This is wonderful news! The world needs more jobless SJWs on the Internet to spur FB ad revenues! LOL
Indoctrination campaign wrote:
Now they have a "grad program" for aspiring K-12 teachers to immerse them in social justice.
https://heatst.com/culture-wars/evergreen-state-is-launching-a-masters-in-social-justice-program-with-guaranteed-jobs-for-graduates/
BTW, New York Times follow up article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/us/evergreen-state-protests.html
Evergreen had to use metal detectors for their recent grad ceremony.
Let's hope this school is defunded as soon as possible by Wa State.
As much as it might like to think of itself as an open and tolerant environment, Evergreen isn’t very accepting of voices that question the Evergreen orthodoxy. ... Professor Weinstein is not one of those who have opted for self-censorship
Bureaucracy at work.
A faculty member who sat on the Equity Council explicitly called him a racist in two different faculty meetings. When Professor Weinstein asked for an opportunity to defend himself, he was told that a faculty meeting was not the appropriate venue for such a defense.
When he asked what the appropriate venue was, he was told that no such venue existed because he was a racist. Neither the president nor the interim provost interceded to make it clear that leveling such charges against a fellow faculty member was unacceptable within the college community. When Professor Weinstein spoke privately with both of those administrators about these incidents, they both acknowledged the inappropriateness of the behavior but each said that it was the responsibility of the other to do something about it. Neither administrator took any public action in response.
And general kookiness.
George Bridges, Evergreen’s relatively new president, reformulated a college-wide Equity Council and provided them with a very wide charge. The group consisted of 28 members, six of whom were current faculty members and they set to work to outline a strategic equity plan. ... Building on the region’s Salish culture, the meeting concluded with attendees being asked to metaphorically climb into a canoe to embark on a journey to equity. The implication was that if people failed to board the canoe, they would be left behind. Indeed, the sentiment was expressed by some that if you were unwilling to get on board, perhaps Evergreen was not the place you should be working.
And bad math.
the Equity Strategic Plan was built on a statistical foundation. When the validity of that foundation was called into question, including by a robust analysis by an Evergreen alum currently in graduate school, the same faculty member who publicly called Professor Weinstein a racist began attacking scientists generally claiming that their reliance on data was dismissive of the concerns of students. President Bridges, upon being presented with the alum’s statistical critique, promised a response but none has been forthcoming.
Another innocent Jewish victim.
Very interesting update/read from former provost - apparently the situation was a lot worse than previously reported, if you can believe that!
The violent haters are now threatening to defund!
* Bret, both directly and through some of his associates, has chosen to take steps (going on Fox News) that can now be materially demonstrated to have invited threats of violence, wielded for political ends, against our students, our colleagues, and ourselves. As a result, many of us are terrified, which is clearly the intent of these threats. And in my own academic area of expertise, there is a very specific term for political violence, and for threats thereof, deployed to terrorize. This is serious. I call on Bret to apologize and to rectify the damage he has done, or to resign.
I concur with the alarm expressed below that one of our faculty has turned to the most right-wing, inflammatory propaganda sources on TV today, Tucker Carlson’s national segment on FOX News, to virtually invite right-wing forces to attack and defund Evergreen, and denigrate the Day of Absence/Day of Presence as “Campus Craziness.†As a scholar who has studied the far-right for three decades, and as a community organizer who has seen them in action, I can confirm how dangerous such a white backlash can become…. This has gone too far…. Until Friday, I merely disagreed with Bret. Today, I no longer consider him to be a colleague interested in the well-being of our community….
By appearing on Tucker Carlson’s Alt-Right TV program, you endangered our students…
Our community has been put at risk, and the inevitable threats are already being made. I call on Bret to apologize or resign, and invite other faculty members to also ask him to do so.
My five-year old has more sense and emotional intelligence than the entire faculty at Everslime State College.
Trust me these Evergreen students will make great special forces troops in the military, They would totally destroy Putin's SPETSNA.
Lawsuit time wrote:
http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9485
Now it all makes sense
If a recent ballot initiative proposed in the Washington state legislature passes, Evergreen State College will be renamed “Social Justice Warrior PC Indoctrination Compound.â€
The measure would change the college’s name and official seal to display a brown-shirted, black-masked anarchist trampling on the Constitution and Declaration of Independence.
What part of guaranteed jobs did you not understand?
Uncle Beemer wrote:
Lawsuit time wrote:http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9485Now it all makes sense
Chumps change. I make 3.8 mill in just 1 quarter, while still maintaining the training to run a 13 minute 5k.
As part of the $500,000 settlement, both Weinstein and his wife have resigned from their positions. An email from Carmichael to the faculty states that the college will pay out a total of $450,000 and contribute an additional $50,000 toward their attorney fees.
Evergreen is a rathole.
The question posed to the panel was “Is the left eating itself?”
Of the four panelists, Bret Weinstein was the last to give his opening statement. Two of the people preceding him (O’Neill and Kipnis) answered the question in the negative, with O’Neill arguing that the campus agitators are actually authoritarians disguising their reactionary impulses in left-wing language. Professor Johnston, the panelist most supportive of the campus activists, argued that the more moderate left should try to embrace the activists who are getting a lot of negative attention for their behavior.
At this point, Weinstein answered the central question in the affirmative. “I think there are a couple of ways to answer this question. One is yes. Another would be, ‘Yes of course it is,'” he said. Weinstein added that the answer seemed so obvious to him that he felt the need to move on to a more interesting question: Why is this happening?
Weinstein suggested any such debate would come down to semantics, i.e. what constitutes ‘the left’ but where previous speakers have argued that the campus activists aren’t really leftists, Weinstein argues that the definition of what constitutes the left is currently “in flux.”
“The first thing that I would suggest is that we may have a basic problem with the game theory of progressivism,” Weinstein said. He added, “It is quite possible that what is taking place is that the left has a bad actor problem that arises out of some of the fundamental assumptions of progressivism.”
Turning to his experience at Evergreen, Weinstein said, “I recognized that there was a hidden dichotomy between two populations within the left.” He continued, “One of those populations earnestly wishes equality, and there can be some debate over what it is that is being equalized, but virtually everybody on the left would say that they are for equality of opportunity.
“Then there is another population that does not wish equality of opportunity, what it wishes to do is to turn the tables of oppression. And the problem for us is that when these two populations are intermingled they sound alike until the point that you reach something like equality of opportunity, and we are nowhere near that point. At that point, they would clearly diverge and you would discover that some of the people who had been pursuing some nominal version of equality were really about some radical version of inequity with new people at the head. And I do think that is what we are facing.”
Weinstein goes on to say that he believes many of the people on the left are unaware that they are part of something which contains these extremist tendencies, which he describes as “unholy and un-American.”
Near the end of this opening statement, he points out that this hidden population of extremists is best viewed as an insurgency, one that uses public deception to cloud some of its own radical goals. “If you recognize it as an insurgency and you stop listening to what it says it is attempting to accomplish, it will be much clearer what is taking place,” he said.
It’s interesting to hear Weinstein, who is a biology teacher, frame this discussion in terms of population ecology. If you think about it, the form of his answer is appropriate given the question the panel was asked, which is about competing populations eating one another.
Weinstein was out of place at Evergreen. Hopefully he goes somewhere that students aren't total idiots.