Purdue Discrimination Case: Professor says "whites are lazy" and "just hire Chinese students."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Regardless of how much Purdue should pay to settle the case they need to fire the Asian racist immediately. There’s no place for his ilk in an American university.

He probably has tenure. Would that prevent his firing?

No. And he should have been fired years ago.

Universities are full of Asian racists and it’s good some of their racism is finally being exposed. Let them go back to their homogeneous societies and revel in their purported superiority.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A Japanese guy wanting to have Chinese people do the hard work is historically consistent.

Good point.

[Anonymous]

The Purdue Exponent with more from the trial and yesterday's proceedings.

Rusi Taleyarkhan is the fifth professor who testified he has heard Ishii make racist and sexist comments.

"Generally speaking, it's very difficult for me to say this for a colleague, but Caucasian Americans, men and women, especially women, are lazy and do half the work of someone from Asia," the tenured professor said he heard Ishii say.

Source: https://www.purdueexponent.org/campus/article_949abc42-bb17-11ee-be0e-177d90296843.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Purdue Exponent with more from the trial and yesterday's proceedings.

Rusi Taleyarkhan is the fifth professor who testified he has heard Ishii make racist and sexist comments.

"Generally speaking, it's very difficult for me to say this for a colleague, but Caucasian Americans, men and women, especially women, are lazy and do half the work of someone from Asia," the tenured professor said he heard Ishii say.

Source: https://www.purdueexponent.org/campus/article_949abc42-bb17-11ee-be0e-177d90296843.html

Man, there are a lot of trial attorneys who can really talk jurors into loosening the purse strings with witness statements like that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Regardless of how much Purdue should pay to settle the case they need to fire the Asian racist immediately. There’s no place for his ilk in an American university.

He probably has tenure. Would that prevent his firing?

No. And he should have been fired years ago.

Universities are full of Asian racists and it’s good some of their racism is finally being exposed. Let them go back to their homogeneous societies and revel in their purported superiority.

I transferred out of an econ program 20 years ago because the heavy bias against non-Asian students and rampant sexism among faculty made it miserable and I didn't see it getting better in grad school. Shifted to poli sci, attended a top law school, it worked out.

So now I'm watching this case with interest as a lawyer who is familiar with this kind of academic culture. Back then sexism in academia was so commonplace no one really cared (and would say "well they are from a different culture" about an Asian professor saying sexist things the way they'd also defend old white guy profs with "well he's from a different time") and people really did believe Asian students were harder working and smarter. It never would have occurred to any of us to sue. So I'll be curious to see where this goes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Regardless of how much Purdue should pay to settle the case they need to fire the Asian racist immediately. There’s no place for his ilk in an American university.

He probably has tenure. Would that prevent his firing?

No. And he should have been fired years ago.

Universities are full of Asian racists and it’s good some of their racism is finally being exposed. Let them go back to their homogeneous societies and revel in their purported superiority.

Uh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A Japanese guy wanting to have Chinese people do the hard work is historically consistent.

A Tokyo native that is supposed to be a racist hires only Chinese? What kind of legal team does this nut job have? A Tokyo racist would hire white girls but definitely not Chinese.

Thread full of blatant racists acting outraged by racism. smdh

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Regardless of how much Purdue should pay to settle the case they need to fire the Asian racist immediately. There’s no place for his ilk in an American university.

He probably has tenure. Would that prevent his firing?

No. And he should have been fired years ago.

Universities are full of Asian racists and it’s good some of their racism is finally being exposed. Let them go back to their homogeneous societies and revel in their purported superiority.

I transferred out of an econ program 20 years ago because the heavy bias against non-Asian students and rampant sexism among faculty made it miserable and I didn't see it getting better in grad school. Shifted to poli sci, attended a top law school, it worked out.

So now I'm watching this case with interest as a lawyer who is familiar with this kind of academic culture. Back then sexism in academia was so commonplace no one really cared (and would say "well they are from a different culture" about an Asian professor saying sexist things the way they'd also defend old white guy profs with "well he's from a different time") and people really did believe Asian students were harder working and smarter. It never would have occurred to any of us to sue. So I'll be curious to see where this goes.

Similar experience 20-30 years ago in the hard sciences. There were non-Asian professors (old old old white guys) who only had Chinese students and post-docs. It was known throughout the department that if you weren’t Chinese (and directly from China) there wasn’t any point in applying to a those labs.

[Anonymous]

Chinese are pretty good at doing the crunch work, but they have no imagination or leadership skills at all. Put them in a cubicle to solve mathematical problems, that's all they are good for.

[Anonymous]

As a Purdue engineering graduate, I would not encourage my kids to go there. The mailers I get from the university and Alumni organizations nowadays are all DEI. From what I've seen over the past few years, the quality of engineering education has greatly declined. The Purdue name still carries weight within the region and somewhat nationally, but likely not for much longer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Regardless of how much Purdue should pay to settle the case they need to fire the Asian racist immediately. There’s no place for his ilk in an American university.

He probably has tenure. Would that prevent his firing?

No. And he should have been fired years ago.

Universities are full of Asian racists and it’s good some of their racism is finally being exposed. Let them go back to their homogeneous societies and revel in their purported superiority.

You mean the racist former Harvard prez should go back to her roots? Are you serial?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a Purdue engineering graduate, I would not encourage my kids to go there. The mailers I get from the university and Alumni organizations nowadays are all DEI. From what I've seen over the past few years, the quality of engineering education has greatly declined. The Purdue name still carries weight within the region and somewhat nationally, but likely not for much longer.

That's what Harvey Mudd people have been whispering for years about their department. But if they say it, they get fired.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a Purdue engineering graduate, I would not encourage my kids to go there. The mailers I get from the university and Alumni organizations nowadays are all DEI. From what I've seen over the past few years, the quality of engineering education has greatly declined. The Purdue name still carries weight within the region and somewhat nationally, but likely not for much longer.

That's what Harvey Mudd people have been whispering for years about their department. But if they say it, they get fired.

https://www.thecollegefix.com/premier-stem-college-faces-accusations-of-a-dumb-downed-education-to-advance-equity/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a Purdue engineering graduate, I would not encourage my kids to go there. The mailers I get from the university and Alumni organizations nowadays are all DEI. From what I've seen over the past few years, the quality of engineering education has greatly declined. The Purdue name still carries weight within the region and somewhat nationally, but likely not for much longer.

What you've seen seems to be distorted by your distaste for diversity, equity, and/or inclusion. The quality of engineering education at Purdue remains strong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a Purdue engineering graduate, I would not encourage my kids to go there. The mailers I get from the university and Alumni organizations nowadays are all DEI. From what I've seen over the past few years, the quality of engineering education has greatly declined. The Purdue name still carries weight within the region and somewhat nationally, but likely not for much longer.

But how can a university claim to support DEI while tolerating faculty making blatant racist, sexist, and xenophobic statements for years? The things these witnesses let slide while faculty there does not seem very woke, unless there's an Asian exception to being racist etc.