Global outrage after Penn Law professor Amy Wax calls India a 'shithole' and slams 'Brahmin' women
Amy Wax, 69, said Indians were critical of everything the US had to offer despite "their own country" being "a shithole"
Amy Wax, who teaches law at the University of Pennsylvania, attacked the Indian demographic on national television
A law professor sparked widespread outrage after making a slew of controversial statements about immigrants in the US, mostly denigrating Indians.
Amy Wax, who teaches law at the University of Pennsylvania, attacked the Indian demographic saying they were critical of everything the US had to offer despite "their own country" being "a shithole." The 69-year-old professor also mentioned the caste system that is prevalent in India, and how Brahmins consider themselves above people from other castes.
“Here’s the problem. They (Brahmin women from India) are taught that they are better than everybody else because they are Brahmin elites and yet, on some level, their country is a shit hole." Wax said during a Friday appearance on Tucker Carlson's Fox Nation segment. “There is just a tremendous amount of resentment and shame of non-western peoples against western peoples for western peoples’ outsized achievements and contributions. It’s really unbearable," she added.
Wax also criticized Asian and South Asian Indian doctors at Penn Medicine. Several clips of the interview made the rounds on social media. Media researcher Nikki McCann Ramirez shared a video with the caption, "Penn Law professor Amy Wax tells Tucker Carlson that 'Blacks' and other 'non-western' groups harbor 'resentment, shame, and envy' against western people for their 'outsized achievements and contributions.'"
In a follow-up tweet, McCann Ramirez wrote, "Wax then attacks Indian
immigrants for criticizing things in the US when 'their country is a
shithole' and goes on to say that 'the role of envy and shame in the way
that the third world regards the first world [...] creates ingratitude
of the most monstrous kind.'"
https://www.thehansindia.com/hans/opinion/news-analysis/destined-to-remain-poor-forever-520297
https://www.thehansindia.com/hans/opinion/news-analysis/destined-to-remain-poor-forever-520297In a follow-up tweet, McCann Ramirez wrote, "Wax then attacks Indian immigrants for criticizing things in the US when 'their country is a shithole' and goes on to say that 'the role of envy and shame in the way that the third world regards the first world [...] creates ingratitude of the most monstrous kind.'"
"As someone hailing from a similar background as Amy Wax, I feel pretty comfortable in the conviction that no one considered her great grandparents or mine to be representative of the 'western' tradition when they showed up here as poor, Yiddish-speaking Eastern Europeans," author Joshua Zei
"Amy Wax thinks 'American Blacks' and 'Brahmins' are just GREEN WITH ENVY over 'Anglo-Protestant culture' BTW what is that? Does it involve getting rejected by Harvard and the CIA and still winding up w/ an internet fishing show where you kiki w/ white supremacist Amy Wax?" MSNBC host Joy Reid commented.
"Let's be clear: It's wrong to stereotype," healthcare reform advocate Stephen Klasko chimed in. "And it's racist to take a shot on TV against physicians who have Indian heritage, who save lives every day, and who perform great work in Phila and the nation. What Indian Americans don't need is racist idiocy from prof Amy Wax."
"Penn Law Professor Amy Wax attacks Indian immigrants in the United States, says 'at some level their country (India) is a shithole'. When will these disgusting illiterate racists stop exposing themselves?" journalist Aditya Raj Kaul wrote.
"Amy Wax has been saying racist things FOR AT LEAST A DECADE under
Penn Law's banner," author Elie Mystal alleged. "In 2019, *3 YEARS ago*
She straight up said that the US would be 'better off' with 'more
whites' and 'fewer nonwhites.' @pennlaw is simply not being credibly by
calling this conduct 'escalating,'" he added.
A spokesperson for the University of Pennsylvania's law school told
Axios that "Professor Wax's views do not reflect our values or
practices."
2 comments:
In this particular case she was not necessarily wrong.
I've never been to India but, it looks like a shithole. I could say the same thing about several other countries. There are also several locations in the U.S. that I believe qualify as shitholes. Sometimes unpleasant truths are still the truth. The picture posted on BGB of India should be named, "A Portrait of a Shithole."
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