US prof slammed for remark against Asian-Americans

Washington, April 16

Leading Indian-Americans, including US Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, have slammed a law professor from the University of Pennsylvania for her disparaging comments about the Asian American community, with a specific disdain for Indian-Americans.

In a recent interview to Fox News, Prof Amy Wax from the University of Pennsylvania alleged that “Blacks” and “non-Western” groups have “a tremendous amount of resentment and shame against western people for [their] outsized achievements and contributions”. “Here’s the problem. They’re taught that they are better than everybody else because they are Brahmin elites and yet, on some level, their country is a … (derogatory term),” Wax, who has a long history of inflammatory remarks, said.

She also said the westerners have outgunned and outclassed the Asian-Americans in every way.

“They’ve realised that we’ve outgunned and outclassed them in every way… They feel anger. They feel envy. They feel shame. It creates ingratitude of the most monstrous kind,” she said.

Wax then targeted the influential Indian-American doctors’ community as well. “They are on the ramparts for the antiracism initiative for ‘dump on America’,” she alleged.

The comment was condemned by the Indian-Americans across the US. —