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Professor Sues Penn State University for Racial Discrimination

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Professor Sues Penn State University for Racial Discrimination
The Penn State University campus in University Park, Pa., on Nov. 8, 2011. Rob Carr/Getty Images
Naveen Athrappully
Naveen Athrappully
7/1/2023|Updated: 7/1/2023
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Zack De Piero, a former English writing professor at the Pennsylvania State University, is suing the institution after being subject to racially discriminatory policies at the campus for being white.
“Penn State has implemented a university-wide policy and so-called ‘strategic plan,’ euphemistically labeled ‘anti-racism,’” says the lawsuit (pdf), filed on June 14 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The policy “singles out white employees for harassment and discrimination under the label of ‘white privilege,’ ‘white supremacy,’ and other racial stereotypes that attribute negative values and characteristics to employees, including but not limited to Zack De Piero, based upon the color of their skin rather than the content of their character,”
Naveen Athrappully
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