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Global outrage after Penn Law professor Amy Wax calls India a 'sh**hole' and slams 'Brahmin' women

Amy Wax, 69, said Indians were critical of everything the US had to offer despite "their own country" being "a shithole"

A law professor sparked widespread outrage after making a slew of controversial statements about immigrants in the US, mostly denigrating Indians.

Amy Wax, who teaches law at the University of Pennsylvania, attacked the Indian demographic saying they were critical of everything the US had to offer despite "their own country" being "a shithole." The 69-year-old professor also mentioned the caste system that is prevalent in India, and how Brahmins consider themselves above people from other castes.

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“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 shit hole." Wax said during a Friday appearance on Tucker Carlson's Fox Nation segment. “There is just a tremendous amount of resentment and shame of non-western peoples against western peoples for western peoples’ outsized achievements and contributions. It’s really unbearable," she added.

Wax also criticized Asian and South Asian Indian doctors at Penn Medicine. Several clips of the interview made the rounds on social media. Media researcher Nikki McCann Ramirez shared a video with the caption, "Penn Law professor Amy Wax tells Tucker Carlson that 'Blacks' and other 'non-western' groups harbor 'resentment, shame, and envy' against western people for their 'outsized achievements and contributions.'"

In a follow-up tweet, McCann Ramirez wrote, "Wax then attacks Indian immigrants for criticizing things in the US when 'their country is a shithole' and goes on to say that 'the role of envy and shame in the way that the third world regards the first world [...] creates ingratitude of the most monstrous kind.'" 

The law professor was excoriated online for her disparaging remarks.

"As someone hailing from a similar background as Amy Wax, I feel pretty comfortable in the conviction that no one considered her great grandparents or mine to be representative of the 'western' tradition when they showed up here as poor, Yiddish-speaking Eastern Europeans," author Joshua Zeitz tweeted.

"Amy Wax thinks 'American Blacks' and 'Brahmins' are just GREEN WITH ENVY over 'Anglo-Protestant culture' BTW what is that? Does it involve getting rejected by Harvard and the CIA and still winding up w/ an internet fishing show where you kiki w/ white supremacist Amy Wax?" MSNBC host Joy Reid commented.

"Let's be clear: It's wrong to stereotype," healthcare reform advocate Stephen Klasko chimed in. "And it's racist to take a shot on TV against physicians who have Indian heritage, who save lives every day, and who perform great work in Phila and the nation. What Indian Americans don't need is racist idiocy from prof Amy Wax."

"Penn Law Professor Amy Wax attacks Indian immigrants in the United States, says 'at some level their country (India) is a shithole'. When will these disgusting illiterate racists stop exposing themselves?" journalist Aditya Raj Kaul wrote.

"Amy Wax has been saying racist things FOR AT LEAST A DECADE under Penn Law's banner," author Elie Mystal alleged. "In 2019, *3 YEARS ago* She straight up said that the US would be 'better off' with 'more whites' and 'fewer nonwhites.' @pennlaw is simply not being credibly by calling this conduct 'escalating,'" he added.

A spokesperson for the University of Pennsylvania's law school told Axios that "Professor Wax's views do not reflect our values or practices."