University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax finds herself in racial quicksand, trying to explain resentment she thinks Asian and Black students have about “Western peoples’ outsized achievements,” preaching the choir on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson” show. “They climb the ladder, they get the best education, we give them every opportunity, and they turn around and lead the charge on ‘we’re racists, we’re an awful country,’ On some level, their country is a s—hole,” Wax told Carlson. Wax’s comments are to the “woke” crowd the epitome of “racism,” because they shed light on today’s reverse discrimination, where white people are viewed as “racist” by certain minorities, all because they are not black or part of a racial minority group. Wax was quoted in the past saying in the U.S. would be “better off with fewer Asians,” largely referring to people of south Asian descent.
Today’s supercharged racial atmosphere stemming from the May 25, 2020 George Floyd police murder, spawned a number of anti-racist books, becoming a news category of non-fiction called “anti-racist” literature. Started by 65-year-old Robin DiAngelo with her 2018 book “White Fragility,” the anti-racist category has been dominated by 39-year-old Boston University Professor Ibram X. Kendi [formerly Henry Rogers] author of the 2019 book, “How to Become an Anti-Racist,” promoting Critical Race Theory, the idea that the United States is a systemically racist country. Kendi subscribes to Nicole Hannah-Jones 2021 “1619 Project,” talking about systemic racism in the context of America’s original sin of slavery. Hannah-Jones, now a journalism professor in Race at Howard Uniiversity, created the historical rationale to today’s anti-racist literature.
Wax has been condemned by her colleagues at Penn, prompting disciplinary action that might result in her dismissal. Part-time Penn lecturer, Neil Makhija, executive director of Indian American Impact, a South Asian rights organization, questioned Wax’s ability to educate or grade South Asians or blacks fairly. “The most unfortunate thing is that we have a lot of brilliant and incredible students at the law school,” Makhija said. “It makes you question whether she can fairly grade or education,” casting aspersions on Wax’s civil rights. Holding beliefs opposing the “1619 Project,” “Critical Race Theory” or “Anti-Racist literature” doesn’t mean that Wax is prejudiced, bigoted or in anyway racist. Today’s hyper-charged racial atmosphere gives “anti-racist” zealots the ability to go after reputable professors or employees only the basis of rumor, gossip and innuendo, expressly prohibited in the U.S. legal system.
Talking to Fox News Tucker Carlson becomes the latest reverse-discrimination, refusing to acknowledge alternative points-of-view, especially when it comes to race. When it come to Blacks, things are so seismographically sensitive today you can’t refer to descents of Sub-Saharan African as “Blacks” or “African Americans,” only “dark-skinned people,” something also certain to be banned. When you look at Wax’s statements to Carlson, there’s nothing racist about them, only reflecting current socio-political trends that see political militancy from any racial minority group that are not considered part of the White majority. If Trump’s presidency taught anything, it’s that it’s easy for the media to stereotype all Whites as racists, no matter what their treatment of South Asians or dark-skinned people. Trump, Carlson and Wax are all victims of the new “woke” anti-racist elites.
When you consider what the media did in the 2020 presidential campaign to Trump, it’s clear that racial demonization goes on as a political weapon. Whatever the institution, racial demonization goes on now more than ever, violating the civil rights of anyone charged, like Professor Wax. “These comments are the only reasons anyone knows who Was is today,” Makhija said. “She found a platform on Tucker Carlson, but very few other would grant her any credibility. . .She’s simply trying to add a veneer of intellectualism to blatant racism,” Makhija said. Makhija doesn’t say that Carlson’s show is a forum for libertarians, tired to the fake racial attacks from the left, every time they wish to demonize anyone that doesn’t agree with them. Makhija becomes the racist for calling Carlson’s show a forum for “racism,” when, in fact, it’s a place for honest debate about controversial topics.
Whatever demonization happened to Trump by the fake news, Carlson has a right to defend himself and his guests from similar kinds of unfounded attacks. Asking why newcomers to American are disgruntled is not racist. “I feel like asking these people, why did you leave your country? Why are you here?” Wax’s questions are not racist they’re legitimate questions for different groups finding living in “racist” American difficult to cope. “You don’t show up in someone else’s country and start attacking them,” Carlson said, agreeing with Wax, there are too many groups that resent living in America. Makhija has no empathy for White Americans currently under siege, attacked by various civil rights groups for racism, only because they’re white. Whether Penn Law School gets rid of Wax is anyone’s guess. What’s known for sure is that whites in today’s America are all branded racists.
