UPenn TA boasts of calling on white male students last

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Kyle Perisic, Leadership Institute Intern - Campus Reform


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A graduate student teaching assistant at the University of Pennsylvania admitted to intentionally calling on white men last, and only if she has to, during class discussions.

“I will always call on Black women students first. Other POC get second tier priority. WW [white women] come next. And, if I have to, white men,” Stephanie McKellop wrote in a recent tweet, prompting an investigation from the university.

McKellop, a white woman herself, later defended the tweet, noting that she was taught this practice by an “amazing” professor.

“I was taught that ^ as an undergrad by an amazing prof. In normal life, who has the easiest time speaking, most opportunities? Flip it,” she elaborated, admitting in a subsequent series of tweets that the university would be “issuing a press release and condemning me and my teaching practices.”

“I don’t know what you all can do. I don’t know what I’m supposed to do. I had the cute idea that Penn could defend me against Nazis haha. Isn’t that funny,” she added.

Steven Fluharty, the dean of UPenn’s School of Arts and Sciences, issued that response in a written statement Thursday, but while he acknowledged that the school would be “looking into the current matter,” he flatly denied that McKellop had been removed from the PhD program.

“The university’s policies prohibiting discrimination are intended to reinforce our commitment to equity and inclusion,” Fluharty wrote, noting that the school recognizes “the importance of ensuring that students in groups that were historically marginalized have full opportunity to participate in classroom discussions.”

“We are looking into the current matter involving a graduate-student teaching assistant to ensure that our students were not subjected to discriminatory practices in the classroom and to ensure that all of our students feel heard and equally engaged,” he continued, but added that “contrary to some reports, the graduate student has not been removed from the program, and we have and will continue to respect and protect the graduate student’s right to due process.”

While she has not been removed from the program, McKellop insists she was prevented from teaching the remainder of the week, alleging that “They did keep me from going to lecture with my students and they *cancelled* their classes with me this week.”

Campus Reform has reached out to McKellop and is currently awaiting her response.

[Goofy]

:wanker:

[RBP]

That mentality is so entrenched that she had no idea that this would even be considered questionable. That's amazing.

And anyone who dares question it is a "Nazi".

[Muddy]

As a hetero white male I would take great pride in snorting back the biggest soul wrenching loogie I could draw out of my sinuses and hock it dead into her face.

[deebakes]

that would be a hate crime and you would be severely prosecuted :shrug:

[PorkChopSandwiches]

That mentality is so entrenched that she had no idea that this would even be considered questionable. That's amazing.

And anyone who dares question it is a "Nazi".

Her racist ass is calling everyone else Nazi's ...this is rich

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Toni Airaksinen, New York Campus Correspondent - Campus Reform


The University of Pennsylvania graduate student who boasted of calling on white men last during class discussions has not been removed from teaching duties, despite reports suggesting otherwise.

Stephanie McKellop, a PhD student studying history, tweeted in October that “I will always call on Black women students first. Other POC get second tier priority. WW [white women] come next. And, if I have to, white men.”

McKellop, who is a white woman, defended herself in a series of subsequent tweets, arguing that she was taught the teaching method, known as “progressive stacking,” by an “amazing” professor.

“I was taught that ^ as an undergrad by an amazing prof,” she tweeted. “In normal life, who has the easiest time speaking, most opportunities? Flip it.”

Her tweets were promptly covered by outlets including The Daily Wire, The Daily Mail, The Miami Herald, Reason, The Daily Caller, Inside Higher Ed, and many more, sparking outrage and backlash that led to, according to McKellop, calls for her to lose her job.

The UPenn administration initially stated that it would be “looking into the current matter” while explicitly denying that McKellop had been removed from the PhD program, but when she tweeted earlier this week that she “won’t be teaching next semester,” some media outlets interpreted this to mean that she had been fired.

“There are too many misrepresentations to even email,” McKellop told Campus Reform in an interview. “I'm taking my comprehensive exams next semester, which is what all PhDs in my department have to do. It isn't a punishment, and has nothing to do with the progressive stacking issue.”

“No PhD student can teach every semester in my department,” McKellop explained, adding that there is an “invented connection between the progressive stacking issue and me doing the normal things that every PhD student in my department can do. There is not even remotely a connection.”

McKellop noted that she will still be on campus next semester, stressing that she was not reprimanded in any way, and that the school’s administrators “were and are fair and supportive of their grad students.”

Campus Reform reached out to the University of Pennsylvania to confirm McKellop’s account, but did not receive a response.

[RBP]

Which will just encourage and expand the practice.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Pipe down Whitey, no one called on you :hand:

[RBP]

Pipe down Whitey, no one called on you :hand:

For "Nazis" like me, this is "normal life" where I have "the easiest time speaking, most opportunities". TA Cuntressa said so. :hand:

[Muddy]

Pipe down Whitey, no one called on you :hand:

:lol: