{"id":371427,"date":"2018-07-30T13:18:32","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T12:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-red-pilled-professors-memoir\/"},"modified":"2018-07-30T13:18:32","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T12:18:32","slug":"a-red-pilled-professors-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-red-pilled-professors-memoir\/","title":{"rendered":"A Red Pilled Professor\u2019s Memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Springtime for Snowflakes: \u2018Social Justice\u2019 and Its Postmodern Parentage<\/em><\/a> by Michael Rectenwald is an eclectic book that merges a personal academic memoir, a lucid outline of the worldviews behind the rise of \u201cpolitical correctness\u201d and \u201csocial justice warriors,\u201d and an edifying and often hilarious assembly of Twitter tweets and Facebook posts.<\/p>\n

Understand that this book is first and foremost a memoir, not a political or philosophical treatise. It\u2019s about Professor Rectenwald\u2019s personal journey to where he is today in the realm of ideas and politics. Like any good story, it\u2019s a book filled with crises that demand resolutions.<\/p>\n

The most famous being the raison d\u2019\u00eatre <\/em>of the book: his decision to create the anonymous @antipcnyuprof<\/a> Twitter account to playfully taunt what he saw as SJW ideology gone amuck at college campuses, including but not limited to his own New York University. Yet that was only the beginning.<\/p>\n


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\n<\/span>After he finally revealed his identity through an interview in his school\u2019s student newspaper, an open letter appeared, written by members of the Liberal Studies Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Working Group, denouncing him as being, in their words, \u201cguilty in the content and structure of his thinking\u201d (p 24). Supposedly to help his \u201cmental health,\u201d soon he was pressured to take paid leave for a semester. His return, unfortunately, was met with a near universal shunning and a subsequent avalanche of verbal abuses and libels in an e-mail group from his colleagues.<\/p>\n

In Springtime for Snowflakes<\/em>, Rectenwald refreshingly provides honest self-reflection. His intellectual journey begins not from…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Springtime for Snowflakes: \u2018Social Justice\u2019 and Its Postmodern Parentage by Michael Rectenwald is an eclectic book that merges a personal academic memoir, a lucid outline of the worldviews behind the rise of \u201cpolitical correctness\u201d and \u201csocial justice warriors,\u201d and an edifying and often hilarious assembly of Twitter tweets and Facebook posts. Understand that this book […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-371427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}