The awakening culture at an elite American university has gotten so out of control during Trump’s first term that it resembles China’s Cultural Revolution, “Tiger Mother” author Amy Chua said Monday.
Chua, a Yale law professor for nearly a quarter century, faced enormous pressure to denounce her longtime friend, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, ahead of his 2018 Senate hearing.
An open letter urging the Senate to halt the confirmation process pending an FBI investigation received 47 faculty signatures, but Chuin was not among them.
“That’s exactly what they did in the Cultural Revolution,” Chua said. “The terminology was so similar—it was like ‘show,’ you know? You could just see everybody drop out in college. It was like a lemming—we all have to sign this, and I just don’t like signing things, a weakness,” Chua said Free press.
“I wasn’t trying to be brave or stand out, it was a very personal decision for me. I just don’t turn on my friends. It wasn’t, ‘Did you think it happened or didn’t it?’ I said, ‘I just won’t judge him.’ “
Anti-Israel agitators block roads outside Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, Monday, April 22, 2024. The protests continue after a week of protests demanding the university divest from a military arms manufacturer. (Michael Ruiz/Fox News Digital)
Chua is the author of “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” the book that popularized her highly engaged and academically rigorous Chinese-style upbringing, along with several other books. Her book immediately caused controversy, with one critic who accused her “reinforcing stereotypes”.
Chua acknowledged that she was in a “long struggle for survival” during the tumultuous period in which the uproar over Kavanaugh’s confirmation engulfed students and faculty at Yale Law School.
Kavanaugh is Dr. Christine Blasey Ford accused of sexual assault as a teenager at Georgetown Preparatory School.
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American author Amy Chua opened up about her experience of being rejected from Yale. (PRAKASH SINGH/AFP via Getty Images)
The Guardian reported at the time that Chua told female students who wanted to work for Kavanaugh to dress up, allegedly saying it was “no accident” that his female employees “looked like models.”
The “Triple Package” author strongly rejected the accusations, calling them “completely false” spin.
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“That’s just stupid advice that I would never actually give, to dress like a model to interview for a conservative,” she said.
The media coverage of Kavanaugh’s allegations generated intense attention. New York Times reporter David Enrich recently admitted he would cover the incident “differently” today in a conversation with Kavanaugh’s childhood friend Mark Judge.
