"Tiger Mom" author Amy Tsai said Monday that the woke culture at an elite American university that spiraled out of control during Trump's first term was reminiscent of China's Cultural Revolution.
Chua, who has been a professor at Yale Law School for nearly a quarter-century, has faced intense pressure to denounce her longtime friend, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, ahead of his 2018 Senate confirmation hearings. Brett Kavanaugh).
An open letter urging the Senate to halt the confirmation process pending an FBI investigation received signatures from 47 teachers, but Chua's signature was not among them.
"This is exactly what they did during the Cultural Revolution," Cai said. "The terminology is very similar — like 'condemn,' you know? You can see everyone folding in on the faculty. It's like lemmings — we all have to sign this thing, and I just don't like signing things , weakness," Cai told Hurriyet.
"I'm not trying to be brave or stand out, it's a very personal decision for me. I just wouldn't attack my friends. It wasn't 'Do you think this happened?' I was like, 'I Just won't condemn him. ""
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On Monday, April 22, 2024, anti-Israel agitators blocked a road outside Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Protests continue after a week of demonstrations calling on the university to divest from military weapons manufacturers. (Michael Ruiz/Fox News Digital)
Amy Chua is the author of "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother," which, along with several other books, popularized her highly involved and academically rigorous Chinese upbringing. Her book caused immediate controversy, with one critic accusing her of "reinforcing stereotypes."
Tsai acknowledged that she was in "a long fight for survival" during that tumultuous time, when the uproar surrounding Kavanaugh's confirmation engulfed Yale Law School students and faculty.
Dr. Christine Blasey Ford accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault as a teenager at Georgetown Prep.
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The Guardian reported at the time that Tsai told female students who wanted to work for Kavanaugh to dress themselves up and that it was "no accident" that his female staffers allegedly "looked like models."
The author of "Triple Package" vehemently denies the accusations, calling them "completely false."
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"That's just stupid advice that I would never actually give, to dress like a model and give an interview with a conservative," she said.
Media coverage of the Kavanaugh allegations has been closely watched. New York Times reporter David Enrich recently admitted that he would be covering the story "differently" today in an exchange with Kavanaugh's childhood friend Mark Judge.