Only thing shocking about Shellyne Rodríguez machete attack was a college actually firing a woke professor


Professor Shellyne Rodríguez is out of a job.

Hunter School fired the artwork professor after she held a machete to the neck of a New York Publish reporter and threatened to “chop you up.”

Probably the most exceptional facet of the story might not be a professor brandishing a knife, however a school really discovering a foundation to fireplace an activist educational.

Hunter School, in any case, had refused to fireplace Rodríguez after she trashed a pro-life desk run by college students.

She just isn’t the primary educational to assault a pro-life show and even assault others.

Certainly, prior professors had been celebrated at their colleges for taking such actions in opposition to pro-life or conservative shows.

A pair days earlier, Rodríguez noticed college students with pro-life materials on the school.

She was captured on a videotape telling the scholars that “you’re not educating s–t […] That is f–king propaganda. What are you going to do, like, anti-trans subsequent? That is bulls–t. That is violent. You’re triggering my college students.”

In contrast to the professor, the scholars remained calm and respectful.

One even stated “sorry” to the accusation that being pro-life was triggering for her college students.

It didn’t assist.


Shellyne Rodriguez.
Hunter School artwork professor Shellyne Rodríguez has been fired.
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Rodríguez continued to rave, stating, “No you’re not — as a result of you’ll be able to’t also have a f–king child. So that you don’t even know what that’s. Get this s–t the f–okay out of right here.”

In an Instagram submit, she is then proven trashing the desk. 

Hunter School, nevertheless, didn’t take into account this unhinged assault to be enough to terminate Rodríguez.

Not surprisingly, Rodríguez was undeterred.

When the New York Publish’s Reuven Fenton went to her condo to ask her in regards to the earlier incident, Rodríguez got here out wielding a machete and put it to his neck.

She then threatened him, “Get the f–okay away from my door! Get the f–okay away from my door!” 

After briefly going inside, the armed Rodríguez pursued the reporter and his photographer as they tried to go away.

On the road, she threatened that “if I see you on this block yet another f–king time, you’re gonna … Get the f–okay off the block! Get the f–okay out of right here, yo!”

She then chased them and kicked the reporter within the shins.

That was lastly sufficient for Hunter School, although it’s nonetheless not clear the place the precise termination line is between trashing shows and abusing college students (not a fireable offense) and a machete assault (fireable).

Earlier than she was fired, Rodríguez was defended by college students and colleagues.

The PSC Graduate Middle, the labor group of graduate {and professional} colleges on the Metropolis College of New York, really stated Rodríguez was “justified” in trashing the show, which the group described as “dangerously false propaganda” and “disinformation.”  


Shellyne Rodriguez.
Rodríguez was recorded accosting pro-life college students.
Twitter/@StudentsforLife

Shellyne Rodriguez.
One pupil stated “sorry” to the accusation that being pro-life was triggering.
Twitter/@StudentsforLife

Shellyne Rodriguez.
The professor is proven trashing the scholars’ desk. 
Twitter/@StudentsforLife

The assertion of the middle captures the double normal on many campuses in the present day.

The reality is that, if the show was a pro-choice or Black Lives Matter show, the professor would have been canned earlier than the final flyer made it to the ground.

Relating to heckling, attacking or threatening conservatives, nevertheless, all bets are off.

Former CUNY legislation dean Mary Lu Bilek even insisted that disrupting a speech on free speech was free speech.

One other latest instance comes from the State College of New York at Albany, the place sociology professor Renee Overdyke shut down a pro-life show after which resisted arrest.

One pupil is heard screaming, “She’s a [expletive] professor.”

That’s exactly the purpose! Overdyke was exhibiting college students that they don’t have to tolerate opposing views on campus.

There is no such thing as a report of any self-discipline of Overdyke, who can be being supported by many on campus.


A knife is held to throat.
When the New York Publish’s Reuven Fenton went to Rodríguez’s condo to ask her in regards to the earlier incident, she got here out wielding a machete.
Robert Miller

Now we have seen a gentle stream of professors shouting down audio system, committing property injury, collaborating in riots, verbally attacking college students, and even taking violent motion in protests. 

Others, like Fresno State College public well being professor Dr. Gregory Thatcher, recruited college students to destroy pro-life messages.

On the College of California Santa Barbara, professors really rallied round feminist research affiliate professor Mireille Miller-Younger, who bodily assaulted pro-life advocates and tore down their show. 

Regardless of pleading responsible to legal assault, she was not fired and acquired overwhelming help from the scholars and college.


Rodriguez chasing reporter with a knife.
Rodríguez pursued the reporter and his photographer as they tried to go away.
Robert Miller

Shellyne Rodriguez.
“Get the f–okay off the block! Get the f–okay out of right here,” she threatened.
Robert Miller

She was later honored as a mannequin for girls advocates.

Different college confine themselves to calling or justifying the violence of others.

We noticed professors advocating “detonating white folks,” denouncing police, calling for Republicans to undergo, strangling cops, celebrating the loss of life of conservatives, calling for the killing of Trump supporters, supporting the homicide of conservative protesters, and different outrageous statements.

College of Rhode Island professor Erik Loomis defended the homicide of a conservative protester and stated he noticed “nothing unsuitable” with such acts of violence. 

The college later elevated Loomis to director of graduate research of historical past.

He continued to espouse such views as denouncing “science, statistics, and expertise [as] all inherently racist.”

Regardless of my disgust with many of those feedback, I supported these college as a matter of free speech.

However the dwindling variety of college on the best get no such help.

Conservatives and libertarians perceive that they don’t have any cushion or safety.

Even a single, later-deleted tweet may end up in suspension.

Shellyne Rodríguez might have been fired, however likelihood is some new school will endorse her work  exploring “methods of survival in opposition to erasure and subjugation.”

She may wish to apply survival abilities with out the machete.

Jonathan Turley is an legal professional and a professor at George Washington College Legislation College.