'Deplorable' professor creates
'anti-indoctrination mill' with
new education startup
Just the News,
by
Greg Piper
Original Article
Posted By: Hermoine,
5/4/2021 9:49:06 AM
Michael Rectenwald got himself chased out of New York University when the self-identified communist copped to tweeting against trigger warnings, safe spaces and bias reporting under the pseudonym "Deplorable NYU Prof."
The professor left two years ago with a golden parachute — the result of a legal settlement with the private university that included a retirement package.
He's not content anymore with just writing polemical books and fiction in retirement. Now Rectenwald is scouting for academics to join an educational startup, American Scholars, that is launching this summer.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
TennDon 5/4/2021 10:07:55 AM (No. 775063)
As the OP says his website says “ex-Marxist”. So, it would appear he saw the light of reason.
“In Beyond Woke, he brings his unique perspective as an ex-Marxist and civil libertarian to bear on leftist culture, with its abandonment of traditional morality and emphasis on collective social identities…”
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 5/4/2021 10:13:06 AM (No. 775068)
Hmmm. "Self-identified communist"......that does NOT make me want to support him, although the things he is now saying sound very much the opposite of that.
Be wary....but remember that the great and wonderful Thomas Sowell started out as a communist, too.
Perhaps, just perhaps, this worm has turned also. But be wary until he proves himself. He is saying all the right things, now.
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FTA: "Matthew Pohl, the startup's Austin-based founder and CEO, told Just the News he was baffled that so few companies are interested in making education cheaper and more attainable. 'The market is yearning for this,' he said."
This is my question. Where are the entrepreneurs and education "reformers"? These disruptive pandemic times are a perfect time to get these "alternatives" to government schools off the ground and running. Where are they? Seems another case of the issue not really being the issue.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 5/4/2021 10:40:18 AM (No. 775095)
Re: #3
The Gate Keepers of Big Ed are entwined in government like a malignant tumor. Seeking accreditation means appeasing the very people they are trying to subvert. The educrats in government are the fleas, ticks, and mange of any effort to reform. The Big Ed textbook/digital services/standardized test companies leverage their wealth to subvert every effort to reform education and testing.
The solution is to show the accreditation organizations for what they are - organs of Big Ed, educrats, and the cesspools that are schools of education in universities across the nation. It is time to create meaningful accreditation that circumvents these corrupt and, in many cases, evil people and organizations. Only then can anything of real value be established that can institute long-term change.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
columba 5/4/2021 11:08:53 AM (No. 775133)
"Are you now, or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?"
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Judy W. 5/4/2021 12:11:24 PM (No. 775189)
I am very heartened by this. Like the CEO, I have long wondered why more people don't take advantage of the huge potential market for independent education. They are smart to skip accreditation, especially since the accreditation companies are just as woke and ridiculous as the universities themselves. Perhaps accreditation has kept other entrepreneurs from attempting this kind of thing, but if so there is no reason to pay any attention to it. Families can evaluate educational institutions themselves and there will be lots of reviews to help once they get started.
I wouldn't worry about Rectenwald's previous communist sympathies. Most ex-communists are passionately anti-communist now, since they have looked at communism and communists close up. I was one myself, like David Horowitz, and there's hardly anything I hate more than that satanic ideology.
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#4 - There's your in-the-box answer. Now, where are all the "reformers", capitalists and disgruntled parents to actively move this forward? Once again, it's looking like an issue best left an issue. Don't blame the Gate Keepers of Big Ed for the apparent sloth of so-called activists in accomplishing anything. Just send them money.
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Just a quick "correction" -- this article along with the "Dig In" article that it connects to states that he is a self-identified communist -- he most certainly is not. If you read his bio on his website, he clearly states the opposite, so not sure why that was inserted into the article.