Professor Richard Lowery files class action lawsuit against Texas A&M University System for discriminating based on race (Title VI) and sex (Title IX) in employment.

MRA_TitleIX · 2022-09-13T15:04:10+00:00

From the court filing, as quoted in the linked article:

The Texas A&M University System, along with nearly every university in the United States, discriminates on account of race and sex when hiring its faculty, by giving discriminatory preferences to female or non-Asian minorities at the expense of white and Asian men. This practice, popularly known as “affirmative action,” has led universities to hire and promote inferior faculty candidates over individuals with better scholarship, better credentials, and better teaching ability.

These race and sex preferences are patently illegal under Title VI and Title IX, which prohibit all forms of race and sex discrimination at universities that receive federal funds. But university administrators think they can flout these federal statutes with impunity because no one ever sues them over their discriminatory faculty-hiring practices and the Department of Education looks the other way.

These discriminatory, illegal, and anti-meritocratic practices have been egged on by woke ideologues who populate the so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion offices at public and private universities throughout the United States. The existence of these offices is subverting meritocracy and encouraging wholesale violations of civil-rights laws throughout our nation’s university system.

Not mentioned in the article:

I have reached out and provided a dossier of documents and internal emails from within the Texas A&M system showing negligence in handling complaints of discrimination, from issuing fake rulings, handling cases off the books, and not responding when I alerted the System Ethics and Compliance Office to the issue.

For me, they didn't officially file my complaints of discrimination while working them. They used this as a way to avoid oversight and avoid affording me my rights. They held the cases in review and in the dark from oversight while they made changes to the programs in an attempt to get them compliant. They then dismissed the cases as "no violation" despite internal emails showing a different conclusion. This let them avoid disciplining faculty involved, like one director who argued in a 2016 publication (while employed by the school) that Title IX justified discriminating in school engineering programs by forming all-women engineering teams, something she was doing, and continues to do despite my internal complaints.

They didn't investigate the complaint of Zahra Shahrashoob who is also suing them for employment discrimination. When she had complained of a pay disparity issue (her court filing looks extremely compelling), they responded by not investigating and reducing her contract term. I know the pay gap isn't a thing at-scale, but for both men and women as individuals, it absolutely does happen. It looks compelling that she was being paid less than people with similar qualifications based on her race / sex.

In 2020 there was another court case where a male was found guilty in a school Title IX tribunal despite having nearly double the BAC of his accuser. The school only interviewed witnesses the accuser wanted (ignoring most of the known witnesses), and never officially filed his complaint that he was the one who was sexually assaulted. They assigned his case to someone going on maternity leave while they selectively processed his accusers complaint. The fact that his complaint was never officially filed was used to deny it's consideration in the final hearing where the school declared him guilty.

There appears to be a pattern of reckless negligence to Title IX complaints within the school system. Despite being aware of it, there is a distinct lack of action by the System Ethics and Compliance Office in fixing the problem. This is a callous disregard for federal civil rights laws by this university system, and it looks like they are finally being brought to task on it.

hottake_toothache · 2022-09-13T16:57:24+00:00

Godspeed.

reverbiscrap · 2022-09-14T04:30:20+00:00

90% (thereabouts) of Affirmative Action benefits have gone to white women. Why do you think it is still around, or so defended by feminists? Do you really think they would stump for 'the coloreds' if there was no gains for them? Stump for black MEN in particular

Liesa92 · 2022-09-13T20:39:42+00:00

"Not the old-fashioned kind where women, blacks, Jews, Catholics, Asians, gays, or communists were excluded from employment opportunities, but the modern Kendian variety, in which overt discrimination against white men"

- now it's about us, so it;s a problem

AzrielK · 2022-09-14T13:59:29+00:00

Kyle Rittenhouse is trying to get into Texas A&M, they made implications that they won't accept him on the basis of his court case that he was acquitted from.

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