Anonymous
04/13/2021 21:35
Subject: Re:well no wonder Amy Chua defended Brett Kavanugh so emphatically
Anonymous wrote:Bump. More Chua drama.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9462423/Tiger-Mom-Amy-Chua-claps-suspension-Yale-Law-alcohol-fueled-dinner-parties.html
I'm not a fan of her in any sense but my professors had us over for dinner parties with drinks once a semester. I don't see the big deal.
Anonymous
04/13/2021 21:10
Subject: Re:well no wonder Amy Chua defended Brett Kavanugh so emphatically
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I never understood how the Tiger Mom books were so popular. Like am I supposed to be impressed, surprised or in any way relate to two Yale Law School professors, $500K+ HHI, access to top private K-12 schools, tutoring, extracurriculars, and admissions savvy, legacy status, and connections got a pair of daughters into Harvard and Yale?
And I vaguely recall the book trying to gin up her Chinese mother's (the two daughters' maternal grandparents) poor upbringing? For one that is all unverifiable, they could have been Chinese elite for all I know -- and two, that was what, 75 years ago? It has nothing to do with her own daughter's top 1% privileged Ivy League bubble upbringing.
It’s mostly stereotypes to sell books.
Think of it this way. Educational values with Asians is in some ways similar to educational values of the Jews.
Wiki says she's Filipino. She's might be ethnic Chinese, but culturally she's must be Filipino.
Anonymous
04/13/2021 20:50
Subject: Re:well no wonder Amy Chua defended Brett Kavanugh so emphatically
Anonymous
08/27/2020 11:50
Subject: Re:well no wonder Amy Chua defended Brett Kavanugh so emphatically
Anonymous wrote:I never understood how the Tiger Mom books were so popular. Like am I supposed to be impressed, surprised or in any way relate to two Yale Law School professors, $500K+ HHI, access to top private K-12 schools, tutoring, extracurriculars, and admissions savvy, legacy status, and connections got a pair of daughters into Harvard and Yale?
And I vaguely recall the book trying to gin up her Chinese mother's (the two daughters' maternal grandparents) poor upbringing? For one that is all unverifiable, they could have been Chinese elite for all I know -- and two, that was what, 75 years ago? It has nothing to do with her own daughter's top 1% privileged Ivy League bubble upbringing.
It’s mostly stereotypes to sell books.
Think of it this way. Educational values with Asians is in some ways similar to educational values of the Jews.
Anonymous
08/27/2020 10:57
Subject: Re:well no wonder Amy Chua defended Brett Kavanugh so emphatically
Anonymous wrote:I never understood how the Tiger Mom books were so popular. Like am I supposed to be impressed, surprised or in any way relate to two Yale Law School professors, $500K+ HHI, access to top private K-12 schools, tutoring, extracurriculars, and admissions savvy, legacy status, and connections got a pair of daughters into Harvard and Yale?
And I vaguely recall the book trying to gin up her Chinese mother's (the two daughters' maternal grandparents) poor upbringing? For one that is all unverifiable, they could have been Chinese elite for all I know -- and two, that was what, 75 years ago? It has nothing to do with her own daughter's top 1% privileged Ivy League bubble upbringing.
Go read the TJ threads in schools.
Anonymous
08/27/2020 10:49
Subject: Re:well no wonder Amy Chua defended Brett Kavanugh so emphatically
I never understood how the Tiger Mom books were so popular. Like am I supposed to be impressed, surprised or in any way relate to two Yale Law School professors, $500K+ HHI, access to top private K-12 schools, tutoring, extracurriculars, and admissions savvy, legacy status, and connections got a pair of daughters into Harvard and Yale?
And I vaguely recall the book trying to gin up her Chinese mother's (the two daughters' maternal grandparents) poor upbringing? For one that is all unverifiable, they could have been Chinese elite for all I know -- and two, that was what, 75 years ago? It has nothing to do with her own daughter's top 1% privileged Ivy League bubble upbringing.
And I vaguely recall the book trying to gin up her Chinese mother's (the two daughters' maternal grandparents) poor upbringing? For one that is all unverifiable, they could have been Chinese elite for all I know -- and two, that was what, 75 years ago? It has nothing to do with her own daughter's top 1% privileged Ivy League bubble upbringing.
Anonymous
08/27/2020 10:22
Subject: Re:well no wonder Amy Chua defended Brett Kavanugh so emphatically
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It turns out Chua’s husband & fellow Yale law professsor was sexually harassing his students.
Two year suspension from Yale!
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/nyregion/jed-rubenfeld-yale.html?referringSource=articleShare
Pretty sleazy parents. No better than the ones who paid for their kids' SAT scores and college admissions.
Kid might be qualified for SCOTUS clerkship, but so are lots of graduates of top law schools. How did she get the clerkship? Did her mom's Op-Ed help? It surely didn't hurt, and the optics are really, really bad.
If I were Amy's kid, I'd try to work elsewhere.
It's one thing to be a Tiger Mom, and quite another to use your profile and influence to gain favors for your child. Smells like cheating to me.
I think this is the very essence of Tiger Mom - and Trumpism, frankly. Shameless power grabbing (and grabbing whatever else you want). A relentless, unapologetic grasping for whatever the fck you think you deserve.
Yes, but from a philosophical perspective, don’t we all do that all the time?
That's along the lines of the arguent that even giving charity isn't really altruistic, because you do it to please yourself. It's not that there's nothing to that argument. But I think it sands away a real difference between people like that - and people like Trump - and normal people, who feel constrained by senses of duty and shame. Go far enough away from caring about other people, and you turn into a sociopath. I think these people are sociopaths.
Anonymous
08/27/2020 10:20
Subject: Re:well no wonder Amy Chua defended Brett Kavanugh so emphatically
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It turns out Chua’s husband & fellow Yale law professsor was sexually harassing his students.
Two year suspension from Yale!
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/nyregion/jed-rubenfeld-yale.html?referringSource=articleShare
Pretty sleazy parents. No better than the ones who paid for their kids' SAT scores and college admissions.
Kid might be qualified for SCOTUS clerkship, but so are lots of graduates of top law schools. How did she get the clerkship? Did her mom's Op-Ed help? It surely didn't hurt, and the optics are really, really bad.
If I were Amy's kid, I'd try to work elsewhere.
It's one thing to be a Tiger Mom, and quite another to use your profile and influence to gain favors for your child. Smells like cheating to me.
I think this is the very essence of Tiger Mom - and Trumpism, frankly. Shameless power grabbing (and grabbing whatever else you want). A relentless, unapologetic grasping for whatever the fck you think you deserve.
Yes, but from a philosophical perspective, don’t we all do that all the time?
You are disgusting.
Anonymous
08/27/2020 10:18
Subject: Re:well no wonder Amy Chua defended Brett Kavanugh so emphatically
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It turns out Chua’s husband & fellow Yale law professsor was sexually harassing his students.
Two year suspension from Yale!
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/nyregion/jed-rubenfeld-yale.html?referringSource=articleShare
Pretty sleazy parents. No better than the ones who paid for their kids' SAT scores and college admissions.
Kid might be qualified for SCOTUS clerkship, but so are lots of graduates of top law schools. How did she get the clerkship? Did her mom's Op-Ed help? It surely didn't hurt, and the optics are really, really bad.
If I were Amy's kid, I'd try to work elsewhere.
It's one thing to be a Tiger Mom, and quite another to use your profile and influence to gain favors for your child. Smells like cheating to me.
I think this is the very essence of Tiger Mom - and Trumpism, frankly. Shameless power grabbing (and grabbing whatever else you want). A relentless, unapologetic grasping for whatever the fck you think you deserve.
Yes, but from a philosophical perspective, don’t we all do that all the time?
Anonymous
08/27/2020 09:48
Subject: Re:well no wonder Amy Chua defended Brett Kavanugh so emphatically
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It turns out Chua’s husband & fellow Yale law professsor was sexually harassing his students.
Two year suspension from Yale!
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/nyregion/jed-rubenfeld-yale.html?referringSource=articleShare
Pretty sleazy parents. No better than the ones who paid for their kids' SAT scores and college admissions.
Kid might be qualified for SCOTUS clerkship, but so are lots of graduates of top law schools. How did she get the clerkship? Did her mom's Op-Ed help? It surely didn't hurt, and the optics are really, really bad.
If I were Amy's kid, I'd try to work elsewhere.
It's one thing to be a Tiger Mom, and quite another to use your profile and influence to gain favors for your child. Smells like cheating to me.
I think this is the very essence of Tiger Mom - and Trumpism, frankly. Shameless power grabbing (and grabbing whatever else you want). A relentless, unapologetic grasping for whatever the fck you think you deserve.
And when a tiger mom marrys a Harvey Weinstein, you run into an explosive Trumpian scenario where they literally grab whatever they want.
Anonymous
08/27/2020 09:07
Subject: Re:well no wonder Amy Chua defended Brett Kavanugh so emphatically
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It turns out Chua’s husband & fellow Yale law professsor was sexually harassing his students.
Two year suspension from Yale!
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/nyregion/jed-rubenfeld-yale.html?referringSource=articleShare
Pretty sleazy parents. No better than the ones who paid for their kids' SAT scores and college admissions.
Kid might be qualified for SCOTUS clerkship, but so are lots of graduates of top law schools. How did she get the clerkship? Did her mom's Op-Ed help? It surely didn't hurt, and the optics are really, really bad.
If I were Amy's kid, I'd try to work elsewhere.
It's one thing to be a Tiger Mom, and quite another to use your profile and influence to gain favors for your child. Smells like cheating to me.
I think this is the very essence of Tiger Mom - and Trumpism, frankly. Shameless power grabbing (and grabbing whatever else you want). A relentless, unapologetic grasping for whatever the fck you think you deserve.
Anonymous
08/27/2020 07:40
Subject: Re:well no wonder Amy Chua defended Brett Kavanugh so emphatically
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It turns out Chua’s husband & fellow Yale law professsor was sexually harassing his students.
Two year suspension from Yale!
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/nyregion/jed-rubenfeld-yale.html?referringSource=articleShare
Is it a 2-year paid vacation?
He refused to disclose.
It puts her support of Kavanugh in a new light. Her hubby was making moves on his students the entire time.
So once again, without any facts in hand, you are excoriating a man for mere allegations - nothing more. Gosh, where have we seen this before?
You think Yale just suspended him for two years because he has a winning smile?
Yes, this definitely puts her support of Kavanaugh in a new and even grosser light.
Anonymous
08/27/2020 07:33
Subject: Re:well no wonder Amy Chua defended Brett Kavanugh so emphatically
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It turns out Chua’s husband & fellow Yale law professsor was sexually harassing his students.
Two year suspension from Yale!
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/nyregion/jed-rubenfeld-yale.html?referringSource=articleShare
Pretty sleazy parents. No better than the ones who paid for their kids' SAT scores and college admissions.
Kid might be qualified for SCOTUS clerkship, but so are lots of graduates of top law schools. How did she get the clerkship? Did her mom's Op-Ed help? It surely didn't hurt, and the optics are really, really bad.
If I were Amy's kid, I'd try to work elsewhere.
It's one thing to be a Tiger Mom, and quite another to use your profile and influence to gain favors for your child. Smells like cheating to me.
And the best Yale Law can do is suspend the guy for 2 years...
You all are missing the point. The entire system is corrupt and morally bankrupt.
You can focus on Kavanaugh and Chua all you want. But as long as institutions keep enabling and promoting these kinds of people, this country is screwed.
Anonymous
08/27/2020 00:56
Subject: Re:well no wonder Amy Chua defended Brett Kavanugh so emphatically
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It turns out Chua’s husband & fellow Yale law professsor was sexually harassing his students.
Two year suspension from Yale!
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/nyregion/jed-rubenfeld-yale.html?referringSource=articleShare
Is it a 2-year paid vacation?
He refused to disclose.
It puts her support of Kavanugh in a new light. Her hubby was making moves on his students the entire time.
So once again, without any facts in hand, you are excoriating a man for mere allegations - nothing more. Gosh, where have we seen this before?
Anonymous
08/27/2020 00:47
Subject: well no wonder Amy Chua defended Brett Kavanugh so emphatically
Turned out this Filipino gal is married to an alleged sexual pervert. Not sure how reliable Wiki is but the pervert allegation is all there under this gal Amy and her husband at Yale law.