Dr. Amy Laura Wax, who holds the Robert Mundheim chair at the University of Pennsylvania, recently gave a speech in Washington, D.C. She has made herself a celebrity among academic bigots.
Using a term she coined “cultural distance nationalism,” she stated: “We are better off if our country is dominated numerically, demographically, politically, at least in fact if not formally, by people from the First World, from the West, than by people from countries that had failed to advance.”
She continued: “Let us be candid. Europe and the First World, to which the United States belongs, remain mostly White for now; and the Third World, although mixed, contains a lot of non-White people. Embracing cultural distance, cultural distance nationalism, means, in effect, taking the position that our country will be better off with more Whites and fewer non-Whites.”
The full transcript of her address is available. They hardly exonerate her.
She stated, for example, that “the fear of being accused of racism, White supremacy, xenophobia has cowed and paralyzed” politicians “across the spectrum.” They have been apparently rendered unwilling to protect what she calls “our legacy population” threatened by what she has dubbed “revenge or adversary multiculturalism.” Unlike them, she called for “push back against the ungrateful habit of blaming the West by pointing repeatedly to the self-inflicted wounds of the Third World.”
Her comments show the semblance of scholarship. She rejected the notion that people can become Americans by accepting its ideals, because “many, indeed most, inhabitants of the Third World, don’t necessarily share our ideas and beliefs; others pay lip service, but don’t really comprehend them.”
She also has begun a project of reviving the reputation of the late British politician Enoch Powell. In 1968, he gave what has come to be known as the “Rivers of Blood” speech, arguing the English were mad to allow immigration that would build their own funeral pyre. Like Powell and others, she foresees a clash of civilizations. In the coded language of conspiracy theorists, race suicide also occurs with intermarriage.
