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Newsweek's Josh Hammer Newsweek’s Opinion Editor Josh Hammer posted a series of tweets agreeing with the claim that the U.S. needs “fewer Asians." Hammer responded to a tweet calling out Law Professor Amy Wax, saying she was “praising the superiority of ‘European’ culture, now argues that the US needs ‘fewer Asians’ and we need to be asking ‘how many’ Asians are too many.” “Amy Wax has bigger cojones than 99.9% of the GOP.” Hammer wrote in a since-deleted tweet. He followed up on that with a thread attempting to explain his defense of Wax and his belief that the GOP needs to embrace “restrictionist” immigration policy. "The specifics of what Amy Wax says in any specific moment of any specific podcast are less important than her immense Overton window-shifting value in slowly helping to retire the long-standing GOP consultant class pablum of 'illegal immigration bad; legal immigration good!'" he tweeted. "There is no issue on which the base and the establishment are more at loggerheads than legal immigration. The base is restrictionist, and has been for decades now," said Hammer. The controversial professor has argued against the idea that all cultures are equal and was profiled in the New Yorker under the headline, “A Penn Law Professor Wants to Make America White Again.” Stephen Gutowski, founder of the Reload, called out Hammer’s comments. “What a pathetic cop-out,” Gutowski wrote. “I’d like to know if he thinks the US should have fewer Asians. That’s literally what Amy Wax said.” Gutowsi's reaction was far from isolated. Despite the delete, Hammer was hammered for hours, both for the initial remark, and for refusing to disavow it. | 