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NYU Professor Put on Leave for Expressing Anti-PC Views

Posted On 01 Nov 2016
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A New York University professor has been forced to take a leave of absence after it was revealed that he was using an anonymous Twitter account to criticize the college’s approach to leftist ideals like safe spaces and trigger warnings.

Michael Rectenwald, who teaches liberal studies at NYU (and describes himself as a proponent of communism) said that university officials sent him out to pasture when they found out he was making the online comments.

“They are actually pushing me out the door for having a different perspective,” Rectenwald told The New York Post in an interview on Wednesday.

The controversy stems from a Twitter account Rectenwald began with the handle Deplorable NYU Prof. Using that account, the professor let the world know how he felt about some of the left’s more ridiculous social justice themes. From his perspective, these themes are not only laughable, they are actually setting the liberal movement back and giving ammunition to the alt-right.

“My contention is that trigger warning, safe spaces and bias hot-line reporting is not politically correct. It is insane,” he said in an interview with the school’s student paper. “The crazier and crazier that the left gets, the more the alt-right is going to be laughing their asses off [and] getting more pissed.”

Despite his online handle, Rectenwald does not appear to be a supporter of Donald Trump. He merely used the imagery to point out the left’s insanity from another perspective. But when he revealed that he was the man behind the account, he was summoned into the dean’s office.

“They claimed they were worried about me and a couple people had expressed concern about my mental health. They suggested my voicing these opinions was a cry for help,” Rectenwald told The Post. “Then they said I should leave and get help.”

In one way, Rectenwald’s story is one that should disturb anyone who thinks that academic freedom should be preserved. In another, however, it signals that the liberal PC culture is about to implode in on itself. These idiots won’t listen to the canaries in the coal mine who are telling them that their message is simply not penetrating beyond their own echo chamber. Yes, they are damaging young minds with this insanity, but their movement has reached the breaking point. You can get away with this nonsense for a while, but eventually you are going to run into the brick wall of collective common sense. The only way the left can succeed beyond this point is if they get the laws changed so that certain viewpoints are made illegal. In other words, if they manage to somehow erase the First Amendment from the Constitution.

Good luck with that.


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  • jgfsmf

    Well when Donald is sworn into office, the 1st amendment will actually go back into effect.

  • Osamao

    Colleges should lose their tax free privileges. They’re nothing more than Communist Democrat indoctrination centers.

  • Osamao
  • gotabgood

    Remember the 30,000 dead voters in NC in 2012????

    Shhhhhhhhh I think they will be back in 2016… don’t let the rightwing know…. shhhhh
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/55baee4c1f74438df3829a06cb76eee80bb54243ef135aa036b0cd88e023fce5.png

    • jimmy midnight

      gota-be careful,some of these ding-a-lings will think you’re being serious.

      • Osamao

        gotabgood is a stupid Soros troll. It’s hard to see the post from his end.
        Be careful. Someone might think you’re kidding………………..See how Fahked up that sounds?………………………….I highly doubt it.

        • jimmy midnight

          What actual evidence could you imaginably provide that my friend (Of course only C him in forums like this.) is a PAID troll?

          That’s a gig I might like 2 get. And I could do it better. I’ve actually actually reached y goal of having tough, respectful exchanges, a few times.

          Many others should try to “ring the bell for mental health.”

          • Osamao

            You’ve been doing it for free?……………Wow!…………Hard core traitor huh?

          • jimmy midnight

            Well, I guess.

            But thanx 4 thinkin’ I might B getting paid!

      • granny_forUSA

        REFER TO HIM AS GOTABENUTSO…………….HIS BRAIN (VIA FRANKENSTEIN) WAS A.B.NORMAL…………

        • jimmy midnight

          See reply 2 Osamao, above.

  • Bobtrhn

    Do parents still send their kids to college there? Too many left idiots teaching in our schools dumbing down our ids and controlling our kids. This needs to stop.

    • pappy450

      Not only colleges. This is starting in elementary, through middle, and on to high school. Our history books have been changed to also be more “politically correct” according to the “liberals” ideology. Much of our History has been omitted or Changed , so the “little snowflakes” don’t get traumatized and have nightmares. (but don’t worry , they will “learn” soon enough when they step out in the REAL cold cruel world!) THEN, and only THEN will they realize how they had been bamboozled by their “teachers”.

      • sandraleesmith46

        Apparently not, to judge by recent college grads by and large (NOT all, but many); they seem to still cling to the ideology drummed into their heads for a decade and a half, and to think the world owes them whatever they want!

      • Linda Lee

        Don’t forget designated teachers attend White Privilege conferences during the summer and go back to school in the fall to brainwash all their students dividing white from black,making white look like slave master.

    • pappy450

      Not only colleges. This is starting in elementary, through middle, and on to high school. Our history books have been changed to also be more “politically correct” according to the “liberals” ideology Much of our History has been omitted or Changed , so the “little snowflakes” don’t get traumatized and have nightmares.

  • barbara

    Typical…. free speech only applies to leftist liberals. You’re not allowed to criticize any aspects of the liberal movement. I hope this professor sues the university.

    • Dan

      great post

    • Carolyn Brack-Jackson

      Me too, Barbara!

  • marinemec

    We need more educators teaching this kind of reality in order to prepare our children for the real world ! Political Correctness needs to be put on the back burner where it belongs!

    • Zone43

      Political Correctness was started by the communist after thr Russian Revolution, they killed people for not adhearing to it. It’s what the communinst will do here when in full power.

      • Osamao

        Mao’s Little Red Book too…………They must be taught to “Think” correctly.

      • Linda Lee

        How can this professor identify as a proponent of communism and feel the way he does? It’s a contradiction.

      • Linda Lee

        How can he identify as a communist?

      • Arizona Don

        Politically correct = Progressive = Communism in disguise. Consequently, political correctness = communism! A turd just like democrat by any other name smells just as bad.

    • sandraleesmith46

      Not a back burner; eliminated entirely! PC is NOTHING but poison to the mind and spirit alike!

      • Linda Lee

        And now there is an effort at Orientation to emasculate men. I’m a woman, and I think this is so wrong. The women who are doing that on campus with the blessing of the faculty and dean are the worst kind of feminists. They actually hold seminars on this subject

        • sandraleesmith46

          I prefer the term “feminazis”, which Rush Limbaugh coined for them some years ago. Feminism, from which “feminist” comes means womanly; they aren’t that at all!

    • Osamao

      It belongs Extinct.

    • Arizona Don

      Political correctness is seldom correct.

  • downs1

    Most colleges today are liberal to the core! They have deep socialist leanings and their purpose is no longer to educate, but rather to indoctrinate. When that happens, it is not long before that nation simply implodes! The United States is very close to that point! Still, there are those who deny reality and think that all is well!

    • apikorus

      The Saudis infiltrated our colleges years ago. Lots of Saudi money, this is ongoing part of the plan. (read David Horowitz, read Ruth Wisse)
      Hence the marxist/islamic ideal, and the extreme Jew hatred, couched in terms of “anti-zionist” AKA “anti-Israel”.
      Baloney, it is anti-semitic. Why is there not a parallel universe to Islamophobia, which laws guarding against speech thoughts actions?
      Why?
      They have been so successful on so very many campuses, that the young idealistic Jewish students, are like sheep to the slaughter, they lack the judgment necessary to differentiate anti-semitism from the current mime. Jews traditionally have always been for the underdog,,
      and now we have these brainwashed kids, supporting the tenets of islamophobia, while ignoring the anti-semitism at their door.
      Many colleges are no longer safe places for Jewish students.

      The David Horowitz Freedom Center has been fighting this phenomenon
      They also have a ever changing list of the 10 most terrorist friendly campuses in US.
      Sadly, for a while, Brandeis Univ. was on that list, Brandeis which was founded as an alternative to Ivy League Schools which had very tight quotas for Jews. It seems to have been bumped down on the list of ten worst, but it reflects a very very sad saga.
      Join the David Horowitz Freedom Center, which published also Frontpag and Jihad Watch (Robert Spencer), and Caroline Glick of the Jerusalem Post.
      Sorry , way to long, i was warned that people do not have the concentration for anything over a tweet.
      So sad,
      Final analysis of our world culture: once people visited each other, but then the internet came, so they could email or chat or whatever, but email was too long for most people’s diminihsing capacity of concentration, so it went to tweets,
      Most people’s brains cannot accommodate anything longer than a tweet.
      So sad, Jihad is our largest worry by far, but secondarily, the destruction of human relations, face to face, by virtue ofnthe internet.
      This is very unpopular thought, but IMHO, the internet was the end of human civilization as we know it. clearly now, jihad, is our largest danger, keeping the West free, not under a sharia law Caliphate, ok

    • Linda Lee

      One professor wrote last year he was frightened of his students. I wrote to him and told him ; “Look what thou hast wrought.” Professors just like him have created these monsters.

  • Francisco Machado

    “…a couple people had expressed concern about my mental health.” – A reasonable assessment, given that he expressed views anathema to NYU ideology. Not quite at the level of approaching the Torquemada and saying “God does not exist” but it probably would be if the laws didn’t inhibit the Liberal fanatics from burning people at the stake. I wonder if they insisted he recant publicly before his expulsion from the Hallowed Halls of Dogma?

    • MyronJPoltroonian

      “Hallowed Halls of Dogma”!!! Love it! May I pass it on (“Lift” it)?

      • Francisco Machado

        Once I’ve posted it on the digital hoardings, I don’t own it any more. No © on it.

  • gin

    Some of the schools want to bring isis here to show the students how a training camp is run.

    • granny_forUSA

      MOMMY & DADDY SHOULD START SENDING THEIR KIDS TO A TRAINING CAMP………ONE THAT IS RAN BY THE DECENT PEOPLE OF THE USA………….

  • Alan404

    They spend their time telling each other how wonderful they are, how out of whack everyone else is.

  • Kent2012

    well mickey communism has a tendency to get kind of crappy when the powers that be decide that you are not an upstanding comrade….

  • Alan404

    Freedom of Speech yes, but it appears only for those whose speech fits the fashion of the day or moment.

    • sandraleesmith46

      Unless all are free to speak, NONE is!

      • granny_forUSA

        THE LIARS IN THE WH HAVE LOST THEIR FREEDOM OF SPEECH………..BECAUSE WE KNOW FOR FACTS THAT ARE LAID OUT IN WRITING THEY ARE NOT WORTHY TO RECEIVE THE BENEFITS OF THE CONSTITUTION……….

        • sandraleesmith46

          But they’ve taken ours as well, in the process.

      • Alan404

        Nicely put.

        • sandraleesmith46

          Thank-you.

  • whoselineisitanyway

    I retired from UNL, several years ago. UNL needs to be cleaned out from the top down. The Chancellor was going to put Bill Ayers as a great wonderful speaker to indoctrinate the students, until it was made known to the parents.
    THERE ARE WAY TOO MANY LIBTARDS IN THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM. CLEAN them OUT. FIRE THEM, NO LEGAL RECOURSE.
    LIBERALISM IS A MENTAL DISEASE

  • Walter Flatt

    GOOGLE 2 THINGS, (THE NEW CLINTON CHRONICLES 2015) AND, (HUMA ABEDIN TERRIOST), LISTEN TO BOTH, THEN VOTE.

    I BELIEVE WASHINGTON IS A NEST OF MUSLIM SPYS.

    IF YOU SEND THIS TO ALL IN YOU EMAIL, AND ASK THEM TO DO THE SAME TODAY, MILLIONS WILL SEE BY TUESDAY AND A LOT WILL CHANGE THEIR VOTE.

    • sandraleesmith46

      Please tone down the “all caps” and you’ll be more listened to; it’s the equivalent of shouting, on line. As to your assertion that DC is a nest of Muslim spies; since virtually all our intelligence agencies are inundated with them at high levels, as well as the WH and much of Congress (via their aides) as well; yes, that is true. Huma has known connections to the MB, as does Val (O’s confidante). Hildebeest has been accepting “donations” (read pay for play) from Muslim nations to her foundation for years. Oh, and O is Muslim as well, with known connections to the MB, of which Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, Hamas, Hizbollah, ISIS, etc are merely “tentacles”.

      • granny_forUSA

        WHY…………BECAUSE ONE MAN STATED HE WAS SHOUTING WHEN USING CAPS……..IF YOU ARE A FOLLOWER, THEN GO AHEAD AND STAY WITH YOUR SMALL PRINT……….OTHERWISE, WE LIVE UNDER THE BILL OF RIGHTS, AND THEREFORE ARE ALLOWED TO USE CAPS…………..

        • sandraleesmith46

          No, because it’s a thing called etiquette, and because all caps are actually more difficult to read!

  • sandraleesmith46

    They are working on that erasure! But the fact that this guy self-identifies as a communist, and sees the folly of the current trajectories is more than scary! Worse is the NYU reaction to it! NYU was ultra lib, when I lived in NY; and it’s gotten far worse in the decades since I left, clearly.

  • granny_forUSA

    HEY WILLIE AND KEITH………..HAVE A CUSTOMER FOR THAT TREE………..

  • bdcorvette

    You would think that the alumni would revolt and remove the board and the prez, BUT this is in NYC. Different rules for liberal mules.

  • Morning Star

    Institutional oppression by liberals for 50 years has produced the weak, ignorant, needy citizens it wanted for the rise of a communist US. The only thing left is to crush the Constitution one amendment at a time; Free speech was first and next the right to bear arms which should finish the job.

  • Tyronne Shoelaces

    Well, there’s something you don’t see everyday. A leftist showing a communist the door. I thought they were brothers in arms. Maybe that communist couldn’t get with the program/agenda.

  • Alleged Comment

    LIEberals driving everyone nuts including their own kind. Really, really BAD SIGN of mental illness.

  • MarcJ

    The modern tools of destruction imposed by the Democrat Party led by B. Hussein Obama, our half-breed Marxist Muslim President from Kenya, on our once free country include:
    1) Affirmative action, whereby inferior candidates for a job are given preference if these candidates are black, female, or insane;
    2) Multiculturalism; giving preference in hiring, promotions, immigrant visas to people from the cultures inimical to Western values;
    3) Inclusiveness; promoting inferior candidates often inimical to Western values, such as jihadist Muslims, black racists, former jail inmates, clinically insane, illegal aliens;
    4) Hate speech; instituting legal action against people with opinions different from the approved opinions (approved by our socialists, communists, Eco-Nazis, liberals, progressives, Democrats, college professors, and other bottom feeders, slime, and scum of our once free country);
    5) Disparate impact; illegal higher payments to the conscientious employees compared with the perennially late and lazy; also to bigger and stronger males vs. smaller and weaker females in jobs requiring physical prowess and endurance; when any two groups have different behavior or performance, that plain fact can be turned upside down and twisted to say that whatever criterion revealed those differences has had a “disparate impact” on one of the groups. In other words, the criterion is blamed as an injustice to those who failed to meet the standard.
    6) Racial profiling; illegal when applied to ferreting bearded Islamist jihadists boarding planes; also illegal when the police concentrate their efforts to find killers among black gangs, where 70% of all murders are committed by 3% of our population (black males 18-30 years of age); also failing to prosecute criminals among ACORN and Black Panthers members;
    7) Diversity; giving preference in hiring, promotions, salary raises, to people racially and culturally different from run-of-the-mill white born Americans; also giving preference in granting immigrant and student visas to young Muslim males from Arab countries.
    Obama’s choices for the new leaders of our armed forces illustrate the above principles in bright colors. For example: General Casey declared, in the aftermath of the Fort Hood massacre perpetrated by the Islamist jihadist “Major” Hasan: “What happened at Fort Hood was a tragedy, but I believe it would be an even greater tragedy if our diversity program becomes a casualty.” Another example: General Odierno declared: “I told my soldiers that preventing sexual assaults in the common barracks is our No. 1 priority.” And we the stupid unenlightened Americans all thought that the No. 1 priority of the US armed forces was to “defend the country against enemies foreign and domestic”.

  • franco leon

    When this this country started the PC shit, garbage? Is like a cancer now spreading and corroding our lives,WE the people need the only not-afraid, huge-balls, straightforward, at the same time gentleman and civil, America-loving-first Donal J Trump as PRESIDENT, period. Don’t be stupid this time around. VOTE for Donald, the last hope!

  • Walter Flatt

    OF COURSE WE HAVE A RIGGED SYSTEM.

    FROM A KOREAN WAR VET 51/53, A REG. DEM. ALL MY LIFE, BUT WILL VOTE FOR TRUMP.

    I BELIEVE WE HAVE BEEN SET UP FOR A TRY AT A MUSLIM INVASION OF THIS COUNTRY BY, HILLIARY, OBAMA, KERRY, SORROS AND THE BIASED MEDIA. READ ALL THE WHYS BELOW.

    IF YOU HAVE THE GUT5, GOOGLE THE BELOW AND LISTEN TO ALL AND SEND IT TO ALL YOU KNOW.

    IF YOU READ ALL THE BELOW YOU MIGHT WAKE UP.

    GOOGLE 3 THINGS, THE NEW CLINTON CHRONICLES 2015, 2ND, HILLARY CAREER CHRIMINAL, 3RD, CLINTONS CIRCLE OF POWER. LISTEN TO ALL.

    IF YOU ARE FOR THE ABOVE AND BELOW, YOU ARE TRYING TO DESTROY MY COUNTRY

    WHICH HAD YOU RATHER HAVE FOR A PRESIDENT A MAN, (AS 99% HAS), THAT TALKS A LITTLE DIRTY TO MEN, OR THE ABOVE IN THE GOOGLES.

    WHY HAS HILLIARY HAD A MUSLIM FROM A RADICAL FAMILY AS HER TOP AIDE FOR 10 YEARS, HUMA COULD BE A PERFECT PIPELINE TO PASS SECRETS TO THE MUSLIM WORLD.

    WHY HAS OBAMA SURROUNDED HIMSELF WITH MUSLIMS ANOTHER PERFECT PIPELINE TO PASS SECRETS. EVEN HE HAS DECLARED HIMSELF A MUSLIM.

    WHY GET MAD AT PUTIN, HE SAID THAT THERE WAS NO PLACE IN RUSSIA FOR ANYONE THAT WOULD NOT FOLLOW THEIR LAW AND SPEAK THEIR LANGUAGE, THEY WOULD HAVE TO GO TO A COUNTRY THAT DID.

    WHY HAS HILLIARY, OBAMA, KERRY AND THE BIASED NEWS MEDIA DONE EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO HELP THE RADICAL MUSLIMS.

    WHY IS A LAW THAT WAS PASSED IN 1952 BARRING ALL MUSLIMS FROM THIS COUNTRY, NOT ENFORCED? THIS LAW INCLUDES OBAMA SINCE HE SAID HE WAS A MUSLIM, AND ALL HE HAS AROUND HIM IN DC.

    WHY DID THIS ADMINSTRATION TRY AND BUY UP ALL AMMO?
    WHY TRADE 5 TERRIOST FROM CUBA FOR ONE TRAITOR?

    WHY TRY AND TAKE OUR GUNS? HITLER DID, & HISTORY TELLS US WHAT HAPPENED THERE.

    WHY ALLOW A MINIMUM OF 35 MUSLIM CAMPS HERE IN THE STATES? MOST CLOSE TO MILITARY BASES.

    WHY ARE THERE 5 MUSLIM CAMPS IN N. VA. CLOSE TO DC? ARE THEY TO TAKE WASHINGTON?

    WHY BUILD A FEMA CAMP IN EVERY STATE, SOME MORE THAN ONE, WITH ARMED GUARDS? ARE THEY TO HOLD MUSLIMS?

    WHY ARE THEY BRINGING THOUSANDS OF YOUNG MUSLIMS HERE?

    WHY IS THE TAX PAYER HAVING TO FEED, CLOTH & HOUSE THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSAND OF MUSLIMS BEING BROUGHT HERE?

    WHY GIVE THE THOUSANDS OF MUSLIMS BROUGHT IN FREE HEALTH CARE, SPENDING THOUSANDS FOR HOSPITAL CARE?

    WHY ARE THE ILLEGALS BEING TREATED BETTER THAN OUR VETERANS.

    WHY STOP THE TANK AND PLANE SHIPPMENT TO EGYPT, WHEN THEIR ARMY KICK THE RADICALS OUT?

    WHY DID OUR GOVERNMENT SEND BILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO HELP THE RADICALS IN IRAN, A COUNTRY OUT TO DESTROY US?

    WHY ARE WE SENDING BILLIONS TO ARAB COUNTRIES, AND LETING OUR COUNTRY GO TO POT?

    WHY DONT THEY ENFORCE THE LAW BARRING ALL MUSLIMS FROM THIS COUNTRY?

    WHY IS THE MUSLIM MAJOR IN TEXAS LIVING THAT KILLED 14 SOLDIERS AND WOUNDED A LOT MORE?

    WHY ARE THEY RELEASING ALL MUSLIMS IN CUBA TO GO BACK INTO ACTION TO KILL OUR SOLDIERS?

    WHY DONT WE HANG ALL MUSLIMS CAUGHT AND BURY THEM WITH PIG PARTS, LIKE GENERAL PERSHING DID IN THE PHILLIPENS?

    WHY WAS OBAMA ALLOWED TO SWEAR IN CARLOYN WALKER AS JUDGE IN BROOKLIN USING THE QURAN?

    WHY ALLOW ILLEGALS TO FLOOD OUR COUNTRY WHEN THEY COST MORE PER YEAR THAN THE IRAQ WAR.

    I SAY, ARM ALL OUR TROUPS TO PREVENT A MUSLIM TAKEOVER. THINK IT IS IMPOSSIBLE. I CAN TAKE 100 AND TAKE ANY BASE IN 1 HOUR.

    BETTER COAT ALL YOU AMMO WITH PIGS BLOOD OR GREASE, LET THE WORLD YOU ARE DOING SO.

    JUST PRAY THAT DONALD TRUMP IS ELECTED AND IS ABLE TO TAKE OVER AS OUR PRESIDENT.

    GOOGLE THE NEW CLINTON CHRONICLE 2015 AND YOU JUST MIGHT KNOW WHY.

    BELOW IS A GOOD REASON WHY I BELIEVE THAT A TAKEOVER TRY IS POSSIBLE. HOW CAN THE BIASED NEWS SAY OBAMA IS NOT A MUSLIM.

    THE LAST WHY, WHY DONT THE BIASED NEWS MEDIA REPORT ALL THIS???????????

    TRUMP IS THE ONLY ONE THAT HAS A CHANCE TO HELP. ITS EITHER HILLARY OR TRUMP. MY CHOICE IS TRUMP.

  • Linda Lee

    The notion of an alt-right is ludicrous. All that pc crap and triggers and safe spaces junk a definite liberal mentality. They are anything BUT liberal. Those in college who can’t resist the brainwashing taking place, will be like Soviet peasants, who believed everything the communists told them. campuses are the most intolerant places in this country.




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