UC Riverside professor wants to be ‘terrorist,’ praises student who firebombed police car– www.thecollegefix.com
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- UC Riverside Professor Dylan Rodriguez praised former student Casey Goonan, a convicted arsonist, who firebombed government buildings and a police vehicle.
- On a recent podcast, Rodriguez said ‘you got to be a little crazy’ in order to face the ‘viciousness of white supremacy.’
- The public university professor teaches media and cultural studies, and helped to found the groups Cops Off Campus and Scholars for Social Justice.
A University of California, Riverside professor suggested on a recent podcast that a former pro-Palestinian student of his, a convicted arsonist, was a “genius” and praised protesters who disable U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicles.
Dylan Rodriguez also spoke about wanting to be a “terrorist” and praised a former Hunter College art instructor who was caught wrecking a pro-life student table and later chasing a journalist with a machete.
Rodriguez, a professor of media and cultural studies at UC Riverside, appeared on the Millennials are Killing Capitalism podcast in June to discuss “Lexical Warfare & Counterinsurgency.” In addition to teaching, he has helped to found the groups Cops Off Campus, Scholars for Social Justice, and Abolition Collective, according to his university bio.
