Michael Rectenwald

So it started in 2016 in the fall.

Really, when things really ramped up.

And there was all this hysteria on campus about Trump and anybody who didn't denounce him or say he was a fascist or a racist or whatever was deemed the same.

And that's exactly what they tried on me because I was saying that the response to this was insane what they were doing on campus.

They were instituting bias reporting hotlines so that students could anonymously report their

professors for so-called microaggressions and bias infractions, whatever the hell.

They never defined what that was.

Wow.

So this was kind of like a hotline, you know, like I considered it like a surveillance system.

Yeah.

And then it was like safe spaces and things like that where, you know, people could go to these spaces so they could get protected from harmful speech.

These included petting animals and pacifiers.

No way.

So I made fun of that.

After that, they came after me.

No, no, no.

Actually, after I was put on leave, they coerced me into a leave of absence, ushered me off campus.

I was up for promotion to full professor.

Wow.

They couldn't deny my promotion, so I got the full professorship in this period.