UCLA professors are protesting a symphony conducted by a conservative commentator whom they call “horribly bigoted,” according to a Wednesday report.
History professor Andrew Apter and political science professor Michael Chwe released a letter in which they advise readers to boycott a concert where conservative radio host Dennis Prager will be the guest conductor, according to Campus Reform.
“Please urge your friends to not attend this concert, which helps normalize bigotry in our community,” said Apter and Chwe in the March letter, which Prager publicized in a National Review op-ed Tuesday. “[Prager] is not a trained conductor and there is no musical rationale for his participation.”
Apter said that he told Prager’s assistant, Michael Logan, that he would like to speak on the show but has yet to receive a firm invitation.
“I suspect that they are not really interested in having me speak on the show,” Apter told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “Prager is building a caricature of academic culture in order to reject the caricature, not to address our real objections to his bigoted views.”
The history professor forwarded part of a message he sent to Logan to TheDCNF.
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