Criticizing today’s culture of political correctness can have an adverse effect on one’s career, as New York University professor Michael Rectenwald learned this past week.

Rectenwald, a clinical assistant professor of liberal studies, created a fake twitter account called “Deplorable NYU Prof” back in September so he could lambast the current campus culture of “safe spaces,” “trigger warnings” and more. But after he revealed himself to be the one behind the Twitter account, an Orwellian-sounding campus committee deemed his tweets to be an act of “incivility,” and he has now been put on paid leave.