Who Is Amy Wax? US Law Professor's Remarks On 'Brahmin Women'& India Spark Outrage

Amy Wax, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, received backlash online for her racist comments against immigrants in America. She specifically attacked Indians.

The professor who is also a neurologist was seen speaking at the Tucker Carlson show and being problematically critical of immigrants in the US. Wax said that "non-western" groups and "Blacks" have "resentment, shame and envy" against western people for their "achievements and contributions". Attacking Indian immigrants, Wax said that they criticise the US while "their own country is a sh**hole". She then pulled up Indian doctors and 'Brahmin women' of India.

Amy Wax was heard saying, " Here’s the problem. They (Brahmin women from India) are taught that they are better than everybody else because they are Brahmin elites and yet, on some level, their country is a sh**hole.”

“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 added. The 69-year-old professor's controversial comments soon went viral on social media with over a million views. Many Indians were seen outraged by the comments made by Wax. They also noted that Amy Wax has made similar statements in the past so her recent racist rant should not shock people.

Earlier, Amy Wax had said that America is "better off with fewer Asians" Her comment was then addressed by the the dean of Penn Law School Theodore Ruger who called it racist and anti-intellectual. This time, the Penn university has refused to comment on Wax's comments and said that what she said does not reflect "our values and practices".

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Apart from Indian social media users, Wax also got backlash from her colleagues such as Neil Makhija, a Penn Law School lecturer. Makhija wrote on Twitter, "We are America. And we’re committed to dismantling the systems that give your racist, moronic ideas a platform to spread." Professor at Penn Medicine, Aseem Shukla wrote, "Some of us Indian American docs @PennMedicine do our part to make America the great healthcare system you describe. So, yeah, we have the right to criticize it too." Netizens expressed concerns for the Black and Asian students who study in Wax's class.

Who Is Amy Wax?

Wax is the Robert Mundheim professor of law at University of Pennsylvania Law University. The neurologist and academician addresses relationship of workplace, family and labour markets, social welfare law policy.

Amy Wax herself is the child of Jewish immigrants who came from Eastern Europe and settled in New York. Her father reportedly worked in garment industry worker in Albany, New York. She went to the Yale University to pursue a bachelor's degree in molecular biophysics and biochemistry. At Oxford University, Wax was the Marshall Scholar in Physiology, Philosophy and Psychology.

Wax studied law at the Harvard Law School and also studied medicine at Harvard Medical School. Her legal education was completed in Columbia Law School. Wax was the editor of the Columbia Law Review, reportedly she worked in the edition to put herself through law school.

She joined the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2001 as the Robert Mundheim Professor. She received both the A. Leo Levin Award for Excellence in an Introductory Course, and the Harvey Levin Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence. Wax is one of the three professors in 20 years to have received the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2015. The professor wrote a book titled Race, Wrongs, and Remedies: Group Justice in the 21st Century in 2009.