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Racism Allegations Dog Professors who said that ‘All Cultures are Not Equal’

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Sounds like a lot of liberal-on-liberal criticism:

The professors, Amy Wax of the University of Pennsylvania and Lawrence Alexander of the University of San Diego, co-authored an op-ed in The Philadelphia Inquirer titled “Paying the Price for Breakdown of the Country’s Bourgeois Culture,” which quickly prompting outrage among students and alumni.

One public statement, issued by 54 University of Pennsylvania students and alumni, denounces Wax’s arguments as stemming “from the very same malignant logic of hetero-patriarchal, class-based white supremacy that plagues our country today.”

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