EXCLUSIVE: Anti-PC Professor Suing NYU Speaks Out

dailycaller.com ^ | Patrick Granger

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Michael Rectenwald — the PC-bashing, “deplorable” New York University professor behind the Twitter handle @antipcnyuprof — is suing NYU and four of his colleagues for defamation, alleging that he was subjected to a campaign of ostracism and harassment when he criticized campus political correctness.

Rectenwald’s suit, filed in Manhattan Supreme Court on Friday, alleges that current and former NYU faculty members used official email distribution lists to defame him in May of 2017, calling him a “right-wing misogynist,” an “asshole” and “Satan” in messages sent to over 100 NYU faculty and administrators.

When contacted by The Daily Caller, John Beckman, New York University’s chief spokesman, brusquely dismissed the allegations. “The suit is without merit,” Beckman stated.

If Professor Rectenwald is a villain, he is a surprisingly personable one. Having readily agreed to an interview to discuss the state of campus politics, the 58-year-old instructor and author cracked a few jokes before spending nearly two hours reflecting on the smear campaign he says he endured when he spoke out against PC obsession on campus. [Disclaimer: the author of this article is a senior at New York University]

“The thing that is interesting here is that they were saying that because I don’t think like them, I am sick and mentally ill,” Rectenwald said. “So you have to be crazy to not believe what they do. Now, it may be true that you have to be crazy to say it, because look what happened!”

So what inspired Rectenwald, a former self-declared “longtime communist” and “ex-leftist,” to crusade against the screeching menace of campus leftism?

“In the fall of 2016,” the NYU professor recounted, “I was noting an increase of this social justice ideology on campuses, and it started to really alarm me.

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Professor Rectenwald is a friend of Jordan Peterson.

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We fully support Professor Rectenwald’s right to speak his mind and we welcome civil discourse on the issues that concern him,” the letter concluded. “But as 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.

open letter written by several colleagues from his department in the Liberal Studies Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Working Group.

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My gosh, what a pompous group of privileged asses!

[LittleBillyInfidel]

Mental adolescents (”liberals”) are sooooooo easy to successfully sue! They crumble well before deposition time and settle out of court. Just watch and follow!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks RoosterRedux.

Rectenwald’s suit, filed in Manhattan Supreme Court on Friday, alleges that current and former NYU faculty members used official email distribution lists to defame him in May of 2017, calling him a “right-wing misogynist,” an “***hole” and “Satan” in messages sent to over 100 NYU faculty and administrators.

[WayneS]

If you have a teleological model of pedagogy in which you are trying to steer students to a particular end, that is not teaching. That is actually indoctrination. You can do that if you have a political party, but this is absolutely not the role of education, at all. This is absolutely anti-education and anti-intellectual.

Exactly!

It is amazing to me that such thoughts are now considered "polarizing".

[WashingtonSource]

It’s refreshing to see someone brave enough to speak out. That’s how the radical left can be defeated — when men of good will speak out.

[GOPJ]

PC liberals are afraid we’re on to them... they keep their cushy jobs by having the same ‘group think’ - not by any merit.

[SunkenCiv]

They’re afraid we’re gettin’ uppity.