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Your morning racism. Courtesy of Tucker and Penn's Amy Wax (Original Post) underpants Apr 2022 OP
"my best friend is an immigrant" rampartc Apr 2022 #1
Amy Wax - the eye rolls and mocking "endless diversity" underpants Apr 2022 #2
look up "elitist in the dictionary rampartc Apr 2022 #3
Evidently she never learned about colonialism dalton99a Apr 2022 #14
Wax is what happens when ... Whiskeytide Apr 2022 #4
she is a piece of dung... one of the most racist people on earth. spewing racism carefully with Demovictory9 Apr 2022 #5
and one would think that a Jewish WOMAN would understand discrimination. Fucking **** CurtEastPoint Apr 2022 #6
You would think that the ones who perpetrate racism in so many ways would understand. Samrob Apr 2022 #11
There are white supremacist Jews. dalton99a Apr 2022 #16
Self loathing IronLionZion Apr 2022 #17
She is vile Pachamama Apr 2022 #45
What racist POS. After centuries of the "west" exploiting... brush Apr 2022 #7
It's abusers' language and framing. It's gaslighting. It's projection. yardwork Apr 2022 #20
Penn must be SO proud. NoMoreRepugs Apr 2022 #8
Princeton or Penn? Bristlecone Apr 2022 #9
I hope they Cancel her racist ass. Pepsidog Apr 2022 #12
Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School dalton99a Apr 2022 #19
I changed the OP thanks to a message from a DU'er underpants Apr 2022 #27
Im feeling quite a bit of 'shame' myself. She's Jewish? Stephen Miller's mom, perhaps? 70sEraVet Apr 2022 #10
UPENN Law Professor, Amy Wax, is not just anti-Black; She is an Eugenicist. Celerity Apr 2022 #43
Her parents were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe dalton99a Apr 2022 #13
I couldn't listen past Tucker saying, "First, I even hate thinking in terms of groups because..." yardwork Apr 2022 #15
That got me too. I guess compared to this Wax person underpants Apr 2022 #31
I wonder if he's falling apart? yardwork Apr 2022 #36
Fk her and tuck tuck. iluvtennis Apr 2022 #18
Hate is hate regardless of the words used to express it. Solly Mack Apr 2022 #21
Princeton or Penn Law? Cmon (Nt) FreepFryer Apr 2022 #22
Penn Law School Celerity Apr 2022 #24
Thanks Celerity! She seems super fun (Nt) FreepFryer Apr 2022 #34
I am sure she is a riot at many a party (maybe literally, lolol) Celerity Apr 2022 #42
I changed it. Guilty as charged. underpants Apr 2022 #29
Thank god no, but Yale and Harvard have a few. Many thanks for the correction (Nt) FreepFryer Apr 2022 #33
Wax has degrees from Yale and Harvard, too. yardwork Apr 2022 #35
Oops! FreepFryer Apr 2022 #37
Oh yes. They're promoting and perpetuating white supremacy. yardwork Apr 2022 #38
100%. (Nt) FreepFryer Apr 2022 #40
a Fox Nation is a Fucked Nation Celerity Apr 2022 #23
That's great! We need to spread that far and wide! yardwork Apr 2022 #32
Racism, egoism and other irrationalities are peculiar chemical imbalances....... jaxexpat Apr 2022 #25
Well said. brush Apr 2022 #30
She is a disgusting piece of shit. Native Apr 2022 #26
This message was self-deleted by its author jfz9580m Apr 2022 #28
Vice signalling. (Nt) FreepFryer Apr 2022 #39
Does she have resentment, shame, and envy because women have been discriminated against by the succe keithbvadu2 Apr 2022 #41
Nikki Haley is a daughter of Indian immigrants. Does Cuck Tarlson hate her? Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2022 #44
Dr. Wax ought to lose her position at Penn Law. Paladin Apr 2022 #46
Funny... DemUnleashed Apr 2022 #47

rampartc

(5,438 posts)
1. "my best friend is an immigrant"
Tue Apr 12, 2022, 06:28 AM
Apr 2022

incredible. he has a friend?

seriously, these clips are essential insights to what we are up against.

underpants

(182,922 posts)
2. Amy Wax - the eye rolls and mocking "endless diversity"
Tue Apr 12, 2022, 06:33 AM
Apr 2022

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

Whiskeytide

(4,463 posts)
4. Wax is what happens when ...
Tue Apr 12, 2022, 07:05 AM
Apr 2022

… a racist, miserable, worthless piece of shit happens to get an education, but fails to learn anything.

Demovictory9

(32,479 posts)
5. she is a piece of dung... one of the most racist people on earth. spewing racism carefully with
Tue Apr 12, 2022, 07:10 AM
Apr 2022

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.

Samrob

(4,298 posts)
11. You would think that the ones who perpetrate racism in so many ways would understand.
Tue Apr 12, 2022, 07:51 AM
Apr 2022

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.

brush

(53,918 posts)
7. What racist POS. After centuries of the "west" exploiting...
Tue Apr 12, 2022, 07:32 AM
Apr 2022

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)
20. It's abusers' language and framing. It's gaslighting. It's projection.
Tue Apr 12, 2022, 08:16 AM
Apr 2022

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.

Celerity

(43,577 posts)
43. UPENN Law Professor, Amy Wax, is not just anti-Black; She is an Eugenicist.
Tue Apr 12, 2022, 08:59 AM
Apr 2022
https://grandmotherafrica.com/upenns-law-professor-amy-wax-endorses-white-americas-opposition-to-reparations/

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Paradoxes often expose paralogisms. Amy Wax might be a fine specimen of the west’s Ivy League Law education, but Amy fails in the correct application of common sense. Amy’s other idea of “cultural distance” is equally stupefying. By cultural distance, what Amy is espousing is the idea of “otherizing;” the idea of maintaining America’s white protestant ethic as culture—which she claims has been inherited from old Europe—from any adulteration by immigrant cultures. That is to say that, for instance, Africa’s 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 America’s 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 Amy’s great continent of Europe), and refuse to excise that culture to adopt to European cultural ideals. Amy’s Jewishness must jump at her as the representation of the very cultural distancing, she speaks of, from Europeanness.

The reason why Amy’s Jewishness does not jump at her as cultural distancing, but everything else that is not white is—like being African or Mexican or Muslim—is 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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yardwork

(61,712 posts)
15. I couldn't listen past Tucker saying, "First, I even hate thinking in terms of groups because..."
Tue Apr 12, 2022, 08:11 AM
Apr 2022

Laughable hypocrisy.

I've never heard of Amy Wax but she sounds like a mean, bitter, angry person.

underpants

(182,922 posts)
31. That got me too. I guess compared to this Wax person
Tue Apr 12, 2022, 08:44 AM
Apr 2022

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)
36. I wonder if he's falling apart?
Tue Apr 12, 2022, 08:47 AM
Apr 2022

I saw in another article that he claims to be unvaxxed. That's probably a lie, though.

Solly Mack

(90,789 posts)
21. Hate is hate regardless of the words used to express it.
Tue Apr 12, 2022, 08:16 AM
Apr 2022

From the base and vile to the formal and equally as vile, it's all still the same.

Hate.

Celerity

(43,577 posts)
24. Penn Law School
Tue Apr 12, 2022, 08:33 AM
Apr 2022
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Wax

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.



yardwork

(61,712 posts)
38. Oh yes. They're promoting and perpetuating white supremacy.
Tue Apr 12, 2022, 08:51 AM
Apr 2022

People can be smart but misinformed, smart but wrong, smart but evil, etc.

Being smart isn't synonymous with being smart.

yardwork

(61,712 posts)
32. That's great! We need to spread that far and wide!
Tue Apr 12, 2022, 08:45 AM
Apr 2022

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)
25. Racism, egoism and other irrationalities are peculiar chemical imbalances.......
Tue Apr 12, 2022, 08:35 AM
Apr 2022

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.

Response to underpants (Original post)

keithbvadu2

(36,945 posts)
41. Does she have resentment, shame, and envy because women have been discriminated against by the succe
Tue Apr 12, 2022, 08:54 AM
Apr 2022

Does she have resentment, shame, and envy because women have been discriminated against by the successes of the patriarchy?

???

Paladin

(28,276 posts)
46. Dr. Wax ought to lose her position at Penn Law.
Tue Apr 12, 2022, 09:11 AM
Apr 2022

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)
47. Funny...
Tue Apr 12, 2022, 09:32 AM
Apr 2022

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!!!

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