NY prof is fired for menacing reporter with a machete

NY prof is fired for menacing reporter with a machete

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norman lebrecht

May 31, 2023

Hunter College of CityUniversity of New York has terminated the employment of  Shellyne Rodriguez as adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Art and Art History.

Ms Rodriguez held a machete to a NY Post journalist’s neck when he came to question her about a campus assault on pro-life students.

She reportedly told the journalist she would ‘chop you up with this machete!’ Luckily, he had brought a photographer.

Hunter College is home to extremists in various arts subjects (more here), including music.

Ms Rodriguez has no shortage of supporters on social media.

Comments

  • Augustine says:

    I’m assuming that the incident took place in an office area.
    Why would someone keep a machete in their office?

  • anon says:

    More from the radicals at CUNY: CUNY prof sounds alarm on ‘far-left lunatics’ running school after commencement speech https://nypost.com/2023/05/31/cuny-prof-claims-school-run-by-far-left-lunatics/

    Jewish groups, allies demand CUNY Law lose funding after student’s ‘vile’ anti-Israel commencement speech
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/jewish-groups-allies-cuny-law-lose-funding-students-vile-anti-israel-commencement-speech

    • NYMike says:

      Your references to Murdoch-owned NY Post and Fox Snooze mark you as suspect. CUNY is the largest and greatest urban university in the US.

      • anon says:

        It isn’t anymore.

      • Alank says:

        NYMike is incapable of accepting facts and condemns the commenter because he does not like the source regardless of its veracity. Classic progressive way of thinking.

        • Sue Sonata Form says:

          Progressivism is like walking uphill on the downhill escalators. You struggle hard to remain in the same place, convincing yourself you’re actually making progress!! Then the escalator breaks down.

      • Lev Deych says:

        It’s a pity Norman doesn’t have a laughing emoji

      • Anon says:

        The problem with this common far left viewpoint is that your “legitimate” sources tend to completely ignore news that doesn’t fit their agenda. Please show me coverage of these aforementioned stories, or of an anti-semitic speaker at Yale, or BLM’s finances, in your preferred news sources.

      • Enquiring Mind says:

        NYMike: with its extremely low tenured/adjunct faculty ratio, how can CUNY even be accredited let alone “great”?

      • astoriacub says:

        CUNY is NOT USC, Penn, University of Chicago, Harvard… just to name a few world class urban universities…

  • Sydney says:

    We can keep hashing this out until the cows come home…their nature is their nature. Firearms, blades, etc. are ALL fine as long as they are in the right hands, not in the hands of primitives. No forgiveness for the woke left who has destroyed the United States, a nation which was once the most powerful country in the world.

    • Desk jockey says:

      Believing that you’re the inheritor of a once great nation which was corrupted by a simultaneously too strong to overcome yet too weak to stand enemy? Sounds like you’re a fascist my dude

  • Fellow NYCer says:

    Yes, but Mx. Shellyne Rodriguez, being BIPOC, stems from a long underrepresented and oppressed minority group that due to its intergenerational trauma had no choice but to respond in kind to a representative of the oppressor, after everything that her people had gone through at the hand of white supremacy.

    See what I did there? Not bad, right?

    Getting ready to open my DIE, I mean DEI consulting business. But gotta decide whether to go blackface or not. Apparently white consultants like Robin Di Angelo charge more! Plus ça change….

    • Desk jockey says:

      Rich white suburban moms will pay millions for your engagements, as long as you remain white

  • J.B says:

    The machete is just one of the tools the progressive left like to use when encountering opinions that disagree with them.

  • Mecky Messer says:

    I bet you she doesn’t listen to Mozart, thats the problem.

    Oh wait, Germans loved their Wagner, Strauss and Beethoven in 1930’s. How did that go?

    The double standard of the people reading this digital pamphlet is hilarious to read.

  • E Rand says:

    USA is such a shithole and its academy a joke. What a sad state of affairs for a formerly great country.

    • Desk jockey says:

      Another fascist has been located. How’s your embracing of traditional values going?

    • Mecky Messer says:

      Yeah, you are right. It was much better with all the slavery, segregation and exploitation (Carnegie sending mercenaries and killing factory workers who protested? Those where the good old days)

      Now tell me, what gives you your moral compass, listening to Bach’s B Minor Mass or perhaps Mozart’s requiem?

      Clearly listening to classical music makes you such a great human being.

  • Sue Sonata Form says:

    Short back and sides anybody?

  • Marc says:

    This detailed article in the NY Post (where the reporter worked) should answer a lot of questions. The professor doesn’t pull any punches, as her tattooed knuckles reveal: https://nypost.com/2023/05/25/nyc-professor-shellyne-rodriguez-surrenders-after-threatening-post-reporter/

    • Desk jockey says:

      You’d also threaten reporters if they came to your doorstep unannounced. You might even do it with a gun

  • Desk jockey says:

    Oh I bet if she were a white man you’d be applauding her for self defence. It’s only bad if the non whites do it! Sound the alarms! Black lady scary oh no!!!?!?!?

    Classical music enthusiasts are a bunch of children

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