Zack De Piero, a former English professor, claims that the university discriminated against him and violated his free speech rights when he complained about the school’s “race-based dogma and discrimination.” He resigned in August of last year.
This from survivethenews.com.
Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (FAIR) represents De Piero and says he was told to attend “antiracist” workshops for complaining about racial insults directed at white staff.
The lawsuit states, according to a report from the Daily Wire:
When he complained about the continuous stream of racial insult directed at White faculty in the writing department, the director of the Affirmative Action Office told him that ‘There is a problem with the White race,’ that he should attend ‘antiracist’ workshops ‘until you get it,’ and that he might have mental health issues.
De Piero says he was also told to ignore poor academic performances from black and Hispanic students for “social justice” and to be “antiracist.”
FAIR says that he was also told:
[T]o ‘penalize’ some students’ scores to ‘equalize outcomes on the basis of race.’
The suit alleges:
The logic of defendants’ demands required that DePiero also penalize students academically on the basis of race.
If, for example, students from East Asia or the Indian subcontinent excelled over other minority groups (who often had the same, if not lighter skin color), DePiero was asked to penalize them in order to equalize outcomes on the basis of race.
One of the training videos the professor was forced to watch was called White Teachers Are a Problem.
The complaint alleges:
Following the tragic murder of George Floyd in May 2020, the defendants’ ‘antiracist’ activism reached a new fever pitch.
His lawsuit cites emails from later that year, where defendants allegedly wrote:
[W]hite employees should ‘Stop talking’ and writing faculty members [should] ‘assure that all students see that white supremacy manifests itself in language and in writing pedagogy.’
The suit states:
Penn State’s bizarre brand of ‘antiracism’ condemns qualities like ‘objectivity’ as ‘white supremacy,’ and purports to celebrate people of color for being incapable of objective thought.
The common denominator at Penn State and among all defendants is the promotion of pejorative stereotypes on the basis of race, which have created a hostile environment not only for DePiero but for all faculty and students.
FAIR legal advocacy managing director Leigh Ann O’Neill told Inside Higher Ed:
The institutional intolerance that has become so prevalent in the academic space is extremely concerning to us and, you know, we want to champion someone like Zack, who has taken the brave and courageous step to stand up for his rights—and that translates to honoring the rights of his students to engage with … and receive the benefits from a full academic experience.
A Penn State system spokeswoman told the outlet that:
Penn State does not generally comment on pending litigation and that the university has repeatedly affirmed its active and ongoing commitment to diversity and equity, and made clear its goal to create an inclusive and respectful environment in which to live, work and study.
Final thoughts: As the pendulum swings—there was a day when the white race was supreme and then America was slowly growing toward racial equality. The Obama Transformation—which set the progress of racial equality back decades—now has America moving toward full discrimination against the white race.
I’m confident this will be one of President Trump’s many corrections upon his return to the White House—the pendulum will swing back toward racial equality, a healing will resume.
NOTE: Trump has already begun to end Obama’s divisiveness. Did you catch his recent statement about all living past presidents except himself are descendants of slave owners? Watch for it.
