Talk:Amy Wax

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A fact from Amy Wax appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 8 August 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that American academic Amy Wax graduated from Harvard Medical School before becoming a lawyer? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2019/August. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Amy Wax.

It would help if the "reaction" section included law professors who disagree with her. This comes across as a "puff" piece. I expect better from Wiki. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.133.164.83 (talk) 17:26, 22 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This is a transcript of her most recently focused on remarks. Someone might want to add it in external links or otherwise cite to it. https://thefederalist.com/2019/07/26/heres-amy-wax-really-said-immigration/

The quoted paragraph that we now have in the article in part, continues with Wax saying: “Well, that is the result anyway. So even if our immigration philosophy is grounded firmly in cultural concerns, doesn’t rely on race at all, and no matter how many times we repeat the mantra that correlation is not causation, these racial dimensions are enough to spook conservatives.”

--2604:2000:E010:1100:C8DC:A9D3:EC3E:4D61 (talk) 23:15, 26 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Many credible organizations (The Daily Pennsylvanian, Penn Law) are calling her racist. we should add that description.

https://www.thedp.com/article/2019/07/racism-amy-wax-penn-law-upenn-philadelphia https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/07/24/penn-law-condemns-amy-waxs-recent-comments-race-and-immigration-others-call-her — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arnob1 (talk • contribs) 20:16, 24 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Please familiarize yourself with WP:BLP. This is not RationalWiki and it is not the job of Wikipedia to editorialize about the subject of an article, either pro or con. There is an extensive "controversy" section in which reactions to her views, including those calling her racist, are discussed. Iamcuriousblue (talk) 20:26, 27 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

That makes sense. As long as her racism is documented (for example, in a controversy section) I am OK with it. Arnob (talk) 00:24, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Should the lede of the article contain a descriptor of her politics? I've reverted a previous edit that outright calls her a "white supremacist" per WP:BLP and unless she outright calls herself a "white nationalist", "white separatist", etc or openly aligns with groups that fall into that category, I'd be wary of throwing that hot button label on her, even if there are mainstream media sources that would label her that way.

She does seem to identify with national conservatism^[1] and perhaps that would be appropriate to put into the lede. Iamcuriousblue (talk) 20:36, 27 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]