Zack De Piero, who taught English at Pennsylvania State University for several years, was pushed out of his job in 2022 for opposing race-based grading and opposing “diversity” training that tells white people that they are inherently racist. De Piero is white.
With the help of the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism, he is suing the school for racial discrimination, specifically for being “singled out for ridicule and humiliation because of the color of his skin.”
According to the lawsuit, various of the defendants told De Piero that “outcomes alone — regardless of the legitimacy of methods of evaluation, mastery of subject matter, or intentions — demonstrate whether a faculty member’s actions are racist or not. . . . The logic of Defendants’ demands required that De Piero also penalize students academically on the basis of race.”
The filing details a litany of such conduct.
De Piero told Fox News: “I think there is almost a religious, cult-like environment where you had this original sin. In this case, I’m white. I need to repent for that sin. . . . I think they were waging a psychological war campaign and they’re trying to break people. And they almost broke me. But they didn’t.”
The U.S. Supreme Court took fifty years to rule against discriminatory, race-based university admissions. Let’s hope it doesn’t take another fifty years to rule against the travesties of racist grading, racist “diversity training,” and allied diversity-equity-inclusion racist policies doublespeakingly designed to mandate racism in the name of antiracism.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
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In law school we were assigned a number which identified the test taker but the professors were not provided with the conversion table. They assigned the grade to the number and the school administration did the conversion and gathering and then informed the students of their grades.
It was thus on results and nothing else that the grades were assigned. No possibility of prejudice or favoritism. There were never claims of bias as its possibility was eliminated.
Would there be objection to adopting such a system for determining performance in the ivory towers generally. I would hope not.
Bias can be eliminated and merit determined if one actually desires to do so.
Racism in the name of anti-racism calls to mind the rationalization of Lieutenant William Lewis Calley, Jr. , who justified the Mai Lai massacre as that “it was necessary to destroy the village in order to save the village.”
He was a war criminal with the same moral underpinnings as those that are running the DEI movement.