“ I was a bit disappointed,” Murray said after the event. “His ethics are not there, and there are bad research methods in that methodology.”īrandy Faulkner, a visiting assistant professor of political science and international studies and an organizer with Still Concerned -a faculty-led effort meant to counter Murray’s visit -said Murray represents “systemic racism.”īut for all the things the protesters had to say about Murray and his writings, when the time came to say something directly to Murray during the Q&A, the protesters offered not a peep.
“Shame on Pamplin for not vetting him,” she said of the university ’ s Pamplin College of Business, which hosted the event.Īsked for something specific that Murray had written or said to bolster her claim, Huynh instead pointed to the fact that the Southern Poverty Law Center considers Murray a “ W hite nationalist.” The center also says Murray uses “racist pseudoscience and misleading statistics to argue that social inequality is caused by the genetic inferiority of the B lack and Latino communities, women and the poor.” “ I just disagree with his whole point that women are inferior,” Huynh said during an interview. She said she is studying at Virginia Tech on a scholarship.
Among the protesters were students such as Caitlin Huynh, who said she recently became an American citizen, hails from a small town in Vietnam, and is now a freshman who is a double major in global development and international studies and French.
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