Rectenwald launched an undercover Twitter account called Deplorable NYU Prof on 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
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>\n
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\u201cI thought there was nothing objectionable about what I had said,\u201d he told The Post.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy contention is that the trigger warning, safe spaces and bias hot-line reporting is not politically correct. It is insane,\u201d he told the student paper in an interview published Monday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
A 12-person committee which included two deans named in the Orwellian tradition “Liberal Studies Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Working Group”. They wrote;<\/p>\n
\u201cAs long as he airs his views with so little appeal to evidence and civility, we must find him guilty of illogic and incivility in a community that predicates its work in great part on rational thought and the civil exchange of ideas,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe seek to create a dynamic community that values full participation. Such efforts are not the \u2018destruction of academic integrity\u2019 Professor Rectenwald suggests, but rather what make possible our program\u2019s approach to global studies,\u201d they argued.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
What? “Full participation?” <\/p>\n
He had a meeting with his own dean and Human Resources. They claimed to be worried about his mental health and sent him off on paid leave for the rest of the semester.<\/p>\n
I guess NYU prefers the Stalin model of keeping people in line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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