Rocky, i said nothing about weisman as a person. I quoted his insulting and mocking the idea of daas Torah and his supposed astonishment that “such things are normal to so many people”
The freezer is far from new. And the Lakewood roshei yeshiva, who are daas torah in the largest torah community in America, hold of it. If a bochur’s rebbe doesn’t hold of it, he can learn somewhere else – there are a growing amount of options for post eretz yisroel bochurin which do not have a freezer.
What i said about his potential to he chazir feselech is simply a suggestion that if he wanted to reach the people who are involved in his issues, he should have addressed them from their mindset; then i remarked that such a subterfuge would, while being effective, also be insidious.
I’m just talking about what he said and what he could have said.
But come to think of it, it does sound more like he’s just kvetching; while he doesn’t seem to have personally been affected by the system(I’m not sure, i didn’t read all of his writings) he wants to advocate for people who he thinks are – but he clearly has not spent sufficient time trying to appreciate the ideals and values of the Torah world, instead looking from the outside in and wondering why we can’t do things like he does.