A White English professor who resigned from Pennsylvania State University at Abington after being asked to grade minority students differently has filed a federal reverse discrimination lawsuit.
was “individually singled out for ridicule and humiliation because of the color of his skin” during mandatory department meetings and left under pressure in August, according to the complaint filed this month in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
According to court documents, Penn State at Abington hired him in 2018 as a non-tenure-track assistant professor of English and composition. Located north of“Almost immediately upon beginning his employment at Penn State, defendants pressured DePiero to conform to their political viewpoints,” the complaint states.‘s department supervisor revealed faculty political affiliations on an app at a 2018 meeting and “loudly expressed concern and disbelief that [he] was not a registered Democrat.
The complaint says the same supervisor “instructed her writing faculty to teach that White supremacy exists in language itself, and therefore, that the English language itself is ‘racist.’”also penalize students academically on the basis of race” — for example, by lowering the grades of East Asian or Indian students who outperformed other minorities to “equalize outcomes on the basis of race.”
“They do not expect black or Hispanic students to achieve the same mastery of academic subject matters as other students and therefore insist that deficient performance must be excused,” the complaint states. “Accurate assessment of abilities, if it happens to show disparate performance among different racial groups, is therefore condemned as ‘racist.’”
The suit names Penn State, its Board of Trustees, its president, the Penn State at Abington chancellor and seven other current and former employees as defendants. It seeks an unspecified amount in punitive financial damages for Mr.
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