“Shellyne Rodriguez, the former Hunter College professor who was fired after harassing a pro-life group on campus and chasing away a reporter with a machete, has now been hired to teach a sculpture class at Cooper Union,” reports Campus Reform:
Rodriguez is now listed as an “Adjunct Instructor” on the Cooper faculty directory, and a fall schedule dated September 2023 shows Rodriguez listed as the instructor of a new sculpture course.
In May, Campus Reform reported on the viral video showing Rodriguez berating students from Hunter College’s Students for Life chapter for tabling against abortion, calling the display “violent,” “triggering,” and “f*cking propaganda.”
Rodriguez went on to vandalize the display at the end of the clip, scattering the students’ materials onto the ground.
Following the incident on the Hunter campus, Rodriguez was visited at her home by a journalist from the New York Post. As seen in video captured by the Post, Rodriguez threatens him at her door with a machete, holding it to the reporter’s neck and shouting “Get the f–k away from my door, or I’m gonna chop you up with this machete!”
The reporter and his videographer left and headed toward their vehicle before dash-cam footage shows the machete-wielding Rodriguez pursuing the pair and chasing them around the vehicle.
Rodriguez was arraigned on menacing and harassment charges and may reportedly receive a plea deal, according to the Post in August.
In response to Rodriguez’s violent outbursts, Hunter College fired the professor…. Rodriguez said in a statement that the school “capitulated” to “racists, white nationalists, and misogynists.”
Leftist authors like Karl Marx, Ibram Kendi, and Judith Butler dominate the reading lists in college syllabuses, while classical authors like Aristotle and Plato are cited much less often than they used to be in college courses.
Often cited in college syllabi is Ibram Kendi, author of “How To Be An Antiracist.” The “key concept” in that book is that discrimination against whites is the only way to achieve equality: “The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination,” wrote Kendi in that book. Kendi has been praised by progressive publications as a leading “critical race theorist.”
“To love capitalism is to end up loving racism. To love racism is to end up loving capitalism…Capitalism is essentially racist; racism is essentially capitalist,” says Kendi’s book How to Be An Antiracist. That book is a “comprehensive introduction to critical race theory,” gushes the leading progressive media organ Slate.
Cornell University has a class teaching “Queer Marxism.”
Occidental College offers the course “Black Queer Thought.” The course critiques “the demands of heteronormativity, white supremacy, patriarchy and capitalism.”
