The woke culture at an elite American university spiraled so out of control during Trump’s first term that it was reminiscent of China’s Cultural Revolution, Amy Chua, author of Tiger Mother, said Monday.
Chua, a professor at Yale Law School for nearly a quarter century, was under immense pressure to denounce her longtime friend, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, ahead of his Senate confirmation hearing in 2018.
An open letter calling on the Senate to essentially halt the confirmation process pending an FBI investigation received 47 faculty signatures, but Chua’s was not among them.
“This is exactly what they did during the Cultural Revolution,” Chua said. “The terminology was so similar: it was like ‘sue,’ you know? You just saw everyone on the faculty folding. It was like lemmings: we all have to sign this thing, and I just don’t like to do things to sign.” , the weakness,” Chua said The free press.
“I wasn’t trying to be brave or stand out, for me it was a very personal decision. I just don’t turn on my friends. It wasn’t, ‘Did you think it happened or not?’ I thought, ‘I’m just not going to judge him.’ “
Anti-Israel agitators block roads outside Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut on Monday, April 22, 2024. Protests continue after a week of demonstrations calling on the university to divest from military weapons manufacturers. (Michael Ruiz/Fox News Digital)
Chua is the author of “Battle Song of the Tiger Mother,” a book that popularized her highly committed and academically rigorous Chinese-style education, along with several other books. Her book immediately caused controversy one critic accuses her of ‘reinforcing stereotypes’.
Chua admitted that she was engaged in a “long struggle for survival” during the tumultuous period when the uproar surrounding Kavanaugh’s confirmation gripped the students and faculty at Yale Law School.
Kavanaugh was diagnosed by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford accused of committing sexual assault at Georgetown Preparatory School as a teenager.
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American author Amy Chua talked about her experience with Yale being canceled. (PRAKASH SINGH/AFP via Getty Images)
The Guardian reported at the time that Chua told female students who wanted to work for Kavanaugh to put on makeup, reportedly saying it was “no coincidence” that his female clerks “looked like models.”
The author of “The Triple Package” vehemently denied the allegations, calling them a “completely false” spin.
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“That’s just dumb advice that I would never actually give: dress like a model for an interview for a conservative,” she said.
Media coverage of Kavanaugh’s allegations has received widespread attention. New York Times reporter David Enrich recently announced he would discuss the incident ‘differently’ today in a conversation with Kavanaugh’s childhood friend Mark Judge.
