{"id":16494,"date":"2016-10-31T08:58:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T13:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/frenchrevolution\/?p=16494"},"modified":"2016-10-31T08:58:59","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T13:58:59","slug":"nyu-prof-who-tweeted-against-safe-spaces-and-political-correctness-booted-from-classroom-for-incivility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/frenchrevolution\/2016\/10\/31\/nyu-prof-who-tweeted-against-safe-spaces-and-political-correctness-booted-from-classroom-for-incivility\/","title":{"rendered":"NYU Prof who tweeted against &#8220;safe spaces&#8221; and political correctness booted from classroom for &#8220;incivility&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/antipcnyuprof\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@antipcnyuprof<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nyuniversity\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@nyuniversity<\/a> bravo professor shame on you cowardly fascist left <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/nyu?src=hash\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#nyu<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WLMC72nkpp\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/WLMC72nkpp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Publius4Freedom76 (@RFAFreedom76) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RFAFreedom76\/status\/792885374389514240\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">October 31, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I attended New York University after I got married and fled what I thought was a small-town Christian college with a limited world view. \u00a0What I found was that the worldview at NYU was\u00a0even more\u00a0limited.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s proof.<\/p>\n<p>A liberal studies professor at NYU \u2013 Michael Rectenwald, 57 \u2014 created a Twitter account to protest the increasing student coddling and political correctness at the university. \u00a0On\u00a0Wednesday, he was forced to go on paid leave for the rest of the semester. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/10\/30\/nyu-professor-who-opposed-pc-culture-gets-booted-from-classroom\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The New York Post has the details<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThey are actually pushing me out the door for having a different perspective,\u201d the academic told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>Rectenwald launched <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/antipcnyuprof\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">an undercover Twitter account<\/a>\u00a0called Deplorable NYU Prof\u00a0on Sept. 12 to argue against campus trends like \u201csafe spaces,\u201d \u201ctrigger warnings\u201d and other aspects of academia\u2019s growing PC culture.<\/p>\n<p>He chose to be anonymous, he explained in one of his first tweets, because he was afraid \u201cthe PC Gestapo would ruin me\u201d if he put his name \u00adbehind his conservative ideas on the famously liberal campus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He was right to be concerned.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI remember once on my Facebook I posted a story about a kid who changed his pronoun to \u2018His Majesty\u2019 because I thought it was funny,\u201d he told The Post. \u201cThen I got viciously attacked by 400 people. This whole milieu is nauseating. I grew tired of it, so I made the account.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 11, Rectenwald <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/antipcnyuprof\/status\/785990516231897088\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">used his \u00adInternet alter ego to criticize \u201csafe spaces\u201d<\/a> \u2014 the recent campus trend of \u201cprotecting\u201d students from uncomfortable speech \u2014 as \u201cat once a hall of mirrors and a rubber room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago he posted on his \u201canti-PC\u201d feed a photo of a flyer put out by NYU resident advisers telling students how to avoid wearing potentially offensive Halloween costumes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe scariest thing about Halloween today is .\u2009.\u2009. the liberal totalitarian costume surveillance,\u201d he wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, this mild criticism of campus culture was enough to force him out of the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAcademic freedom,\u201d Rectenwald wrote. \u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s great, as long as you don\u2019t use it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A liberal studies professor at NYU &#8211; 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