Our higher education system is a mess of radical leftism. It's such an issue that graduating from college or university while still being conservative is considered something to brag about to the point of being a meme.
Universities play host to some of the most grotesque displays of racism and bigotry, and as is the case with leftist "social justice," it wears the mask of morality and "fairness." In truth, it's just discrimination, usually against white men, who are considered campus villains by brainwashed students and their professorial handlers.
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But white people aren't the only ones who get discriminated against. One of the other races that often gets the ol' collegiate middle finger is people of Asian persuasion. Doesn't matter which area you hail from, be it Japan, China, or Korea. If you remotely look like anyone from "K-Pop Demon Hunter," you're going to find yourself having a harder time than others.
On Wednesday, a bizarre case of discrimination against an Asian assistant professor popped up, this time at the Edwin L. Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University (SMU). Sean Wang was passed over for tenure, and according to him, it was due to his status — get this — as a white man.
According to the lawsuit, as reported by The Daily Caller, Wang noticed that he was recorded in SMU's human resources and equal employment opportunity as "White," which is something that those working in the office would obviously know:
“This misclassification was not a typographical error, i.e. clicking the wrong box for race, as ‘white’ was typed into the form, and Dr. Wang’s surname (Wang) and multiple face-to-face meetings made his ethnicity obvious.”
The complaint alleges that the misclassification created “false records that removed recognition of his minority status from official records.”
The implication here is that, by misclassifying Wang as white, SMU might more easily discriminate against him. If true, this would seem evidence of extreme anti-white bias at SMU.
The pattern goes a bit deeper. Wang isn't the only person who got passed over. In fact, anyone who isn't of Indian descent seems to be locked out of getting tenure, and Wang is alleging that this started happening once a specific professor arrived:
Wang, who is Chinese-American, alleges SMU’s Accounting Department “has had a systematic pattern of discrimination in tenure decision” since the arrival of Indian-origin professor Hemang Desai.
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Wang’s complaint clarifies his precise allegation: “Tenure decisions in the Accounting Department systematically treated candidates of Indian ancestry more favorably than non-Indian candidates who met the same standard. But for Dr. Wang not being of Indian ancestry (he is Chinese/East-Asian), SMU would have granted him tenure.”‘
Wang's lawsuit isn't the first, either. Another tenure candidate named Mina Pizzini also filed a lawsuit against SMU for the same reason, but this was settled out of court.
While this is a big issue and suggests widespread discrimination of every race by Indians within the administration, the method by which they denied Wang is disturbing in and of itself. Wang is a minority by every metric, and according to The Daily Caller report, his work is far more than sufficient to receive tenure. So, if what Wang is alleging is true, then the administration had to fall back on purposefully mislabelling Wang as "white" to pass him over and reward it to people of Indian nationality instead.
As grotesque as that is, we have to start at the bottom of this issue.
Why is everyone okay with white people being passed over because they're white, and why is that not considered discrimination in and of itself?
Has our education system become so racist that no one bats an eye when white people are denied advancement, and have they become so comfortable with it that administrations will claim someone has white skin just to cheat them out of something?
Let me be very clear. Even if Wang is mistaken and it absolutely was an error that he was labeled as white, the fact that he was passed over because the "Caucasian" box was checked is, in itself, unforgivable. Whoever made that policy should be sued and tossed out of the college.
Sadly, that's not how our higher education system works nowadays. If this is true, then it was likely agreed upon by administrators pretty high up the ladder, and nothing will ever happen to them. In fact, they may very well receive more than a few backpats from their peers.
Higher education continues to be one of the most absurd and despicable places in America.
