I am an American born Asian and am nearly 60 years old. When I was growing up, the American Asian communities that I was aware of were much more conservative and predominantly leaned right. They have traditional and conservative values that aligned with the Republican Party of the 60's and 70's.

Now, as an adult nearing senior age, I see the vast majority of Asian Americans including many seniors older than me, now lean Democratic. The seeds were there before, but Trump has fanned the flames of Anti-Asian sentiment so much that many Asian Americans now feel threatened in our homes and communities by the bigotry that people Trump and Wax promote.

Although I understand the university's caution, I think she got off far too lightly.

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Anonymous wrote:As someone who looked up to women in her generation who broke many barriers for generations to come after her, I am so disappointed by her. I would hope that for such a well educated person and a person who is Jewish, she would be more open minded and accepting of other minorities. Makes me wonder what made her think in this way.

I’m really coming around to the theory that right wing brain damage is transmitted via brain worms or something.

I do wonder if it’s a brain function thing, like who or what hurt you for you to be so full of hatred and pessimism.

Anonymous wrote:As someone who looked up to women in her generation who broke many barriers for generations to come after her, I am so disappointed by her. I would hope that for such a well educated person and a person who is Jewish, she would be more open minded and accepting of other minorities. Makes me wonder what made her think in this way.

I’m really coming around to the theory that right wing brain damage is transmitted via brain worms or something.

As someone who looked up to women in her generation who broke many barriers for generations to come after her, I am so disappointed by her. I would hope that for such a well educated person and a person who is Jewish, she would be more open minded and accepting of other minorities. Makes me wonder what made her think in this way.

Effing finally

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Anonymous wrote:And yet, DCUM's resident Republicans will contort themselves into pretzels saying that, actually, it's Democrats who are the real racists and are driving Asians and other minorities to vote R.

When I hear Penn Law Professor I immediately think D. Does she have a political affiliation?

While I agree with you that the default assumption that academics at elite institutions are intelligent and registered Democrats is a generally reliable and useful heuristic, unfortunately, that's not the case here.

She also trained at Yale, Harvard, and Columbia. Can anyone point me to something that says she is Republican?

Ted Cruz trained at Princeton and Harvard.

Are the ivies ideological extremist breeding grounds?

Look what happened to JD Vance after he studied law at Yale!

You ain’t kidding.

Even more disgusting things that Amy Wax has done and said in a new report from the Dean:
https://www.inquirer.com/news/amy-wax-penn-law-professor-sanction-20220717.html

Anonymous wrote:She clerked for a Democratic judge/member of Congress

But now she’s practically espousing replacement theory, which is the darling of the GOP right now.

It’s so fun to watch the GOP pretend that they’re open minded every few years and then they say this kind of thing.

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Anonymous wrote:And yet, DCUM's resident Republicans will contort themselves into pretzels saying that, actually, it's Democrats who are the real racists and are driving Asians and other minorities to vote R.

When I hear Penn Law Professor I immediately think D. Does she have a political affiliation?

“I assume things wrongly despite all visible evidence.”

How does that even matter - she is a White Supremacist and a racist AF. D or R does not matter...

Is she a Nazi?

No, she's the granddaughter of Russian Jewish immigrants who settled in New York, and she's even said she grew up in a Jewish community in Troy, NY.

Her great-grandparents are listed on the 1920 census as speaking Yiddish. But I guess that's OK, because they're white.

Kind of disproves her idea though that the US shouldn't take immigrants from countries that "failed to advance." Russia looks pretty much like a failure.

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Anonymous wrote:Should tenure be reformed so that academics are more accountable for fostering extremism on either side of political spectrum?

It is academia already so messed up and most professors so underpaid that it would take away a big incentive to stay in teaching at tertiary level?

Tenured academics are not undepaid.

No but other professors are and removing tenure may remove an important incentive for brainy people to go into academia when they could be doing far more lucrative work.

Then we end up with even more intellectually challenged extremists

Anonymous wrote:Should tenure be reformed so that academics are more accountable for fostering extremism on either side of political spectrum?

It is academia already so messed up and most professors so underpaid that it would take away a big incentive to stay in teaching at tertiary level?

Tenured academics are not undepaid.

Should tenure be reformed so that academics are more accountable for fostering extremism on either side of political spectrum?

It is academia already so messed up and most professors so underpaid that it would take away a big incentive to stay in teaching at tertiary level?

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Anonymous wrote:And yet, DCUM's resident Republicans will contort themselves into pretzels saying that, actually, it's Democrats who are the real racists and are driving Asians and other minorities to vote R.

When I hear Penn Law Professor I immediately think D. Does she have a political affiliation?

While I agree with you that the default assumption that academics at elite institutions are intelligent and registered Democrats is a generally reliable and useful heuristic, unfortunately, that's not the case here.

She also trained at Yale, Harvard, and Columbia. Can anyone point me to something that says she is Republican?

Ted Cruz trained at Princeton and Harvard.

Are the ivies ideological extremist breeding grounds?

Look what happened to JD Vance after he studied law at Yale!

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Anonymous wrote:And yet, DCUM's resident Republicans will contort themselves into pretzels saying that, actually, it's Democrats who are the real racists and are driving Asians and other minorities to vote R.

When I hear Penn Law Professor I immediately think D. Does she have a political affiliation?

While I agree with you that the default assumption that academics at elite institutions are intelligent and registered Democrats is a generally reliable and useful heuristic, unfortunately, that's not the case here.

She also trained at Yale, Harvard, and Columbia. Can anyone point me to something that says she is Republican?

In her own words:

"My argument is that mainstream conservatives should take much more seriously the case for reducing and slowing our current levels of immigration...I believe the conservatives need to push back against the ungrateful habit of blaming the West by pointing repeatedly to the self-inflicted wounds of the Third World."

These comments were made at the National Conservatism Conference.

Yah I can see this deep thinker’s point about these third world immigrant ingrates … the Congolese who did not have their arms cut off for low worker output on the rubber plantations did not even send the great humanitarian King Leopoldo Ii of Belgium a thank you note for his civilizing influence in its former colony (on par with Putin’s civilizing of Ukraine).

Still waiting for thanks to the West from the 4million African, Chinese, Indians, Javanese, Melanesians and other third worlders for the privilege of working on colonial plantations during the 19th and early 20th centuries? The indentured labor system was so much better than slavery.m and they got to travel to exciting new countries for free.