I Had to Watch ‘White Teachers Are a
Problem’ Video. Now I’m Suing My Employer.
Daily Signal,
by
Zack De Piero
Original Article
Posted By: Judy W.,
7/3/2023 9:01:41 AM
I’m a white writing professor, and apparently, that’s a problem. That was the unmistakable message sent to me at Pennsylvania State University—and that’s why I’m suing the school.
In November 2020, nearly half a year after George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis, I was subjected to a video titled “White Teachers Are a Problem” for a monthly professional development meeting for writing faculty.
The video’s featured speaker, Asao Inoue, is a self-described practitioner of anti-racism. Not an obscure one, either: About a year prior, Inoue gave the Chair’s Address at a prestigious writing studies research conference and declared, “White people can perpetuate white supremacy by being present.Your body perpetuates racism.”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 7/3/2023 9:09:16 AM (No. 1504801)
Huge numbers of blacks living in a state of perpetual racial fury, hate of white people controlling their every thought, every action.
I doubt that the most virulent white racist of the last century was so vicious.
This is not acceptable behavior in a public space, ever.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Ruhn 7/3/2023 9:21:35 AM (No. 1504815)
The author lost me after he wrote: "...after George Floyd's murder".
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That's right #2, the left has been successful in changing the narrative. The autopsy found GF had a lethal dose of fentanyl.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MaxWedge 7/3/2023 9:36:55 AM (No. 1504825)
That's where I stopped reading also #2.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Kate318 7/3/2023 9:44:45 AM (No. 1504830)
The only way this madness stops is when people have the courage to say no.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 7/3/2023 9:55:00 AM (No. 1504839)
Mr, De Piero, I hope your lawsuit against Penn is successful, to the tune of 100 million dollars! The ONLY thing the Left understands is money & power, and depriving Penn of 100M would surely send a LOUD message. So many parallels between you and the Gibson family in their suit against Oberlin: you're white, you're being unfairly targeted because of your race, and Penn, like Oberlin, is doubling down on its evil. Good luck sir, I hope to be reading about your success in the coming weeks/months. PAUPERIZE THEM!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
seamusm 7/3/2023 9:57:06 AM (No. 1504842)
I wish this teacher luck - he is going to need it - especially if the jurors are inner city citizens. I somewhat get the pent-up Black anger. And I absolutely understand White America's blindness to the sins of our forefathers. But murdering your neighbors and robbing your local stores is a rather short-sighted way to take what you think you are owed. Reparations may sound good to Dem politician race-baiters and those 'house slaves' who elect them. But taking any significant amount of money out of the pockets of those whose only guilt is being born white and whose ancestors had nothing to do with America's historic racism won't fly. Our Supreme Court just ruled that reverse racism is illegal and I am certain that the Court will soon rule that ALL set-asides and form of favoring Blacks will also be forbidden. Right now we are watching the melt-down in France with having allowed in huge numbers of Islamic immigrants yet without ever having required cultural assimilation. Our education system has done the same to America itself with failing to teach our Black citizens American values, history, and even our English language. Frankly, I am pessimistic of any political solution. Only Jesus is able to save us.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 7/3/2023 10:00:03 AM (No. 1504843)
FTA: " . . . nearly half a year after George Floyd’s murder."
George Floyd was not murdered. He was a no-good bum - - a career criminal - - who died from massive overdoses of narcotic drugs. No mob-rule, kangaroo court can change that.
President Trump should pardon Officer Chauvin - - give him a medal for his courageous service - - and arrange for massive reparations for him.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
janjan 7/3/2023 10:14:56 AM (No. 1504858)
It was a matter of time before the White Hatred movement would start cracking at the seams. No amount of liberal white guilt will ever suffice. No number of taxpayer funded giveaways will ever be enough. The answer is to not participate. I don’t care what minorities think of my skin color. I don’t bow down to anybody.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Rathaven 7/3/2023 10:17:04 AM (No. 1504862)
How can we help?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Right Time 7/3/2023 11:13:00 AM (No. 1504921)
Stopped reading after the first sentence. George Floyd WAS NOT MURDERED. He OD'd on self-administered drugs
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Msquared112 7/3/2023 11:24:19 AM (No. 1504940)
The bizarre thing about black anti-white racists is that they claim that it proves you are a white racist if you deny you are a racist. That nutty idea is as racist as it comes, but it's not surprising given the lack of logic coming from the "anti-racists".
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Luandir 7/3/2023 12:49:29 PM (No. 1505004)
Imagine the uproar from all quarters if black faculty were subjected to a video titled. "Black Teachers Are a Problem." This is the fruit of 45 years of race-based hires. The beneficiaries are using institutional power to act out their own grievances.
I hope Mr. De Piero wins a big payday and takes a position in a more free-thinking state.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
AntiStatist 7/3/2023 1:07:26 PM (No. 1505019)
#7, capitalizing “black”, why?
I noticed that you didn’t capitalize “white”, and properly so.
Since whites outnumber blacks by 5 to 1, perhaps white should be all-caps (WHITE) to denote the proportion.
No, that would be insidious, like capitalizing “black”.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
chumley 7/3/2023 1:26:02 PM (No. 1505030)
I am not a teacher, but I am white and I'm the problem. I've spent my life being productive, paying my bills, raising every child I ever produced, staying out of trouble with the law and trying not to bother anyone. Darn me anyway.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
czechlist 7/3/2023 1:42:05 PM (No. 1505041)
UPenn will likely file a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP)lawsuit to drag out any litigation and drain Zack of his life savings
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
dbdiva 7/3/2023 2:23:40 PM (No. 1505077)
The author of this article stated that he taught at Penn State but several commenters have mentioned the University of Pennsylvania as the culprit. Did I misread something??
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
johnMW 7/3/2023 2:25:26 PM (No. 1505080)
#16... this is not UPenn.
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#16—UPenn is the University of Pennsylvania, founded by Ben Franklin. This teacher was at Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) a very different school. UPenn has its own problems, such as appointing Biden as a professor and paying him handsomely, apparently in exchange for appointing UPenn's ex-president to an ambassadorship and favors to board members. However, it should not be blamed for this case.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
mc squared 7/3/2023 3:06:14 PM (No. 1505125)
Don't dismiss the author's point. Using the term 'murder' ICW Floyd's death is as common as saying the US is a Democracy, or calling the 9-11 attack a 'tragedy'
'Words mean things'
Rush Limbaugh
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
DHorne123 7/3/2023 3:25:30 PM (No. 1505133)
Hope he takes “State Penn” for 200,000,000!!!!!
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Encore 7/3/2023 5:22:54 PM (No. 1505201)
I stopped reading after “your body perpetuates racism”. That’s got to be the height of insecurity.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
mifla 7/4/2023 10:14:30 AM (No. 1505617)
Back in the 80s, it was mandatory at our company (because of federal contracts) to attend periodic AA workshops. Everyone one of them had a component where the bad guy was the white male. The workshop to get rid of stereotypes had stereotyped white males.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 7/4/2023 4:46:04 PM (No. 1505861)
Remove taxpayer money from all levels of education. Privatize, let customers choose their ideology, or lack thereof. As long as the government can take taxpayer money, the government will use that money to destroy the lives of the taxpayers. Restoring lawfulness, public morality, Freedom and limited government requires shutting off the money that is going to our illegitimate totalitarian socialist government.
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Good -- the more lawsuits against this kind of thing the better.