🚨 UC Riverside Professor Dylan Rodríguez: “F*cking terrorizes civilization. I want to be that kind of terrorist.”
In a recent appearance on Millennials Are Killing Capitalism, Rodríguez — a UC Riverside professor, past president of the American Studies Association, and a leading voice in Ethnic and Black Studies — openly glorified terrorism and insurrection. His teachings don’t stay in the classroom. One of the students he hailed as a “genius” is now serving time for firebombing vehicles at UC Berkeley.
Rodríguez scoffs at nonviolence:
“This pacifism shit will get people killed.”
He praises direct sabotage of federal property:
“Shout out to folks throughout Southern California who are actively disabling ICE vehicles when they find them in the f*cking hotel parking lots.”
And he ties his vision to global militancy:
“Where has Palestinian liberation militancy gone? It’s only upscale. It’s only increased, it’s only globalized, it’s only spread.”
His rhetoric matches his own biography, where he insists:
“Most importantly, Dylan believes in the right — in fact, the obligation — of occupied, colonized, and incarcerated peoples to fight for their liberation… and the parallel responsibility of those who profess solidarity to take all necessary measures to protect, defend, and advance liberation struggle, whatever forms it may take.”
In a recent appearance on Millennials Are Killing Capitalism, Rodríguez — a UC Riverside professor, past president of the American Studies Association, and a leading voice in Ethnic and Black Studies — openly glorified terrorism and insurrection. His teachings don’t stay in the classroom. One of the students he hailed as a “genius” is now serving time for firebombing vehicles at UC Berkeley.
Rodríguez scoffs at nonviolence:
“This pacifism shit will get people killed.”
He praises direct sabotage of federal property:
“Shout out to folks throughout Southern California who are actively disabling ICE vehicles when they find them in the f*cking hotel parking lots.”
And he ties his vision to global militancy:
“Where has Palestinian liberation militancy gone? It’s only upscale. It’s only increased, it’s only globalized, it’s only spread.”
His rhetoric matches his own biography, where he insists:
“Most importantly, Dylan believes in the right — in fact, the obligation — of occupied, colonized, and incarcerated peoples to fight for their liberation… and the parallel responsibility of those who profess solidarity to take all necessary measures to protect, defend, and advance liberation struggle, whatever forms it may take.”
One of the students he celebrated as a “singular intellectual, just singular” is now serving time for federal arson and firebombing attacks.
Casey Robert Goonan, 34, of Oakland and Pleasant Hill, pleaded guilty to federal arson charges for a series of firebombings at the Oakland federal building and UC Berkeley in June 2024.
According to the plea deal, Goonan:
Tried to smash windows at the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building to throw lit Molotov cocktails inside. When stopped by security, he lit the devices in a planter outside instead.
Days earlier, placed a bag containing six Molotov cocktails under the fuel tank of a marked UC Police Department patrol car at UC Berkeley, lit the bag on fire, and fled. The patrol car caught fire and was destroyed.
This is the same Casey that Rodríguez has mentored for nearly 20 years, put into graduate-level courses as an undergrad, and later guided through a Northwestern PhD — describing him as more than a student, but one of his “most precious colleagues.”
Casey Robert Goonan, 34, of Oakland and Pleasant Hill, pleaded guilty to federal arson charges for a series of firebombings at the Oakland federal building and UC Berkeley in June 2024.
According to the plea deal, Goonan:
Tried to smash windows at the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building to throw lit Molotov cocktails inside. When stopped by security, he lit the devices in a planter outside instead.
Days earlier, placed a bag containing six Molotov cocktails under the fuel tank of a marked UC Police Department patrol car at UC Berkeley, lit the bag on fire, and fled. The patrol car caught fire and was destroyed.
This is the same Casey that Rodríguez has mentored for nearly 20 years, put into graduate-level courses as an undergrad, and later guided through a Northwestern PhD — describing him as more than a student, but one of his “most precious colleagues.”
Yes — this is his official UC Riverside biography. It’s astonishing to see how openly it doubles down on the same themes from his talks:
“Liberationist, anticolonial, abolitionist confrontations with the antiblack, colonial, and white supremacist violences that permeate the ongoing Civilization project.”
“Obligation… of occupied, colonized, and incarcerated peoples to fight for their liberation… and the parallel responsibility of those who profess solidarity to take all necessary measures to protect, defend, and advance liberation struggle, whatever forms it may take.”
That last line — “whatever forms it may take” — is basically a blank check to justify violence, sabotage, and terrorism. And this isn’t buried in an obscure paper — it’s posted right on UCR’s official site, under his Distinguished Professor title.
“Liberationist, anticolonial, abolitionist confrontations with the antiblack, colonial, and white supremacist violences that permeate the ongoing Civilization project.”
“Obligation… of occupied, colonized, and incarcerated peoples to fight for their liberation… and the parallel responsibility of those who profess solidarity to take all necessary measures to protect, defend, and advance liberation struggle, whatever forms it may take.”
That last line — “whatever forms it may take” — is basically a blank check to justify violence, sabotage, and terrorism. And this isn’t buried in an obscure paper — it’s posted right on UCR’s official site, under his Distinguished Professor title.
You probably remember the photos from this arson attack. So why are professors in our universities teaching and grooming the very people who go on to commit acts of insurrection
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