8:50 This is about playing the believing game.

I want to go there just so I can observe absurdity diversity university

@@commonconservative7551 Don't drink anything sweet and purple.

Sad isn't it? But what's even sadder, it's only one small indoctrination center pebble in a very large pond.

@ So true. In fact, as I understand it, all people die. It's an epidemic.

I would have loved to be there and ask, "what type of discussion would Not be considered obstructionist?"

How about "I learned about experiences in inequities with our students that were outrageous" - George Bridges. He, and the others, never can tell us about any specific instances, however.

Almost sent my oldest daughter there..(or Western Washington University) .. Wwhheeeeww..

You got a REAL education then?

Bluey, dammit man, that was hilarious!

You probably got some trade school training in prison that was far more valuable than anything you could have gotten at a place like Evergreen?

@@ljb8157 or do they seem to commit the Lion's Share of crime, because the black neighborhoods are where the cops are looking for criminals? I don't know, but it's probably a combination. I'm sure there are plenty of people in black neighborhoods who'd like even more cops, especially older people. But if you are a law-abiding young black man, who is subject to stop and frisk every other day, you might get a little... Irritable about the cops.

The Woman In the Voice is my Nightwish cover band.

I had 0 idea wtf she was even talking about.

@@Shyhalu Oh. Let me break it down for you then. What the racists (the black agenda operatives) want to do is in opposition to the data which they are saying supports their racism. And that what they want to do - hiring based on race, for instance, is actually illegal. There. Is that clear enough?

@@tishimself126 I mean the dumb fuck with the mic, not the caller - my bad.

I Work at Evergreen and I'm alumni. I love the college but am very troubled by the direction it is taking. I personally know the woman on the recording. She is smart as hell, loves the college, and wants to use real data to stop this insanity. I think Evergreen is worth saving and many many people that work and teach there are trying like hell to fix the crazyness.

It's about "playing the believing game".

Regressivism is the new religion

Damn fine quote sir!

Its funny, Nietzsche's philosophy is a precursor to Postmodern Thought

Don't forget the stolen air space. I'm waiting for people to reclaim their air. "My ancestors breathed this air generations ago! Now your stealing my air! Furthermore my air space was stolen!"

*FINGER SNAPS*

You'll have to be re-educated as you didn't acknowledge your privilege (you must have some) & didn't indicate your preferred pronouns . The political officer has been informed.

You win the internet! 👏

Re-Stolen, appropriated, etc. how many times. Does a glacier reset the appropriations count?

It's honestly eerie. Places like Evergreen are more fargone than many places, but this religion is growing in ever more fanatical pockets across the civilization, and they seem to be pushing to outdo one another with sheer blind zeal for the cause. This also bears a striking resemblance to the start of "The Great Leap Forward", which also was basically a non-theisistic cult religion that sprang up amongst youth who were told that they were being horribly mistreated, so much so that they were more than perfectly justified in commiting one of the worst atrocities in human history. Not good, but we must continue resisting. Thank you Ben, for all the work you do.

Check out Lindsay, Boghossian and Pluckrose’s talk about Intersectionality as a Religion. Very convincing argument that these people are religious fundamentalists, essentially. The only difference between them and any cult is they don’t claim a supernatural provenance for their authority. The various Grievance Studies ‘scholarship’ takes the place of scripture.

@@AM-yj5yc That's what I thought. It reminded of being in church as a kid. Some of the rhythm, cadence and phrasing sounds familiar. Should you clear your throat and say amen when they are done?

@@madaxe606 There are and have been countless cults that have no supernatural provenance.

why religious zelots? why not ideological fanatics or political manipulators, etc...?

It's human nature. There'll always be climbers and insecure attention-seekers eager to hop on the bandwagon. Then throw in the sincere, but misinformed or easily-led segments, and these things take on a life of their own. You can't point to any one person "causing" it all. You just know that these big institutions are vulnerable to being populated by fools, who are better at PROCESS than WISDOM.

And there will always be power grabbers this is just a typically communist styled way of going about it.

@@jenniferh7297 it's not the power grabbing folks that worry me. I think its repugnant, but I understand why it happens. The scary part is watching educated, intelligent people that obviously realize just how wrong what's happening is, ask forgiveness and almost beg to be allowed to drink the cool-aid. I imagine it's not far from how the Nazis manipulated good people to help round up Jews. I hate to use that analogy, but there it is. Several professors had to know that Brett wasn't a racist, and was only speaking truth.

Harry Mills The real leaders (string pullers) rely of that there are fools, upon fools, and upon fools in the leadership and the rank and file. Only later after much damage and carnage has occurred is there an epiphany. Unfortunately, when the need comes for a house cleaning comes ....

It's beyond nationwide, it's across the entire west, here in the UK they indoctrinate students with much of the same crap, critical race theory, unlearning whiteness classes, discriminatory hiring practices (overtly, most recently in the police service, head chief giving it the go ahead) It has spread like wildfire and is far more dire than people realise, the ideas of lept out of these institutions and into the social sphere so they don't even need to attend such a place to become a pawn of it.

@leah rose fingers crossed

One can only demand capitulation, not respect...

Figures don’t lie...but liars do figure.

@@AnotherPilot1 figures don't lie, but they can be manipulated to the point of being lies.

3 types of lies, lies, damn lies and statistics.

@Smoke DeGrasse Tyson The private sector is repellent to them, only to be turned to as a last resort.

@@lakemichigan6598 A significant exception to this is silicon valley with its far leftist, free speech suppressing, behemoth companies.

@Amused haha! That's funny. I am in the Philippines myself.

@Amused Metro Manila. Though we get around a fair bit.

That's why it needs to be shut down..

It's essentially a non-theistic sort of theology. And a lot of people want to be High Priests and High Priestesses and High Priest-xers.

Nah... the bad clothes they wear give it away.

That jumped out at me too. Affirmative action hiring in practice. Arguably THE top school in the country employs barely coherent professors who will shit on people like me with no college education because I'm the wrong color.

She said "I could OF chose." Even better. But in a previous comment, Ben kindly clarified that MIT is short for masters in teaching at evergreen. I was worried too!

@@janejan9728 oh jeez! That explains a lot.

Jane oooof cooooouuuurrse! Smh.

Was gonna say the same thing!!

They all want to sound like Dr. King. It's so grandiose and contrived.

She's preaching, not teaching. Affirmative action is by definition of the word racist against white and Asian students. The American colleges admit as many black students as possible, including those with lower GPAs, to satisfy these insane quotas. If you have a system tilted in your favor the answer isn't to ask for more. If you give this ideology an inch, it will steal a mile.

Yeah, I had religious zealots in the school I went to when I grew up and I learned quickly to tune their psychotic chanting out whenever they held speeches at different functions at school. They were few but held a lot of power at the school. No one ever really spoke up against them.

Sounds like the people we've elected to the presidency,etc.

Only in regard to her intonation. When you focus on the raw emotionalism of her speech, which is ostensibly about how a data set informed a committee and resulted in a set of reccomendations... In fact her purpose is to proactively encase the committee and their set of recommendations in an armor of feigned emotional earnestness. This is a work more reminiscent of big time wrestling than a sermon. This woman is toxic in the extreme. She talks endlessly about how the data set impacted her emotionally. Excuse me, but that is pure bullshit. I dare you to divert your gaze... really means I dare you to question my analysis of the data. Doing so will result in you being labeled an obstructionist, and I will do all in my power to destroy you. It is a threat.

@James Donnelly Early christians burned heretics? Proof?

@@ivermec-tin666 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hN2Fqs2cqtzJcnk.html

@@ivermec-tin666 it's not 'proof' but 10 minutes into the following is a credible dramatised account of how Christianity got the upper hand after the death of emperor Diocletian. Here's a full length pirated copy: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iZp6oLqL29aqm5s.html

@ht w it's the rise of authoritarianism. Any authority figures tend to blot out individual nuances and there is little tolerance for it in these times. The modern Identitarians on the extreme right and left have set up a persecution/virtue dichotomy. A struggle for control of people's souls, they are power hungry and use 'oppression' of their favoured groups to win the compassion vote. I've just been re-listening to J B Peterson's first ever podcast on his website. He describes the good father and the tyrannical devouring father architypes. We are living in a time where the old moral and economic precepts aren't working, they've lost their value. The dismantling civil rights movement of 60 years ago has now set itself up as the voice of authority, judge and jury in a new tyranny of thought. Nevertheless, people are increasingly anti authoritarian. Anti fascism and radical Islam are Identitarian movements pitting oppressed groups against the mainstream hegemony. Far left and far right political views are too. None of them understand they are the extremists and are projecting their inner anxieties onto anyone that dare challenge their rock of belief. Christianity has become the whipping boy of the wretched moral self flaggelaters, the virtue signallers. The behaviour of the Catholic priesthood has justified the turning away from the guidance that conservatism once offered people during times of uncertainty. Out of ignorance and a mistrust of authority during times of uncertainty, the Christian message is being lumped in with all the other causes jostling for control of the marketplace of public opinion. Unfortunately it is seen as the old guard, no longer current or relavent.

I had the same feeling. That wasnt presenting a report, that was a sermon from the pulpit.

With the self standing in for God.

I'm so glad I couldn't afford to go! Who knows what I would've fallen into. . .

Hey and I can't resist saying, you have an adorable dog! ♥️

That "I could of" always irks me, and my English isn't even that good! 😑

Some bridges need to be burned

@ Just ask Durin's Bane!

That is nonsense. You can easily screen for an entitlement attitude in your interview process. Given that this contageon is epidemic now, you really need to devise some method of assessing the values and priorities of your prospective hires. If you think that these twisted idiots represent the majority of the student body or the alumni of TESC, then you are not paying attention. If you think that this problem is not epidemic in higher education today, then you have a rude awakening in your future. This problem extends from Brown University to Purdue in Indiana, and everywhere in between. Wake up and smell the sjw coffee before you get burned. Would you refuse to hire Matt Groening? Would you refuse to hire Benjamin Boyce? If so, then you are an ideologue, no better than the screeching fools in this video. Be cautious, be inquisitive, and be wise. Don't be a reactionary. It is hard enough to find good people without screening based on your reactionary response to an administration gone mad. It's petty, self indulgent, and foolish. I assure you that guile is not an attribute that these identitarians posess. It really isn't that hard to distinguish between a cobra and a worker bee. If you can't do that, then you have no business hiring anyone.

@@ivermec-tin666 Agreed. I just search for their Facebook and Twitter feed.

@@palmerj213 And at what time do you stop? ideas and values change, would you judge negatively on a 1 year old tweet on the assumption they're still that person from back then? or maybe it's 2 years, 3 years? 10? if you seen some of the shit i've said and no longer believe you'd be in shock.

@@palmerj213 LOL.

@@IISocratesII Are you implying that the idea of a social media score is fraught with danger and malicious possibilities? I am sure the Chinese can make it work. After all, they did put up nets to catch the workers who try to jump off the top of the building. Such a tradition of creative problem solving. Social media is clearly the best thing that Al Gore ever invented.

I'm an Australian - and still find this soap opera curiously engaging. Like watching a pile of cat vomit being consumed by ants in the sun. Lol

I've stapled pictures of kitties and puppies to the inside of my skull so I have something happy to look at when this happens.

@@agargoyle12345 I'm in the habit of keeping a blowhorn and bleach nearby to wash my soul off and drown out my cries of sorrow.

I'm in my 10th year working at Harvard....Harvard Catering Service.

Fuk Im glad you said that!

Pretty sure Jim Jones had had control of his group...

Dingus Khan plus Jim Jones had more charisma than George Bridges

Kenneth Vann bbbbbbbbut MIT, me smart.

@@neilpatton7174 But muh smartness...

@@neilpatton7174 not the actual MIT. That's the acronym they chose for the Masters of Teching

Sorry. Teaching

James Petri even funnier!

It's permeating our Australian culture too - identity politics - aargh! It's pushing some extremicists further right. It is dangerous - they will push and push - until someone is polarised so much that the unthinkable happens. I pray not

BAHAHAHA! Awesome! I watched that movie about a month ago! 😅

Yes, and I'm really curious to know what "outrageous" experiences he's referring to. Somehow it seems more likely that a few genuinely pathologically-hypersensitive students, too emotionally immature to be in college, misinterpreted harmless things as being malicious; and that fit George's pre-packeged agenda. Edit: (in the first clip, I meant)

Washington State recently passed an initiative to implement the equity agenda statewide - all public colleges and state agencies. Very few people in the state have any idea what the equity agenda is about.

“Church Ladies” is exactly right!!! I’m digging up the SNL skit for som fresh memes for that.

So you've been to school for a year or two and you know you've seen it all

True. They ought to be snapping

would you mind not mentioning clapping again please? I thought about it in my head just as I was reading your comment and it was quite triggering thinking about all those violent noises

@@zebbleganubi723 how about spirit fingers? Would that work?

Conversation for a Leftist is just a nice sounding term for brainwashing. “We need to have a conversation about this” means “You need to be collared and brainwashed.”

Where's Donald Sutherland when you need him...

I think he’s been smoking them.

Don't fall asleep...

A new implication of what BS means.

George bridges is a female incel, change my mind.

@@mostlypeacefulrowan8747 George Bridges is a mid-transition male-to-female trap on a strict regimen of soy hormone therapy.

Sweet Jesus George Bridges is so weak he needs to ask the students if he can go to the bathroom.

The tone shift of her voice was chilling. Long pause, hard stare... there's malice there.

Thank Pr1; I’m quite stretched thin with life commitments and hope to one day have enough time to focus on other things.

@@BenjaminABoyce Yeah, I know it's easier to ask than to actually produce. My main point is that I really enjoy your method of analysis over the most common subject matter (Evergreen U) but I find the way you try to dissect things very illuminating. Once again, thanks for the work you put into it all man!

Because the US will be in great shape without education? I guess we can always import people from countries that do value education, as we already do for many tech jobs.

@@alex-qd6of Evergreen is not the only educational institution in the US. That is absurd. And they don't offer an education, but an indoctrination, as far as I can tell

It's easy to say, but when you've already spent money there, and you're mid-year, that's not so easy. That said, it's clearly having an effect on enrolment.

Actually, the Board of Trustees did it to TESC. They were appointed by the governor of the state of Washington. The president serves at the pleasure of the board of trustees. And, you will find analogues of these behind the scenes players at dozens of colleges and universities all across the country. The HEC (Higher Education Coordinating) board is a similarly constituted body, appointed by the governor. This is what happens when you appoint Gordon Gecko clones to run universities and to manage funding for universities. They destroy them just the way that they destroy commercial enterprises. These are people without a moral core, who seek only self gain, at any cost.

Hopefully not vanialla, tho, because that would be RACIST. Also, chocolate???? that's cultural appropriation!