University professor ‘told to inflate grades of hispanic and black students’
University professor ‘told to inflate grades of hispanic and black students’
Zack De Piero is suing Pennsylvania State University over claims he and other white staff were racially discriminated against
This. Let's not bandy propaganda as news.
Yeah people see their favourite colour and suddenly pretend no news can be biased.
This article itself is pretty factual, to be fair. All the quotes are taken verbatim from the lawsuit, which you can read here:
https://www.fairforall.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Zach-De-Piero-Complaint.pdf
That doesn't mean that De Peiro's claims are true, of course, but the Telegraph does appear to have reported them accurately.
Why do you believe it’s factual simply from reading the complaint? The Daily Telegraph does no follow-ups, interviews, or fact-checking (what we in the business might call “journalism”). It simply reports on the complaint and cowardly allows you to draw your own conclusions.
So we must ask: why did a right-wing propaganda outlet report this so uncritically? They have a well-established lack of interest in journalism. So what purpose was served by publishing this article and in this way?
This is why I posted it’s a bad source, and this is the problem with bad sources. Even the “factual” articles they publish are purposefully misleading at best… and total misrepresentations at worst.
he alleges he was targeted by a bullying and harassment complaint and lower performance reviews.
…Yeah, dude seems sus. Sounds like he’s mad at the school because they cracked down on his own racism.
Right? Also this:
The filing claims he was told to attend “anti-racist workshops” and it was suggested he might have mental health issues.
Talk about burying the lede.
Ah yes... The Telegraph. That well known bastion of right wing Bullshit
I’m not sure I have an opinion on affirmative action generally, but it strikes me that it will be difficult if not impossible for the two camps to find middle ground on the issue - because ensuring equality of treatment and equity of outcomes are probably mutually exclusive.
Said differently, I can see how you can either truly treat everyone the same, or try to make sure everyone has equality of opportunity/outcome, and to be sure both are individually a reasonable goal on paper.
The problem is, they can’t both be true. Either everyone has the same treatment, which doesn’t solve the problem of some people starting the race far behind the starting line; or the system tries to compensate for disadvantages, which inherently means that not all participants are afforded the same treatment.
Hard to see how to resolve that deadlock.
That is quite patronizing towards those students. Basically saying that they aren't as smart as white people. Oh how all this woke crap comes full circle
We don't even know if this claim is true.