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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYour morning racism. Courtesy of Tucker and Penn's Amy Wax
Last edited Tue Apr 12, 2022, 08:35 AM - Edit history (1)
Tucker looks like he just rolled out of bed. Are a sweater and a button down shirt his jammies?
Link to tweet
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rampartc
(5,438 posts)incredible. he has a friend?
seriously, these clips are essential insights to what we are up against.
underpants
(182,922 posts)For someone who loves attacking the elites she sure has a well developed supremacist mentality.
Good grief look at her resume.
Education
Yale University
Oxford University
Harvard Medical School
Harvard Law School
Columbia Law School
rampartc
(5,438 posts)there is a photo of carlson right above the definition.
dalton99a
(81,631 posts)Whiskeytide
(4,463 posts)a racist, miserable, worthless piece of shit happens to get an education, but fails to learn anything.
Demovictory9
(32,479 posts)those eyebrows and that smile. I watched an entire youtube interview of her, what she was saying, carefully and softly, was that America used to have jobs to give us low IQ POC "dignity" given we don't have the IQ for high level jobs. But we could be made to feel important with the lower level jobs fit for our tiny brains. OMG.
CurtEastPoint
(18,667 posts)Samrob
(4,298 posts)Wondering how people who come from desolate situations and make good for themselves could look down on all the great, loving, and caring white Americans like Tucker and herself is how they see it. It never occurs to them it's all about how people TREAT you. I have been to some pretty poor countries where the people treat each other and strangers among them with respect and kindness. On the other hand... well, if you have visited some western countries...you know what I mean if you are person of color.
dalton99a
(81,631 posts)IronLionZion
(45,544 posts)She's compensating for her own insecurities
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)As a Penn Alum I am ashamed to have her name associated with a school I love.
brush
(53,918 posts)Last edited Tue Apr 12, 2022, 08:34 AM - Edit history (4)
the resource and labor of colonies (so-called shithole countries) to build up so-called western countries achievements, which wouldn't have happened if not for such resources and stolen labor.
And don't get me started on stolen labor as enslaved people here had their labor and freedom stolen for centuries without compensation, and then racist assholes like Wax and Carlson have the nerve to go on about how little they've achieved.
yardwork
(61,712 posts)The spectacle of two affluent people angrily and disdainfully smearing millions of people by projecting their own hatred, bitterness, and resentment onto whole groups of people...
And then Tucker virtuously protests that he "even hates talking about groups" when that's all their doing! It's all he ever does.
It would be laughable if it weren't so damaging. I hate very few people but at that moment, watching this clip, I hated Carlson and Wax.
NoMoreRepugs
(9,475 posts)Bristlecone
(10,135 posts)That is a totally racist and white nationalist conversation.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)dalton99a
(81,631 posts)underpants
(182,922 posts)I thought she was at Princeton
70sEraVet
(3,519 posts)Celerity
(43,577 posts)snip
Paradoxes often expose paralogisms. Amy Wax might be a fine specimen of the wests Ivy League Law education, but Amy fails in the correct application of common sense. Amys other idea of cultural distance is equally stupefying. By cultural distance, what Amy is espousing is the idea of otherizing; the idea of maintaining Americas white protestant ethic as culturewhich she claims has been inherited from old Europefrom any adulteration by immigrant cultures. That is to say that, for instance, Africas Musical Civilization of the Americas (Soul, Soul cuisine, Country music, Hip-hop, Rap, etc.), because it was forged by the bete noire, race, must be maintained separate from Americas white/European cultural identity, if not better wiped out.
Although when Amy is properly examined, Amy herself is Jewish; Amy herself is the very antithesis of maintaining a pure European culture in America. Amy is the very representation of people who maintain a foreign culture, a Semitic culture at that (as Judaism is not indigenous to Amys great continent of Europe), and refuse to excise that culture to adopt to European cultural ideals. Amys Jewishness must jump at her as the representation of the very cultural distancing, she speaks of, from Europeanness.
The reason why Amys Jewishness does not jump at her as cultural distancing, but everything else that is not white islike being African or Mexican or Muslimis simply because Amy views Jewishness the same way that the rest of Europe and white Americans view Christianity: It must have been formerly black (and Hebrew, a very long time ago), but now it is white and European! Amy views Jewishness in the same manner as her fellow whites view Christianity and in the same way that many white Americans now view Country Music: It must have been an African invention in America, but now it is white, because we said so!
Hence to understand western academic achievement is to understand its products like Amy Wax. To better understand the philosophy of western academia is to examine its fine samples such as Amy Wax. Therein lies the very definition of Western Academia: The most anti-Black institution ever erected in the history of man to glorify nothing but unfettered mediocrity, depressing insecurity and utter violence.
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dalton99a
(81,631 posts)yardwork
(61,712 posts)Laughable hypocrisy.
I've never heard of Amy Wax but she sounds like a mean, bitter, angry person.
underpants
(182,922 posts)Tucker thinks he can take a high road.
Thanks for the tip on Penn.
I think that part was when I realized that Tucker looked like he just rolled out of bed or off the floor.
yardwork
(61,712 posts)I saw in another article that he claims to be unvaxxed. That's probably a lie, though.
iluvtennis
(19,880 posts)Solly Mack
(90,789 posts)From the base and vile to the formal and equally as vile, it's all still the same.
Hate.
FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)Celerity
(43,577 posts)Amy Laura Wax (born January 19, 1953) is an American lawyer, neurologist, and academic. She is the Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Her work addresses issues in social welfare law and policy, as well as the relationship of the family, the workplace, and labor markets. Wax was born and raised with her two sisters in a Jewish household in Troy, New York, where she attended public schools. Her parents were immigrants from Eastern Europe. Her father worked in the garment industry, and her mother was a teacher and an administrator in the government in Albany, New York.
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In an August 2017 piece in The Philadelphia Inquirer titled "Paying the price for breakdown of the country's bourgeois culture", she wrote with San Diego law professor Larry Alexander that since the 1950s, the decline of "bourgeois values" (such as hard work, self-discipline, marriage, and respect for authority) had contributed to social ills such as male labor force participation rates down to Great Depression-era levels, endemic opioid abuse, half of all children being born to single mothers, and many college students lacking basic skills. The authors asserted that "all cultures are not equal. Or at least they are not equal in preparing people to be productive in an advanced economy." She told The Daily Pennsylvanian that "everyone wants to go to countries ruled by white Europeans" because of their "superior" mores. In the same interview Wax strongly emphasized that she did not believe in the superiority of one race over another, but was describing the situation in various countries and cultures.
In a September 2017 podcast interview with Professor Glenn Loury, Wax said: "Take Penn Law School, or some top 10 law school... Here's a very inconvenient fact ... I don't think I've ever seen a Black student graduate in the top quarter of the class, and rarely, rarely in the top half ... I can think of one or two students who scored in the top half in my required first year course," and said that Penn Law has a racial diversity mandate for its law review. University of Pennsylvania Law School Dean Theodore Ruger responded, "Black students have graduated in the top of the class at Penn Law, and the Law Review does not have a diversity mandate. Rather, its editors are selected based on a competitive process."
In July 2019, at the Edmund Burke Foundation's inaugural National Conservatism conference, Wax said, "Embracing... cultural distance nationalism, means in effect taking the position that our country will be better off with more whites and fewer non-whites." She went on to explain that her ideas were about culture, and not about race, but the racial compositions of the societies in question led to most academics avoiding the topic entirely. On April 8, 2022 Wax appeared on Tucker Carlson's show on Fox News and was quoted as saying "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.
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In 2021, Wax wrote that "the United States is better off with fewer Asians," claiming Asians are ungrateful for the advantages of living in the US and vote disproportionately for the "pernicious" Democratic Party, which she called "mystifying" because the Democratic Party "demands equal outcomes despite clear . . . group differences" and "valorizes blacks." She favorably cited Enoch Powell while calling for stricter race-based immigration restrictions against Asians.
FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)Celerity
(43,577 posts)underpants
(182,922 posts)I thought she was at Princeton
FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)yardwork
(61,712 posts)FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)Replied in the wrong place.
yardwork
(61,712 posts)People can be smart but misinformed, smart but wrong, smart but evil, etc.
Being smart isn't synonymous with being smart.
FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)Celerity
(43,577 posts)yardwork
(61,712 posts)I also like "Every accusation is a confession" in response to Republican lies about stolen elections, pedophilia among elected officials, etc.
jaxexpat
(6,859 posts)expressing their symptomatic effects through exhibitions of emotional imbalance. It requires an Ivy League education to articulate the imbalance in words which mimic reason. A pile of degrees provides a person thus handicapped the unwarranted confidence to propound illogical and unsupportable blather without suffering the recompense of introspection.
I suspect the cover is ultimately only temporary because it costs the user so much that in the end, the energy required leaves the whole an unsustainable net loss.
brush
(53,918 posts)Native
(5,943 posts)Response to underpants (Original post)
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FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,945 posts)Does she have resentment, shame, and envy because women have been discriminated against by the successes of the patriarchy?
???
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,047 posts)Paladin
(28,276 posts)That sort of filthy racist elitism ought to get her a position as a Tucker Carlson sidekick. Her family must be so proud.
DemUnleashed
(633 posts)Funny....Hey, Amy and Tucker, guess which white people didn't contribute to the outsized achievements and contributions that you're referring to?!! Your followers!!
Sure, a lot of white people made this country great but they weren't the redneck, white trash types that support you and love the ugly filth that you both spew from your mouths! So stop clumping your supporters in with the good white people who actually made a difference to this country!
Look at your followers, and tell me how they helped this country in any way!!! So stop having your followers ride the coattails of the actual good white people of this country!!!