“Slitting the Master’s Throat”: Fired Machete-Wielding Professor Leads Protesters in Chilling Chant

We previously discussed Shellyne Rodríguez , the machete-wielding former Hunter College professor. Rodríguez is back with a large following shown in a video with protesters chanting with her about “slitting the throats of the masters.”We previously discussed a videotape of Rodríguez trashing a pro-life student display in New York. Before attacking the table, she told the students, “You’re not educating s–t […] This is f–king propaganda. What are you going to do, like, anti-trans next? This is bulls–t. This is violent. You’re triggering my students.”

The videotape revealed one other thing. At Hunter College, and at other colleges, it seems that trashing a pro-life student display and abusing pro-life students is not considered a firing offense. Hunter College refused to fire Rodríguez.

The PSC Graduate Center, the labor organization of graduate and professional schools at the City University of New York, supported that decision and said Rodríguez was “justified” in trashing the display, which the organization described as “dangerously false propaganda” and “disinformation.”

Rodríguez later put a machete to the neck of a reporter, threatened to chop him up and then chased a news crew down a street with the machete in hand. Somewhere between the machete to the neck and chasing the reporters down the street, Hunter College finally decided that Rodríguez had to go.

Rodríguez denounced the school for having “capitulated” to “racists, white nationalists, and misogynists.” She explained that her firing was just a continuation of “attacks on women, trans people, black people, Latinx people, migrants, and beyond.”

The Cooper Union, however, refused to sever ties with Rodríguez, 47, and decided that she should continue to teach her students. Later it too fired Rodriguez after continued radical conduct. However, according to the New York Post, Rodriguez attributed her firing to her anti-Israeli comments. She declared:

“Cooper Union has fired me because of a social media post I made about ‘Zionists’… effective immediately. This is fascism. Ya’ll are learning about it in real time. Stay strong, [stay] brave, stay defiant, don’t bite your tongue, and drink plenty of water! Pa-lante!”

Before watching this video, it is important to keep in mind that the faculty members and administrators previously wanted Rodríguez as a colleague.

In a video on X shared by journalist Andy Ngo, Rodríguez leads a group of pro-Palestinian protesters in chanting “Our ancestors … dreamed of us slitting the master’s throat.” The scene shows a clearly unhinged Rodríguez who is not just supported by these protesters but clearly thrilling them with her rage rhetoric.

I discuss Rodríguez in my book The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage” as an example of the radical chic in higher education.

Rodríguez leads the pro-Palestinian protesters in anti-police chants:

“Our ancestors are horrified to see black people, Latinx people, indigenous people, children of migrants, and Muslims joining the slave patrol NYPD and [inaudible] plantation overseers in the jails and prisons.”

For a person who chased reporters with a machete, it is a curious choice for a speaker against violence. However, Rodríguez is clearly revered by the crowd.

The fact that she pleaded guilty to harassment and menacing charges clearly did not reduce her popularity. To the contrary, for some, it may have increased it.

This was the person that two colleges wanted on their faculties and resisted efforts to fire her, even after trashing a table in an insane diatribe against pro-life advocates. She is the person that the PSC Graduate Center declared was “justified” in her violence against those peaceful advocates.

She is the very face of an age of rage.

Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. He is the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage” (Simon & Schuster).

239 thoughts on ““Slitting the Master’s Throat”: Fired Machete-Wielding Professor Leads Protesters in Chilling Chant”

  1. Thanks for the post. Your child could be and probably is in a college with disturbed people and throat slitting rhetoric.

    1. * everyone Google Shellyne Rodriquez. She’s a “fine artist” in mixed media and widely courted by the upper crust Yale and distinguished museums for shows.

      The artworks are tortured and many use cigarette butts as flowers etc. The images are 3rd world , Bronx, fare. They are quite disturbed.

      Nothing is known of her childhood because she doesn’t talk about it.

      Very disturbing and no doubt a product of a disturbed life.

      1. * She’s angry or enraged that she was born into a world of nothing and no one wanted her. She learned to hate when she watched and envied others until she became insane.

        Adieu

          1. * Many commentary appear to be 11 years old? 15 maybe?

            This world of yours is a horrible waste of life itself. The democrats, all media including right wing is negative, hateful and disgusting fare. If you hate abortion they’ll give you more.

            Turley is right. She is the face of rage and it’s who and what you’ve become. She’s exercising her hideous free speech.

            Free speech is a condition and when a population exercises it freely you find this rage and another population would exercise free speech and you’d find peace and beauty.

            It’s what you’ve become. Shutting it all down because it causes illness. AI has been used for ill.

            Hideous

  2. Know The Enemy – Do Not Succumb

    “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

    – Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    _____________________________

    Shellyne Rodríguez is a direct and mortal enemy of the American Thesis of Freedom and Self-Reliance, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, Actual Americans, and America.

    Shellyne Rodríguez has committed treason “in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort” and is worthy of prosecution, deportation, exile, and more grave and solemn penalties.

  3. This radical Democrat, Shellyne Rodríguez is one of the Real Threats to Democracy.
    Let’s watch what Kamala, Walz, Chuck U Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Dick Cheney (aka Eric Endicott), Liz Cheney, CNN, ABC, CBS, PBS and the View have to say about their little soldier.

  4. “WE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES, IN ORDER TO FORM A MORE PERFECT UNION,…SECURE THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY TO FOREIGN ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS, PAST AND PRESENT.”

    NOT EVEN CLOSE.

    “WE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES, IN ORDER TO FORM A MORE PERFECT UNION,…SECURE THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY TO OURSELVES AND OUR POSTERITY.”

  5. The people in question have legitimized a clear psycho. This would have been the equivalent of Manson being endorsed by the mainstream back then, and no one seems to think there is a problem with this. We really need to accept that for many reasons, our university system is dead. Stone cold dead. Where we go from here remains to be seen, but stop kidding yourselves. To at least a degree (no pun intended, but apropos), this is what you are paying for if you send your kids to modern universities, and they WILL be exposed to some extent no matter where they go, it’s out of your hands. Decide how you really feel about that, because it is just the norm now. Same goes for donating and delusional alumni. Get out of the past, for Pete’s sake, because it is beyond dead. If you are still in denial you are very much a part of the problem.

  6. I’m voting for Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein in 2024. She will usher in the second coming of the king of kings and lord of lords.

  7. Naturalization Acts of 1790, 1795, 1798, and 1802 (four iterations for clarity)

    United States Congress, “An act to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization,” March 26, 1790

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That any Alien being a free white person,…and making proof to the satisfaction of such Court that he is a person of good character,…

    1. There has been 500 years of racial-ethnic mixing in North America. Given that, how can you possibly define a “white person” in a legally-unambiguous manner? George, would you be willing to accept a meritocracy where race doesn’t matter?

      1. It’s a matter of enforcing existing laws.

        The immigration law of the Founders was in full force and effect in 1863.

        Secession is not and was not prohibited.

        Lincoln resorted to illegal dictatorship and unconstitutional kinetic force as he failed to support the Constitution and constitutional laws.

        What would you say if a constitutional and conservative president did that?

        “Asylum” is not legitimate for 20 million illegal aliens; “asylum” is a massive jurisprudential fraud.

        The Supreme Court enforced the constitution on Roe retroactively by 50 years.

        The 21st Amendment repealed the 18th which was a scam.

      2. Why don’t you ask the American Founders what their vision for America was?

        You can read it.

        Why don’t you ask Professor Turley to remove his explicit endorsement and the image of the Founders at the top of this blog?

      3. I accept the Constitution and the laws it engendered.

        I accept the nation the American Founders built according to their laws.

        The America of its Founders is a restricted-vote republic of meritocracy.

        The “democracy” of the communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs, AINOs) is a wholly unconstitutional “dictatorship of the proletariat” ruled by their “intelligentsia,” and must be struck down by the Supreme Court just as corrupt Roe v. Wade was struck down in order to implement the “manifesto tenor” of the Constitution.

        Lincoln was an egregious criminal of high office and his acts must be rescinded as was Roe.

  8. Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858

    “I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races–that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of N—–s, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.”

    – Abraham Lincoln

  9. Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia…

    You know as Napolean Duarte’ lost control of his government in El Salvador, right wing death squads started paying visits to people just like this POS. I think we are dangerously close to that happening here.

  10. @ 1:18

    “We don’t know a lot about Barack Obama [Kamala Harris].”

    – Tom Brokawhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vod4ls0Q4cs

  11. With things imploding so hard for Mark Robinson in NC (in a race he was going to lose anyway) do you think he’s sucking off a trans friend in order to comfort himself???

  12. Carville was speculating that the reason trump smells like shite is because he can’t reach his arse to wipe it. What’s the over/under on this dilemma?

    1. Carville has been bitter since Hunter Biden stopped allowing him to have sloppy seconds with his Russian whores. Carville never saw a Democrat’s @sshole that he wouldn’t eagerly clean with his tongue.

  13. Related topic:

    Penn Suspends Law Professor Amy Wax Over Claims of Racist, Offensive Comments
    The University of Pennsylvania is suspending Amy Wax, a tenured law professor accused of making racist, sexist and antigay comments, in a case that has tested the limit of academic freedoms and freedom of speech
    – WSJ

    I am guessing Professor Turley will comment on the suspension of tenured Law Professor Amy Wax . Perhaps he knows Professor Amy Wax, MD, JD, personally.
    This from former Penn President Liz Magill, who defend anti-semitism before Congress arguing it was a “matter of context” and refused to resign.

    How it started. Her op-ed shared with a San Diego professor, is an interesting read, most of which is on point, none of which I find hateful, harmful or offensive as a Latino. I essentially argued their op-ed points yesterday with my referencing Saint Augustine and the Catholic SCOTUS Justices.

    Paying the price for breakdown of the country’s bourgeois culture
    by Amy Wax and Larry Alexander
    Published Aug. 9, 2017, 4:01 p.m. ET
    https://www.inquirer.com/philly/opinion/commentary/paying-the-price-for-breakdown-of-the-countrys-bourgeois-culture-20170809.html

    Dr Amy Wax responded:

    1. Estovir,
      That was a very good read.
      As a non-white person myself, I did not find it offensive at all. Those attributes, that of
      “Get married before you have children and strive to stay married for their sake. Get the education you need for gainful employment, work hard, and avoid idleness. Go the extra mile for your employer or client. Be a patriot, ready to serve the country. Be neighborly, civic-minded, and charitable. Avoid coarse language in public. Be respectful of authority. Eschew substance abuse and crime.”
      are tenets that my grandparents instilled on my parents, and my parents on me. They were not middle class by any stretch of imagination. For that matter, when first starting out, my parents would of classified as the lower 20% by IRS standards at the time. Through the bourgeois culture, they have achieved a comfortable middle class status. As have I. As have my own children. Each generation achieving that status younger and younger in their lives than the previous one. My youngest, at twenty-six, has reached middle class status.
      Of course the leftist progressives would find it offensive, as it is an direct assault on their failing narrative that we all see. Their narrative only leads to failure. To a lower life standard. To depression. To addiction. To crime. That is why we see them so enraged when someone speaks the truth.

    2. Estovir,
      Her response was brilliant! Slow and stupid George, Dennis, Gigig, would all lose their minds if they were to watch her response.
      Reject their position.
      Reject their anti-role models.
      Ruin their summer.

      1. UpstateFarmer, her Youtube video presentation was phenomenal. I know nothing about her but to earn an MD degree followed immediately by a JD degree is quite a feat. Her video shows a polished speaker, an intelligent debater, and a person with a soul who loves America. I hope she files a lawsuit against Penn. I would be surprised if she did not

    3. Her response was even better.
      Slow and stupid George, Dennis, Gigi’s heads would explode if they watched that.
      Reject their anti-role models.
      Ruin their summer.
      Reject their narrative.
      How to stop the leftists progressive narrative.
      She nailed it.

  14. Trump’s bailing on his stock. Short covers leading to a bounce today. When it levels off, short it every tick down until we elect President Harris. Magat money on the table. Let’s take it.

  15. America is devolving into a third world country, with bad infrastructure, bad social standards, bad (and often useless) education, discarding meritocracy, and high levels of violence, in the majority of big cities.

  16. She is a veritable test of our support for Freedom of Speech. Stay firm. Stay frosty. It will protect your own 1st Amendment Rights if you protect hers.

    1. Threatening to kill people is not protected speech. Putting a machete against someone’s neck is not protected speech. Destroying property is not protected speech.

      1. She is not threatening to kill anyone.

        Putting a machete against someone’s neck, and destroying property are not speech, and she has already been judged for those. That does not affect her freedom to say the things she’s reported in this article as saying.

  17. When civility, common sense, and meritocracy are your masters, you can understand why low emotional and intellectual quotient people (aka the democrat base) will rage against the machine. Tell me how a purge would be a bad thing.

    Machete, lolol, what a clown.

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