…yet another target for his political rage.
So far, he has failed to have his way with two targets: A professor, and a playwright.
Despite Wiesenfeld’s insistence that the professor be fired for views about Israel with which Wiesenfeld strongly disagreed, the university professor was not fired. Well, he was fired, but then he was rehired because of free speech protests.
And now, it’s just been announced, the executive committee of CUNY’s trustees will shortly meet. It will almost certainly reinstate the honorary degree Wiesenfeld succeeded in withholding from Tony Kushner, another person with whom Wiesenfeld strongly disagrees.
It’s a strange, and probably really frustrating, pattern. Wiesenfeld gets his way; he gets the people purged. But then the decisions are reversed.
And why? Well, as the head of CUNY’s trustees explains:
Freedom of thought and expression is the bedrock of any university worthy of the name.
It’s a credit to CUNY that they appointed to the board a man whose free expression is … so remarkably free. Remarkably.
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Oh. And to make the Stalinism complete: Wiesenfeld has said he’ll forgive Kushner if Kushner will make before him a public apology for his apostasy.