We have previously discussed professors who have violently attacked students or destroyed displays with opposing views. This month there was the Albany professor who shutdown a pro-life display and then resisted arrest. The latest such case comes from Hunter College where Art Professor Shellyne Rodríguez trashed a pro-life display while badgering them for “f***ing propaganda” that was “triggering” for her students. Rodríguez is an adjunct professor teaching art at Hunter and is shown in a video telling the students “You’re not educating S**t […] This is f**king propaganda. What are you going to do, like, anti-trans next?”She continued: “This is b******t. This is violent. You’re triggering my students.”One of the students actually says that he is “sorry” if her students felt triggered, but Rodríguez screamed at him “No you’re not — because you can’t even have a f**king baby. So you don’t even know what that is. Get this sh*t the f**k out of here.”In an Instagram post, the group Students for Life posted the video. The video is also posted on other social media sites.
It is obvious that the display is not just triggering for Rodríguez’s students given the professor’s unhinged response. It is all part of an anti-free speech movement that seeks to treat speech as harmful. Once this foundation is laid, any speech can then be curtailed or denied for the protection of others.
This is unfortunately not surprising. Years ago, most of us would have been shocked as we were by the conduct of University of Missouri communications professor Melissa Click who directed a mob against a student journalist covering a Black Lives Matter event. (Click was later hired by Gonzaga University). Since that time, we have seen a steady stream of professors joining students in shouting down, committing property damage, participating in riots, verbally attacking students, or even taking violent action in protests. Others like Fresno State University Public Health Professor Dr. Gregory Thatcher recruited students to destroy pro-life messages. At University of California- Santa Barbara, professors actually rallied around a professor who physically assaulted pro-life advocates and tore down their display.
As has been the case in many of these incidents, Rodríguez was supported by others at the college in violently opposing dissenting viewpoints. The group CUNY For Abortion Rights declared support for Rodríguez and said that she was “justified” in her actions. Her trashing of the display was presented after an effort to “constructive[] critique” the students’ exhibit. Furthermore, she is portrayed as acting only after she “correctly assessed the damage” the exhibit was doing to Hunter College’s “learning environment.”
Accordingly, trashing the display was justified because Rodríguez viewed the students as “propagating dangerous propaganda” and offering “inaccurate depictions” of abortions from “unscientific sources.”
In a chilling reminder of the use of disinformation as an excuse of censorship, the group declared that “disinformation should never be allowed to take root at our college.”
There is now a letter being signed to show the college support for Rodríguez and her trashing the display.
Ironically, Rodríguez describes her work as “depict[ing] spaces and subjects engaged in strategies of survival against erasure and subjugation.” It appears that she also specializes in erasing the views of others.
The problem is that, while this conduct may be allowed or even encouraged at private colleges, Hunter College is a public college and it is subject to the First Amendment. In this case, Rodríguez is claiming to be acting as a faculty member in protection of her students. Even if she is not viewed as acting in an official capacity, there is still the question of how the college will address the assault. Thus far, the incident has only appeared on conservative sites since attacks on pro-life centers or figures has proven to hold little interest for mainstream media. However, President Jennifer J. Raab is now faced with an adjunct professor who trashed a display, verbally assaulted students, and declared that opposing views should not be tolerated on campus.
Raab now has a choice to make in either supporting free speech by taking action against Rodríguez or confirming that the college’s commitment to free speech is a mere pretense.
The Dezis deny women’s dignity and agency, and sanction “life deemed unworthy of life”, under their Pro-Choice ethical religion in sanctuary States, clinics, corporations, etc.
In other news: “Two weeks into Conversational Indonesian 101 course, students outraged to discover the language has no gender-specific pronouns, claim language is not divisive enough to foster infighting and power-mongering.”
Students at The College of William and Harry are demanding tuition refunds and the Registrar tender xir resignation after the language arts department began its inaugural Conversational Indonesian course. Frustrated that the language does not “facilitate the requisite anger and discord necessary in today’s higher education”, students fell to the floor, kicking and pounding their fists as they regressed into three-year-old style tantrums–stemming from their inability to express themselves.
Student Ann Hedonia accused the registrar’s office of patriarchy and racism for introducing a “disempowering” language such as Indonesian into the curricula, yet expressed bewilderment at how–in her eyes–great leaders such as Sukarno and Suharto could have maintained such iron-fisted rule over the archipelago without the use of gender pronouns to exert supremacy over the masses.
‘It’s a mystery to me how they reigned unchallenged a total of fifty years without weapons such as Xim, Xir, and Zirs to divide and conquer.'”
What can one say when the CUNY For Abortion Rights groups (supposedly educated) says those advocating for life are providing “dangerous propaganda” and a “constructive critique.” with her foul mouth and violent actions?
Leftists on the blog. Look in a mirror. Shellyne Rodríguez represents you.
“In an Instagram post, the group Students for Life posted the video” unfortunately the hyperlink takes us to this instagram account CUNY for Abortion Rights
https://www.instagram.com/p/CsG7YR2O8jR/
“Triggering” and ‘microaggressions’ [microscopic aggression?] are a type of hypochondria spread by social contagion.
In short they are symptoms of a neurotic and sometimes psychotic person.
Evaluate accordingly.
Put differently, this behavior is more of a psychiatric problem than a free speech problem.
Young,
I would agree with that.
She is a Marxist. Nuf said
Send her to Cuba and watch her instantly become a patriotic American who can sing the Star Spangled Banner in 4 part harmony, demand 2nd Amendment rights and learn how to speak flawless English so as to communicate with an American attorney to get her out of Cuba. Heck, throw her into the Straits of Florida and see if she sinks. If she floats that means she is a witch
Ive been fighting Commies in America for decades, and they are boring, predictable, and stupid. She earned an MFA Degree in her 40s! Who earns an MFA Degree except really dumb witches
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Estovir: “Send her to Cuba and watch her instantly become a patriotic American”
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Agreed. Years ago an attorney friend told me what as a boy he witnessed in his village in Cuba. His father and several others were summarily shot. I have no words for brutality on this scale.
A stint in Cuba would partly cure Rodriguez’ leftist ideology. Apparently a stay in a Russian prison can change attitudes as well: Griner now stands for the National Anthem.
One of the grave injustices that the MSM have perpetrated on Americans is in choosing to not report on the atrocities that Marxists like Fidel Castro have done. You can always spot a Leftist when they breathlessly compare a Republican to Adolph Hitler or Nazis. Thats bc they love Marxists. Hitler killed about 6 million, but Joseph Stalin killed between 30-40 million while Mao Zedong killed between 50-60 million. No one knows how many Castro killed. It is such an infuriating topic that, for understandable reasons, all of my life I have been traumatized by what Communists do. I have my own stories from Castro’s atrocities within my family which I will not discuss. Thus, the Left in America, as Seth Myers knows, earns my unadulterated hatred and vehement scorn, which is why lately I have been commenting more than usual. I am convinced Marxism has permeated our US institutions, including Merrick Garland, DOJ, FBI and the idiot who currently occupies the White House.
The Miami Herald was always detested by Cubans in Miami, and the Herald hated us right back. Not surprisingly the Marxism of the Miami Herald has been marinating, to quote Bari Weiss, in the NYT and the other flagship MSM papers of America. For everytime they mention Nazis or Hitler, hold them accountable for what they have enabled under Stalin, Mao and Castro, particularly Hollywood elites like Michael Moore, Robert Redford, and too many to list.
” I have my own stories from Castro’s atrocities within my family which I will not discuss. Thus, the Left in America, as Seth Myers knows, earns my unadulterated hatred and vehement scorn, which is why lately I have been commenting more than usual.
I have had the same, Estovir. I sometimes mention that to Enigma when he tells me how terrible things are, and I mention that to others who tell me I should be paying reparations. I can name those murdered, tortured, and incarcerated in my family.
What sticks in my mind is that Germany, in a democratic manner, placed Hitler in control. If that could happen in Germany, it is a possibility. The Durham Report, if read as a novel, tells how things like that can happen.
We have to be very vigilant, and though I believe in helping our fellow man, that should not be a primary purpose of government. Such power leads to despotism and what many of us have experienced.
Estovir, I get the point of your remark and agree, but we do need some of the finer things in life. I like art, and Cuba has many fine artists. Since you lived in Miami, at one time, I feel confident you went to one of the many art exhibitions where Cuban art was shown. As an example, Wilfredo Lam studied at Havana’s School of Fine Arts.
I’m liberal. I object to Rodríguez’s pushing the items off the table. She is free to say what she wants (freedom of speech cuts both ways), but I think professors should model support for freedom of speech, to help students learn to support it as well. I also think your choice to caricature and demonize an amorphous “they” is counterproductive. I favor free speech and objectivity in journalism. I don’t “hate American values” or “want to burn it all down.” Who is the “they” that you’re talking about? It certainly isn’t all liberals.
This was meant as a response to oldmanfromkansas’s 8:57am comment.
I reviewed the video. I probably should have to begin with. I would agree that she is not “screaming,” at least by my definition. She probably didn’t damage any property, but I can’t tell for sure. Maybe a charge of disorderly conduct could be justified because she was physically provocative, to say the least.
I think you already agree that for someone with authority over students to act this way is not free speech. It is intimidation and deserves unpaid leave so that the students understand she won’t get away with this. I still think she needs to see a counselor or shrink.
If the school refuses to act, the students should sue the school and file a charge of disorderly conduct to support their free speech case. If the cops refuse to arrest her, sue the city, too.
“I think you already agree that for someone with authority over students to act this way is not free speech.”
I think professors should model support for freedom of speech, to help students learn to support it as well, but what she instead chose to say (not her actions) is also protected speech. I agree that the school should condemn her actions. We all have to learn to deal peacefully with those we disagree with.
Why are you downplaying what this “professor” did by trashing a display and cursing and screaming like a raving lunatic, by labeling it, .. “pushing the items off the table”?
I know why. Question is do you know why.
She didn’t scream. She did push some of the handouts off the table. I criticize her behavior, but everyone is better served by discussing it truthfully.
You like the four letter words.
She did push some of the handouts off the table
Jan 6 was rambunctious tourists getting out of hand.
Anonymous, you say you are a liberal who is in favor of free speech but you support a political party that has called for even more censorship. You support a party that has done everything it can to ban speech on Twitter and has demonized reporters who have exposed the truth. You support a party that has demonized FBI whistleblowers. It must follow from your post that you are distancing yourself from the Democratic Party. As the old saying goes, if you don’t reject the positions on censorship by the Democratic Party it ain’t worth a hill a beans. Your concern for free speech is a charade without the rejection of the Democratic Party. Without that your “I’m a good guy” statement doesn’t pass the smell test.
Both the Democratic AND Republican parties call for some censorship. You demonize Democrats and give Republicans a pass. I won’t join you in your double standards.
Anonymous, you are correct. Both Democrats and Republicans call for some censorship. The Democrats call for censorship of important news stories such as the Hunter laptop and Republicans call for the censorship of pornography provided to school children. The “they both do it” argument doesn’t wash. It really is such a juvenile response.
If you think that Republicans’ only censorship efforts are for porn (which is already illegal to provide to minors), you’ve got your head in the sand.
Anonymous, you just admitted that porn is illegal but you’ve made a big deal about Republicans banning it in schools.
Mr. Sandman send Anonymous a dream
Where Republications don’t like kids at drag queen shows
So she can scream
Mr. Sandman please turn on your magic stream
And send Anonymous
Oh send Anonymous
Please please send Anonymous a dream.
“you’ve made a big deal about Republicans banning it in schools.”
I haven’t.
Lying about liberals is one of your favorite ways of trolling.
Anonymous, I’m glad you agree. Free speech is a 2way street.
I also think your choice to caricature and demonize an amorphous “they” is counterproductive.
“they” Yes for sure, drag out your trademark pedantry.
KS oldman is accurate in describing Democrat agenda objectives.
We need to go no further than when Obama declared ‘we are days away from fundamentally changing America.’
Fundamental: serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying:
Very clearly the new Democrat President Obama, had a mission to change foundation of the United States of America. He had spoken of his disdain for the Constitution, what with its ‘negative rights’ against the government, in favor of ‘the People’.
I don’t think it’s useful to continue to express shock that they’re fundamentally un-American. They would wear such a label with pride because they hate American values.
Yes judging “their” own words, and matching actions, is appropriate.
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Who is the “they” that you’re talking about? It certainly isn’t all liberals.
We’ve been down this road before. I’m not talking about liberals, but the Left. Liberals are people like Daniel Patrick Moynihan (hey I’m not claiming I’m not old). I can have a conversation with liberals. We agree on the goals but not on how to get there. With the Left, we don’t agree on the goals. Where liberals are reasonable, the Left is militant and unreasonable. Liberals are either few and far between these days, or they’ve largely been cowed into silence by the extreme elements of their party. The rise of the extremes on the Left, to eclipse the power of the true liberals, is a common trait that goes back to the French Revolution.
Whether the left or the right is more “militant and unreasonable” is a matter of opinion. I’m on the left. You and I don’t necessarily agree on goals. But you and I have had conversations. How can the country make headway with our problems in a healthy way if you believe that you can’t even talk to a large swath of the population?
TBH, I am not optimistic that this country can make such headway. 25 years ago I was, but the rising militancy and trickery of the Left has changed all that. I don’t agree with your both-sidesism. I see a huge difference between the right and the left. The left is marching through all our institutions and burning them to the ground – figuratively speaking mostly, but occasionally literally. The right is not doing this, not even close. I believe as events unfold, you will see that I am correct.
Perhaps the theory of the fourth turning is right, and we are going to go through hell before the next phase emerges.
And I see rising fascism on the right and think it worse than the left.
A double standard create that exact problem. Your life has been taken over by a double standard and that is demonstrated almost daily.
” How can the country make headway with our problems in a healthy way if you believe that you can’t even talk to a large swath of the population?”
You are being disingenuous in many ways. How can one talk if one of the discussants doesn’t have a fixed identity (alias or not), and intermittently claims the other anonymous said that.
“Rodríguez trashed a pro-life display while screaming”
“Rodríguez screamed”
She wasn’t screaming. It was inappropriate and childish for her to push the items off the table, and it’s inappropriate for Turley to lie and claim that she was screaming. We’re all better off when people choose to discuss it truthfully.
Anonymous argues that a subjective level being called “screaming” is bad and therefore that is the point when a PROFESSOR yells at students, destroys their POLITICAL materials and is, in my opinion, OBJECTIVELY unhinged.
She didn’t yell. She also didn’t “destroy” anything. She flipped something on top of the table and pushed some cards off the table, without destroying any of it. Again: we’re all better off discussing it truthfully. Why is that hard for you?
Here is an idea, stop defending a PROFESSOR knocking STIDENTS POLITICAL material off of a POLITICAL display. Why is that hard for you? Why the need to defend a fascist little PROFESSOR yelling, yes, she yelled, at kids trying their hand at being political and having their own political ideas?
Sorry “Anonymous”, it is you that that is the problem, people that defend people in alterity shutting down the free speech of those without authority. Try thinking about why you have this knee-jerk reaction and need to defend what is clearly indefensible.
“stop defending [er]”
I didn’t defend her. I literally said “It was inappropriate and childish for her to push the items off the table,” and elsewhere “I object to Rodríguez’s pushing the items off the table. She is free to say what she wants (freedom of speech cuts both ways), but I think professors should model support for freedom of speech, to help students learn to support it as well.”
Why is it so hard for you to accept that I’m BOTH criticizing her and ALSO criticizing people who can’t discuss it truthfully?
“she yelled”
She didn’t. Diogenes agrees that she wasn’t screaming.
“Try thinking about why you have this knee-jerk reaction”
What “knee-jerk reaction”? Calling for people to discuss it truthfully is “knee-jerk”?!? Try thinking about your own knee-jerk reaction where you refuse to discuss both her actions and my response truthfully. Don’t lie about her (falsely claiming that “she yelled” and “destroys” things) and also don’t lie about me (falsely claiming that I’m defending her). I’m defending truthful discussion. I’m defending the freedom of speech of the anti-abortion group even though I don’t agree with them. Jeez.
“stop defending [her]”
I didn’t defend her. I literally said “It was inappropriate and childish for her to push the items off the table,” and “I object to Rodríguez’s pushing the items off the table. She is free to say what she wants (freedom of speech cuts both ways), but I think professors should model support for freedom of speech, to help students learn to support it as well.”
“yes, she yelled”
No, she didn’t.
“it is you that that is the problem, people that defend people in alterity shutting down the free speech of those without authority.”
Again, I didn’t defend her. I think her response was childish and inappropriate. I defend the speech rights of the anti-abortion group, even though I disagree with them.
“Try thinking about why you have this knee-jerk reaction”
What knee-jerk reaction? Calling for people to discuss it truthfully?
Try thinking about your own knee-jerk reaction where you lie about her (“she yelled” and “destroys … materials”) and about me (your false claim that I’ve defended her). Choose to be truthful even when you disagree with someone’s actions or statements.
Ha, if we put together which anonymous you are everyone would know that you don’t believe what you are writing.
“She wasn’t screaming.”
She raised her voice, was emotional and through out colorful unacceptable words. The dictionary will disagree with your assessment.
She shouldn’t be a professor and one could argue she doesn’t deserve to be on a college campus.
James does bring up an important point. There is a spectrum of autism that may apply but there is also known rage reactions that permeate many mental health afflictions. The more I see these types of events in the news and elsewhere, the more I think of mental health disease as the cause. It is often so unreasoning and rage-like and beyond that it often defies sanity to actually support it in any fashion. Of course other possibilities are that they are also addled by significant amounts of legal drug use, which definitely alters your ability to interact in the real world.
But also consider this, where else would a person like this work but in a university or journalism. They were not smart enough to get into a professional school or a real occupation, no sane employer is going to hire some one like this who has these types of outbursts. (I suspect she has had these before in her classes). The problem is they have been soiling the ground of universities since the late 1950’s to the present and their contagion has reached even to those that should know better, since the universities (as pointed out above) have been remiss in not spreading real diversity of thought on their campuses. These people assume disproportionate power because they never get challenged. That has to change and boards need to do their job.
Once again, if you are ” triggered” by a ” microaggression” and need a “safe space” , grow the F**k up Pu**y.
You sure as heck don’t belong in college. Maybe go back to kindergarten.
American values are not their values. This includes free speech and objectivity in journalism. Those traditional values have been rejected in our new era, in which cultural marxists value only winning the war. They see themselves at war (as Estovir’s quotation below demonstrates), and all’s fair in war. I don’t think it’s useful to continue to express shock that they’re fundamentally un-American. They would wear such a label with pride because they hate American values. They hate America as it currently exists, and they want to burn it all down so they can rebuild it in their image.
Oldmanfromkansas,
Here is a read you might find interesting from Paul Craig Roberts: The United States Has Been Destroyed by Its Ruling Elites
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2023/05/18/the-united-states-has-been-destroyed-by-its-ruling-elites/
Upstate – thanks, I did (find it interesting). How do you suggest I prepare myself and my family for this:
Sooner or later the US dollar’s exchange value will fall, setting off high inflation in the US that is outside the control of the central bank. American living standards will fall, and the US will begin to look like India in 1900. The hatred of white people that Democrats have taught to blacks and immigrant-invaders will result in internal war. The only question is whether white Americans will have been so indoctrinated with their guilt that they are unable to defend themselves.
Oldmanfromkansas,
Oh, boy, that is a doozy.
Lets see . . . have land of size that can grow small crops, raise small, medium or even large livestock with a fresh water source. Out in a rural area.
Have little to no debt if possible. The only debt we have is the mortgage, and we are cashing in part of the 401k to pay it off in June.
If you have to buy something, pay for quality. From appliances, to tools, to clothing.
Firearms and either get the training for basic marksmanship or practice.
Basically you want to insulate yourself and family as much as possible that if and when high inflation (much higher than what we are experiencing today) you feel a lot less of the pain then you would if you not of prepared.
Upstate – thanks, that is helpful.
I’m a Democrat. I’m also white. Democrats aren’t teaching a hatred of whites.
“Anonymous” just because you are white does not give you the right to deny the truth regarding what Biden and the Democrats are doing with race relations. We just had the “president’ go to a black college and talk about the evils of some amorphous “white supremacy” movement. This is not divisive? We have a black mental case going berserk on a train and a white guy defending the other passengers and Al Sharpton giving the evil eulogy. We have AOC calling it a murder. We have Biden giving the Red Menace speech calling Republicans, see white people, evil.
Do you deny that there are white supremacists in the US? Some of them are dangerous: https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/fbi-dhs-domestic-terrorism-strategic-report-2022.pdf/view
Condemning white supremacist domestic terrorism should not be divisive, any more than condemning domestic terrorism of any other kind. And Biden has not called white people in general or Republicans evil.
Daniel Penny killed Jordan Neely. He’s been charged with second degree manslaughter, and his guilt or innocence will be determined by a jury.
They are such a small percentage, right up there with flat earthers and moon landing deniers, that they aren’t a large threat to anyone.
CurrentSitGuy,
I agree.
But the Biden admin, some Democrats would have us believe if you did not vote for him/them, then you are a white supremacist. According to them, anyone who is MAGA is a radical, racist and white supremacist.
They’ve killed people. We should be concerned about anyone who engages in domestic terrorism.
More people are killed every weekend in Chicago than by white supremacists in the last several decades. It’s a statistical anamoly at best.
That isn’t true. Hundreds of people have been killed by white supremacists, some in mass murders (e.g., in the Buffalo grocery store, the El Paso Walmart, the Tree of Life Synagogue) and others not, and that’s more than are killed every weekend in Chicago. Second, some domestic terrorism is prevented by law enforcement investigations. It’s just as important to prevent white supremacist domestic terrorism as it is to prevent left-wing domestic terrorism and international terrorism.
Again: Condemning white supremacist domestic terrorism should not be divisive, any more than condemning terrorism of any other kind.
“Do you deny that there are white supremacists in the US?”
Today because of Obama and people like you, there are probably more black supremacists than white ones, although blacks are only about 13% of the population. How would one count who is or who is not a black supremacist?
Should we count the number of Hispanics killed by blacks? That would make the numbers rise. Conversely, we can count the number of Hispanics that kill blacks. Do we call either of these groups supremacists? What makes them different from white supremacists? All these groups spew have and violence towards others of another race.
My black friends think people that think like you need to be put away for inciting violence and causing our society to fracture.
You don’t see why they think that, do you? Race mongers always cause violence.
“Daniel Penny killed Jordan Neely. He’s been charged with second degree manslaughter, and his guilt or innocence will be determined by a jury.”
Yet the people on the train afraid for their lives, think Penny is a hero. Why did the DA charge before sending this case before a Grand Jury? Was the DA afraid that too many on the Grand Jury ride the subway and are scared for their lives?
Why are you so blase that a hero is charged immediately rather than have the case sent before a Grand Jury risking no indictment? You are a race monger.
HullBobby,
As I have stated before, I am brown.
I consider DIE, BLM, SJW, and to the degree the Democrat party supports them, they are all creating a more intolerant and divisive environment to the point it is beginning to escalate to violence.
The Democrat party would hate my whole family. Brown people, who work hard, have a good work ethic, save our money, stay out of debt and do not need, or want a government hand out. And we are successful.
I’m a Democrat. I don’t hate you.
The dims are certainly pushing divisiveness.
Unreal Students meet Surreal War
“… They see themselves at war (as Estovir’s quotation below demonstrates), and all’s fair in war. …”
Good, then They’re prepared for the Real-Thing – WAR.
Lock-N-Load Lets get this Won Ton Express Rolling!
“… They see themselves at war ” What a Glorious sight to behold!
Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse-Five
62.182.86.140/main/503000/b238dc565a4e2bb3fa5fba8d9e522c5a/Kurt%20Vonnegut%20-%20Slaughterhouse-Five.pdf
Let’s hope it part of Their required curriculum.
This was posted as a response to you but became decoupled:
https://jonathanturley.org/2023/05/21/youre-triggering-my-students-hunter-college-professor-trashes-pro-life-display/#comment-2289964
Did it with purpose (My apologies if you felt it was out of line) – These Students (Brats) and Staff (Elitist) are ‘decoupled’ from the reality of what is currently surrounding Us. They are focused on the little black-glass held in their hands and not the World around them.
American Life is a Balance of survival, The two of You say it yourself in this thread:
… The only debt we have is the mortgage, and we are cashing in part of the 401k to pay it off in June.
… The US dollar’s exchange value will fall, setting off high inflation in the US that is outside the control of the central bank. American living standards will fall,
You know Boys You and I know what to be concerned of. However there is a outstanding number of Younger & New Americans that just don’t have a Clue.
Yesterday I had a profound experience. A 21 yr. old Nicaraguan Immigrant, Whom from all observations is a clean-cut, well adjusted, Kid. This Individual is of a quality better than that of U.S. Kids his age. These Kids have been brought here (Dumped) but are empty vessels. They don’t speak the Language, They don’t know the Process of what to do next, They are economically indigent (Broke), and they are not getting the Direction they need to finish their processing to Citizenship.
Now, He was duly processed by the Boarder Patrol and Department of Homeland Security and released into the Wilds of America. But has no idea that a Work Permit (Asylum Green Card – U.S. immigration law requires refugees to apply for lawful permanent resident (LPR)) of which is need for a Social Security Card, and the later (S.S.Card) requires a 1 year continuous stay in the U.S. before applying for the SS Card. The Cost of processing this (Filing Fees) if done alone by themselves is $1000 USD. They also need to register for Selective Service (The Draft), get the they Day-to-Day items needed to function. Like a Drivers License, Bank Account, and more.
SO they can’t Lawfully take a Job nor can an Employer legally pay them until They jump these hurdles.
And to boot, the Government want’s to get rid of Cash – Go figure why Crime is up.
Anyway Guys, We have many Local things to address at the Political Levels because Washington (and the Democrat’s Political ambitions) have really messed this up. Maybe a War is the way to Clean it Up.
It’s going to take something Monumental.
F.Y.I.: Implementation of a Parole Process for Nicaraguans
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/01/09/2023-00254/implementation-of-a-parole-process-for-nicaraguans
Bring back the Draft Lottery.
It is time to give these Young Citizens an Overseas Job.
Ukraine, Taiwan, destinations known & unknown.
They will have to earn the Freedom They so judiciously spend.
Where else do you think the Democrats are going with Ukraine [ret.?]
The writing to clearly on the wall and the War Drums are getting loader Day by Day.
Wallstreet has no End-Game, except One. Collapse the House of Cards and rewrite the Ledger.
Have a War, Start Over and continue the Fraud, Isn’t this the Meta cycle of Capitalism?
It’s really a No-Brainer. Oh yes, I God We Trust, certainly not the Idiots in Washington D.C.
Get Real – Nothing Last Forever.
The way I see it is the Republicans must plan for:
The 2024 Election deceptions. Face It – It’s here to stay. 2024 is going to be just as nasty as the past.
The Ukrainian War, Syrian War, Balkan War, Taiwanese War, … The Cooking Pot of Globalization is boiling-over and the Democrats have the Stove Burners on High.
The Mass Immigrant situation, They are here now, They need to be shown what to do to be Model Americans.
The Infrastructure, the Grid, Bridges, Small Towns, … It’s the ‘Empty Can’ that keeps getting kicked down the Road.
Habitat restoration, We will have a Garbage Dump Coast-to-Coast if it is not managed, and an Eco-system extinction.
The United States is becoming a 3rd. World Nation because We invited it here. We need a Peace Corp for America now.
So many more Local things need to be addressed – right now.
We already have a “Peace Corps for America” — both AmeriCorps and Vista.
All Right! Then lets get these Refugee Immigrants into the program – They can build the America and be proud of it.
God save the K̶i̶n̶g̶ 𝟒𝟎𝟏𝐊
Tulsi Gabbard 🌺
@TulsiGabbard – https://twitter.com/i/status/1660242661767516163
The warmongers are trying to drag us into WW3, which can only end in one way: nuclear annihilation and the suffering and death of all our loved ones. Zelensky, Biden, NATO, congressional and media neocons are insane. And we are insane if we passively allow them to lead us into this holocaust like sheep to the slaughter. We find hope in the fact that the vast majority of Americans are sane, but sanity is not enough. We also need courage. The courage to stand up to the powerful warmongers, and in unison declare: “No! we will not allow you to destroy our families, communities, environment, country, and world!”
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1660241580689874945/pu/vid/720×720/bI4dlNYYEUWyE-lE.mp4?tag=12
Meanwhile, elsewhere in academic clown world (or should I say academic unconstitutional world), the University of Minnesota has a paid summer research internship program that is closed to white students.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/university-minnesota-faces-backlash-over-summer-research-program-restricted-non-white-applicants
She is a Communist, given her website offers a reading from Cuba’s Communist Dictatorship circa 1967.
Send her to Cuba. She can tear down all of the public displays in Cuba she believes are anti-human rights. LOL. That would be glorious
LIBRARY: A collection of interesting reads, and things to consider.
Speech at the 1967 third world liberation conference, Havana – Stokely Carmichael
December 21, 2022
“We greet you as comrades because it becomes increasingly clear to us each day that we share with you a common struggle; we have a common enemy. Our enemy is white Western imperialist society. Our struggle is to overthrow this system which feeds itself and expands itself through the economic and cultural exploitation of nonwhite, non-Western peoples-the THIRD WORLD
https://www.shellynerodriguez.com/library
Who pays for the students to go to this University? If the parents don’t care who is teaching their children this trash them why should I care…….I don’t. Cut the University it’s funding and that will get their attention.
She actually said it is violent or violence???? This lady should be fired not for what she says but for her obvious insanity. How can you have such a lose cannon teaching young people? Imagine if a conservative trashed a liberal sided display. Imagine if conservative professor screamed at pro-choice or pro-trans protesters. That professor would be fired that day and would be unable to get another position at 90% of our schools. This is life in Doublestandardstan.
I now wait anxiously for Svelaz to comment on how this professor is right (insane) 200 times and then to have a dialogue with “Anonymous” and Gigi about how fascist conservatives are. My advice is to stop reading Svelaz, I have done so and I have saved an hour a day, I cut my blood pressure pills in half, I drink less and I smile more. Oh, my IQ has also gone up 20 points.
HullBobby,
Very funny!
I have to agree with the good professor when he used the word, “unhinged.”
That seems to be a common thread with leftists.
Those usual suspects, as well as Dennis, were all surprisingly silent yesterday on the birds story. Perhaps they got fired?
they are allotted only so much crystal meth to fuel their cray cray behaviors
Not only did I comment on it, you and I exchanged comments on it. And I’m not paid to comment.
Anon – I realized that after I clicked “post comment.” You were the exception.
Come on man (in the words of a known idiot), you can’t really believe some of the stuff you post?
She is triggered because she uses abortion for birth control.
The shared governance model of universities leads to faculty selecting new faculty. As a result, you have an echo chamber of ideas. Perhaps universities should rethink the power allocated to faculty and reduce its influence on hiring deans and faculty. Then, the board of trustees by appointing commonsense, non-woke president and provost can work on establishing an ideologically diverse faculty and effective second tier academic leadership; and stop the madness.
As a professor Rodriguez should be an example of respectful discourse with those with whom she disagrees. That is besides her stated desire to stifle free speech and losing it to the point of physicality. Or she could have even ignored the students and information on the table entirely.
I have to wonder how Rodriguez achieved her position at the college.
If Professor Turley writes an important article in the desert, and there is no Democrat there to read it, does it matter? Our leadership in all institutions important to the preservation of the Republic have flown the coop. The courts and the comedians are our only hope in holding the line, but even that, at times, seems hopeless.
I am a Dem and I support a woman choosing to have an abortion. I also strongly support free speech, and I like to read the opinion of people who think differently than me. I’ve been reading Jonathan Turley for a long time. Turley is one of the great thinkers of our time.
I applaud your spirit, Somsai. I read The Hill. I don’t always like what I read because it leans left, but I feel I have a moral obligation to hear them out. Professor Turley also provides opinions for The Hill, which our surliest trolls often forget.
I can stomach editorializing, but I draw the line at propaganda, right or left. If even they don’t believe what they’re writing, I won’t read it.
Somsai and Diogenes,
Well said.
I used to listen to NPR all the time. It was always on the radio in the kitchen.
Then 2016 happened and they went all advocacy journalism to the point it was nauseating.
Recently I listened to Morning Report while in the truck the day after the Durham Report was released. Not a single mention. But there was a report about how hard it was for migrants to get a credit card. It was over 5 minutes long.
Somsai, Diogenes, UpstateFarmer: Thank you for this refreshing breath of sanity.
Thersites,
Welcome!
Just trying to be helpful where we can.
To be clear, it was a segment on legal immigrants who come from countries where credit cards aren’t used and the difficulty of getting a credit card when you have no credit history.
“report about how hard it was for migrants to get a credit card. It was over 5 minutes long.”
Upstate, I gave up on NPR at least a decade or two ago because of gross stupidity that has only gotten worse. For decades credit card applications required:
Your full legal name
Your SSN and/or ITIN
Your street address
Your gross annual income
Your employment status
Your housing costs
Nothing above is difficult to provide for the average person, yet for decades NPR looked at the outliers to prove America was bad and declined to observe what was good. If they looked at that list of common things, they wouldn’t have created the news segment.
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Professor Turley: “President Jennifer J. Raab is now faced with an adjunct professor who trashed a display, verbally assaulted students, and declared that opposing views should not be tolerated on campus.”
I’m not a lawyer but looks to me like a criminal matter, too: disorderly conduct, menacing, and destruction of property.
I think Professor Rodríguez suffers from borderline personality disorder. The judge should order a psychiatric exam.
@Diogenes
It’s also a sign of Autistic Spectrum Disorder. I had a friend prone to such ludicrous rage and thought they might be borderline personality or bipolar; turns out they were ASD. Given the increase of recent years of folks on the spectrum, the language used (‘triggering’) and the obsessive thinking and behavior, I strongly suspect at the least what we used to call Asperger’s (high functioning autism). To most, autism is anything but a gift, and unless one is actively working to deal with its less desirable qualities, that person likely does not belong in any position of authority. I personally think ASD afflicts many of the hyper-woke. Just my opinion.
Confirmed. Studies already show “progressive” young people admit to being diagnosed with mental illness far more than the rest of us. I think unstable people tend to glom onto the latest hysteria, whether it’s old Salem or modern wokeness.
I consider wokeness to be a mental illness.
The few times I read some of our leftists friends comments, one would have to be mentally ill making some of their absurd comments and twisted logic.
Note I am NOT saying Democrats in general, like Bill Maher, Elon Musk or the good professor. It is the woke leftists that have taken over the Democrat party.
As Bill Maher said, “I did not leave the party, the party left me.”
@upstate
Agreed. Still, the screaming and inability to stop, the incessant repetition of phrases during episodes, the lack of empathy or self-awareness during overwhelm – that is all classic ASD meltdown stuff.
My friend and I are close, and things improved greatly once it was determined what was amiss and it had begun being addressed. It’s a tough one. I reckon this is true for other disorders as well. Woke psychology/pharmaceutical strangleholds certainly do not help.
OTOH, I have an Aspergers kid, and he is less susceptible to leftist propaganda than my most of my other kids. He’s straightforward in his understanding that belief in God makes the most sense, and the leftists are just plain nuts. He has a more finely-tuned BS detector than most of my other kids. He’s smart, but not stupid-smart.
@oldman
Well, it’s a spectrum. For some it is quite mild by comparison (perhaps manifesting as obsessive thinking/anxiety), for others it’s full on, ‘Possessed by Beelzebub – *duck!*’. Kudos to you for being a conscious parent. Far too few are these days.