[ScottBurson]

No, that's not what happened at all. Check out this passage from an interview he gave:

MR: I don’t support Trump at all. I hate him — I think he’s horrible. I’m hiding amongst the alt-right, alright? And the point is, this character is meant to exhibit and illustrate the notion that it’s this crazy social-justice-warrior-knee-jerk-reaction-triggered-happy-safe-space-seeking-blah, blah, blah, blah culture that it’s producing this alt-right. Now, I’m not dumb enough to go there. And my own politics are very strong — I’m a left communist. But I think that in fact, the crazier and crazier that this left gets, this version of the left, the more the more the alt-right is going to be laughing their asses off plus getting more pissed. Every time a speaker is booed off campus or shooed off campus because they might say something that bothers someone, that just feeds the notion that the left is totalitarian, and they have a point. [0]

[0] http://www.nyunews.com/2016/10/24/qa-with-a-deplorable-nyu-p...

[tdb7893]

That might have been with his intent but the fact of the matter is that he created a twitter account that is explicitly connected to his employer and then didn't even meet the incredibly low bar of being either civil or academic with it. It's like the youtubers that prank people and wonder why people get mad because "it's just a prank, bro!" It being a social experiment doesn't shield you from all of the consequences of you actions.