Moonbat Professor Shellyne Rodriguez Fired Again
The moonbat practice of calling things the opposite of what they are is never more jarring than when they call Jews Nazis like BBC Senior Scheduling Coordinator Dawn Queva or those who defend them fascists like machete-wielding NYC professor Shellyne Rodriguez, who has managed to get herself fired again.
When Rodriguez trashed a student prolife display, Hunter College sided with her. But when she attacked a journalist with a machete, the optics were so bad, they had to let her go. So she has been doing her teaching at Cooper Union. Now she shrieks:
“Cooper Union has fired me because of a social media post I made about ‘Zionists,’” Rodriguez, 47, wrote in an email to students a week after the spring semester kicked off.
Her Jan. 23 email was shared the next day on Instagram by the Cooper Union Students for Justice in Palestine.
“This is fascism,” she wrote.
Rodriguez is in a poor position to complain about fascists.
It is not clear which posts or comments got her canned but in January Rodriguez participated in a CUNY for Palestine panel and encouraged protesting landlords and business people with ties to Israel. Critics said she spewed antisemitic tropes.
These include comparing Jews and their defenders to cockroaches.
Speaking of which, the pro-Hamas crowd has her back:
The pro-Palestinian student group slammed her firing as “an intense escalation of repression” that “must be resisted.”
“The Cooper Union wrongfully terminated a valued educator who is indispensable to the community and the academic livelihood of students,” the group wrote in a letter to the administration defending her for speaking out against “genocide and settler-colonial violence.”
Pretending that Israelis are colonialist settlers for living on land that has been theirs for millennia is a lie used to equate them with Americans. As the maniacs ruling Iran can confirm, Israel is the Little Satan; America is the Great Satan.
Rodriguez’s supporters are yelping about McCarthyism. As Jonathan Turley observes,
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.
It isn’t easy for a Woman of Color to get fired for being too obnoxious of a moonbat for New York City colleges. But no matter how far out on a limb liberals go, there will always be some that make the rest look almost sane by comparison. They are the future of liberalism, dragging the rest along behind.
Turley continues:
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.
Similarly, Claudine Gay’s reign at Harvard ended not so much because she is an Affirmative Action moron whose scholarship has consisted largely of plagiarism, but because she refused to condemn calls for genocide of Jews. Jews still carry weight on the left. We’ll see how long this remains the case, now that they are regarded as European.
On a tip from Wiggins.
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