NYU Prof who tweeted against “safe spaces” and political correctness booted from classroom for “incivility”

Last updated on: October 31, 2016 at 8:58 am by Nancy French

NYU Prof who tweeted against “safe spaces” and political correctness booted from classroom for “incivility” 2016-10-31T08:58:59-05:00 Nancy French

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@antipcnyuprof @nyuniversity bravo professor shame on you cowardly fascist left #nyu pic.twitter.com/WLMC72nkpp

— Publius4Freedom76 (@RFAFreedom76) October 31, 2016

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. What I found was that the worldview at NYU was even more limited.

Here’s proof.

A liberal studies professor at NYU – Michael Rectenwald, 57 — created a Twitter account to protest the increasing student coddling and political correctness at the university. On Wednesday, he was forced to go on paid leave for the rest of the semester. The New York Post has the details:

“They are actually pushing me out the door for having a different perspective,” the academic told The Post.

Rectenwald launched an undercover Twitter account called Deplorable NYU Prof on Sept. 12 to argue against campus trends like “safe spaces,” “trigger warnings” and other aspects of academia’s growing PC culture.

He chose to be anonymous, he explained in one of his first tweets, because he was afraid “the PC Gestapo would ruin me” if he put his name behind his conservative ideas on the famously liberal campus.

He was right to be concerned.

“I remember once on my Facebook I posted a story about a kid who changed his pronoun to ‘His Majesty’ because I thought it was funny,” he told The Post. “Then I got viciously attacked by 400 people. This whole milieu is nauseating. I grew tired of it, so I made the account.”

On Oct. 11, Rectenwald used his Internet alter ego to criticize “safe spaces” — the recent campus trend of “protecting” students from uncomfortable speech — as “at once a hall of mirrors and a rubber room.”

Two weeks ago he posted on his “anti-PC” feed a photo of a flyer put out by NYU resident advisers telling students how to avoid wearing potentially offensive Halloween costumes.

“The scariest thing about Halloween today is . . . the liberal totalitarian costume surveillance,” he wrote.

However, this mild criticism of campus culture was enough to force him out of the classroom.

“Academic freedom,” Rectenwald wrote. “It’s great, as long as you don’t use it.”

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