And as a side note, Professor Rodriguez is lucky she didn’t try her antics in a less progressive state, or at a less progressive time. Concerned citizens might have intervened with some effect.
Posted on 02/04/2024 9:12:17 PM PST by george76
Shellyne Rodriguez, the machete-wielding former Hunter College professor, has now been fired by the Cooper Union college. The school previously stood with Rodriguez after she trashed a student display and held a machete to the neck of a journalist. It appears that Rodriguez’s anti-Israel comments were finally too much for Cooper Union.
What is interesting is what it takes at both Hunter College and The Cooper Union to be fired.
We previously discussed a videotape of Rodríguez trashing a pro-life student display in New York. Before attacking the table, she told the students, “You’re not educating s–t […] This is f–king propaganda. What are you going to do, like, anti-trans next? This is bulls–t. This is violent. You’re triggering my students.”
The videotape revealed one other thing. At Hunter College, and at other colleges, it seems that trashing a pro-life student display and abusing pro-life students is not considered a firing offense. Hunter College refused to fire Rodríguez.
The PSC Graduate Center, the labor organization of graduate and professional schools at the City University of New York, supported that decision and said Rodríguez was “justified” in trashing the display, which the organization described as “dangerously false propaganda” and “disinformation.”
Rodríguez later put a machete to the neck of a reporter, threatened to chop him up and then chased a news crew down a street with the machete in hand. Somewhere between the machete to the neck and chasing the reporters down the street, Hunter College finally decided that Rodríguez had to go.
Rodríguez denounced the school for having “capitulated” to “racists, white nationalists, and misogynists.” She explained that her firing was just a continuation of “attacks on women, trans people, black people, Latinx people, migrants, and beyond.”
The Cooper Union, however, refused to sever ties with Rodríguez, 47, and decided that she should continue to teach her students. According to the New York Post, Rodriguez attributed her firing to her anti-Israeli comments. She declared
“Cooper Union has fired me because of a social media post I made about ‘Zionists’… effective immediately. This is fascism. Ya’ll are learning about it in real time. Stay strong, [stay] brave, stay defiant, don’t bite your tongue, and drink plenty of water! Pa-lante!”
Students cried foul. One group wrote the dean to object that “this firing represents an intense escalation of McCarthyist repression meant to intimidate and punish those in support of a Free Palestine, and must be resisted to prevent its further normalization and the ongoing genocide in Gaza.”
There is a legitimate question over terminations of faculty for statements made outside of a school on social media. However, there was ample reason not to have a machete-wielding maniac teach students. Cooper Union, however, found the social media more menacing than the machete.
Rodriguez participated in a CUNY for Palestine virtual panel in which she spoke about the possibility of a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement rent strike in New York involving not making rent payments to Jewish landlords or landlords who support Israel. She is quoted as calling for the targeting of pro-Israeli figures, adding “[y]ou probably wait tables where they go to brunch. Find them, go to their offices, don’t let them sleep.” She also called former Bronx Borough President Rubén Díaz Jr. a “roach” and “Zionist lapdog.”
Notably, others on the left have encouraged such harassment of those with opposing views, including Rep. Maxine Waters, D-CA. Others have supported harassing conservative justices at their homes and offices.
What is ironic about the objection to McCarthyism is that Rodriguez is part of the “radical chic” in academia leading the mob and silencing others.
The one benefit of this controversy is that it is finally confirmed what it takes to be fired by The Cooper Union if you are on the left. Trashing pro-life displays or threatening journalists are clearly no barrier for employment with the school.
Just to clarify, the Nutty Professor Chop’Chop is no longer teaching at ANY college right now? If any reporter asks for an interview. I suspect it will be done on ZOOM.
Someone should pass out leaflets at the border telling illegal aliens that dorms are free to illegals at every U.S. college and university. Free food at the cafeterias and canteens too.
Typical leftist entitled psychopath. She should have been arrested for the machete episode but this is now typical behavior for the Left.
Of course in DA Bragg’s black MARXIST and fascist world,it’s okay for this to happen
Hoping he has a totally debilitating heart attack and cannot speak or walk for the rest of his psychopathic life.
I can't believe anybody could be so incredibly ignorant and stupid as to make this statement. It makes my head hurt.
And as a side note, Professor Rodriguez is lucky she didn’t try her antics in a less progressive state, or at a less progressive time. Concerned citizens might have intervened with some effect.
If this were Weimar Germany, would she have been a red front or a brown shirt? Seems like she’s got all the competing ideologies fighting it out in her head.
Only send illegals to private leftist colleges(Oh! Berlin, Harvard, Stanford, etc.)......state schools will seize money from taxpayers to pay for the illegals.
“stood with Rodriguez after she trashed a student display and held a machete to the neck of a journalist”
The things you see when you don’t have your 870…
Kids raised in a virtual world...where violence is how you feel...not really relating to actual physical threats and the painful consequences of physical contact ..
.....kinda’ like the people on the planets Vendikar and Elminiar VII in Star Trek TOS.
That’s an awesome idea, man. We really need to start letting them feel the suck of their own ideologies.
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What a vile piece of human garbage.
With machetes. Don't forget the machetes.
This woman is mentally ill.
“This is fascism.”
I dont think she knows what that word means.
She certainly does — since a cornerstone of leftism is redefinition of words.
“Fascism” to a leftist is “anything I disagree with whatsoever” and uses the real word to leverage regular people who speak and use regular English.
What’s amusing is that all their pejoratives — racist, sexist, (insert anything)-phobe, etc. all mean “anything I disagree with whatsoever.” For instance, from the article:
>One group wrote the dean to object that “this firing represents an intense escalation of McCarthyist repression meant to intimidate and punish those in support of a Free Palestine, and must be resisted to prevent its further normalization and the ongoing genocide in Gaza.”
“McCarthyist,” “free palestine,’ ‘normalization,’ and ‘genocide’ all mean “thing I don’t like” and are bleated out rapid-fire.
Meanwhile on the right people tend to carefully dissect and disprove every such statement to educate their readers ... useless. It’s like arguing about Latin case endings with a cat.
I don't see any evidence that it is actually a woman.
According to WIKI, she has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree attained after completing a GED. She is a high school drop out.
How does someone get hired as a “professor” with just an undergrad degree? I thought colleges required at least a Masters, if not a PHD? American schools really are scrapping the bottom of the barrel.
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