Post by High Priestess on Jun 17, 2017 7:51:51 GMT
A professor spoke up against an offensive idea, some students got angry, and the result is that the professor has had to go into hiding, the campus commencement exercises had to be held 30 miles off campus, and alt-right protesters have arrived on campus to clash with fanatics on the left.
This isn't a joke -- unfortunately -- it really happened.
www.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/us/evergreen-state-protests.html
www.weeklystandard.com/the-appalling-protests-at-evergreen-state-college/article/2008407
This isn't a joke -- unfortunately -- it really happened.
www.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/us/evergreen-state-protests.html
www.weeklystandard.com/the-appalling-protests-at-evergreen-state-college/article/2008407
The conflict stems from the college’s Day of Absence, a tradition in which black people leave the campus to show what the place would be like without them. This year, organizers suggested the reverse: that white people who wanted to participate would leave while nonwhites stayed, and both groups would attend workshops to, as the email announcement put it, “explore issues of race, equity, allyship, inclusion and privilege.”
In an email to his colleagues, Professor Weinstein, who is white, said that when black people decided to leave, it made sense as “a forceful call to consciousness.” But to ask white people to leave, he wrote, “is a show of force, and an act of oppression in and of itself.”
“I would encourage others to put phenotype aside and reject this new formulation,” he wrote.
What followed can be viewed by anyone with a smartphone: a protest outside his classroom in which students derided his “racist” opinions and called him “useless,” preceded by an expletive; his appearance on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show; and scenes of students and professors arguing with other professors and their college president.
In an email to his colleagues, Professor Weinstein, who is white, said that when black people decided to leave, it made sense as “a forceful call to consciousness.” But to ask white people to leave, he wrote, “is a show of force, and an act of oppression in and of itself.”
“I would encourage others to put phenotype aside and reject this new formulation,” he wrote.
What followed can be viewed by anyone with a smartphone: a protest outside his classroom in which students derided his “racist” opinions and called him “useless,” preceded by an expletive; his appearance on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show; and scenes of students and professors arguing with other professors and their college president.