Because buckling under to a totalitarian communist state is so progressive...
Via NY Post:
Chen Guancheng, the blind human-rights activist who arrived at New York University with such great fanfare last May, is now being shown the door. The back door, that is. University officials have quietly told him that it’s time for him to move on.
Word on the street is that the university’s plans to open a campus in Shanghai this fall have been put on hold by Chinese officials, who have made it clear that Chen’s continued residence at NYU is a stumbling block. And that NYU has caved under this pressure.
Pardon me if I take Chen’s plight a bit personally. You see, I was fired from Stanford University years ago for largely the same reasons that Chen is now being abandoned by NYU.
Like Chen, I was a critic of China’s one-child policy. While Chen encouraged the women of his district who had been forced to abort to file a lawsuit against local government officials, I was an eyewitness to the forced abortions themselves. I saw women who were seven, eight, even nine months along given “poison shots” into the womb. I witnessed cesarean section abortions, and learned that babies born alive were routinely killed by lethal injections.