Professor Wax. My family immigrated to America. If her ancestors were here before 1620, she could have something legitimate to say about the character and behavior of immigrants. Otherwise she should keep a lid on it.
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