I am the product of a 'mixed-race' marriage in the mid '60's and racism had a significant influence on the person I became, and yet...there's no way I would've been inspired to join the protests or bought into their rhetoric. The protesters and their mentors are so obviously driven by insecurity and the need to control others, making the conclusion that their real goal is nothing other than power - not justice - obvious. I have no doubt Adolf Hitler believed himself to be victimised, and was able to convince tens of millions, many well educated, that they were too...'nuff said.

This has all the feel of a Maoist Struggle Session. It's been said before, I'm saying it again. This is bone-chilling.

"People who identify as white....." So if you're born white, I guess you can identify as black. #ShaunKing

Race, Race, Race! Does anybody at Evergreen ever think about anything else? It has to be such a depressing, miserable place to go to college.

“If we need further education, we can use Google.” I’m sure you’ll come out of Evergreen as shining members of society if you only use Google to further your education.

They bully and push until their target, acting in self-defense, fights back. Then they play up being the victim by downplaying their part and only focusing on the other person's actions.

"Math for Fat & Aggressive Lesbians," an intersectional approach.

It isn't about equality, it's about power inversion.

This video will take us not only into the future, but Bjorn.

What is the point of being a student at Evergreen. Putting a degree from this school on a resume will assure that you can't get a job as a Walmart door greeter. I cannot imagine that any employer would take the chance of hiring anyone who attended classes there.

Unfund that hole and let them sink or swim on merit. I did not have enough time to throw tantrums in college or to rant about racism or whatever. I was too busy studying. Who is going to hire anyone from that zoo?

That text in the beginning sounds like an apt description for slavery. Replace oppressor with slaves and poc with master. Flawless description.

I'm an expert of my own experience. I grew up dirt poor. I never received an ounce of white privilege.

Deprogramming cultish thinking is notoriously slow and gradual. There's no magic bullet for this one.

I don't know why the phrase 'people of color' sounds so much more demeaning and racist to me than even the outdated 'colored people' ever did, but it really does. 'People of color' just makes it seem like color is your whole essence, like it's fundamental to who you are, while colored people is the more natural adjective followed by noun. I understand the history that shades the latter expression, but I think the people who came up with 'people of color' were intentionally or unintentionally highlighting the importance of race in their ideology, and if you don't share their messed up beliefs, it just sounds like an unhealthy focus put on an unchosen characteristic.

At only 3.95% cat, this is one of the most inefficient cat videos I have ever seen. Paw rating: .5 out of 4

I have never managed to find a cogent answer to this question: if POC are experts in their own experience, by virtue of the fact that only if you belong to a category can you really know what you feel, think, what drives you and so on, why is it that POC get to be also experts in what it's like to be white, the whole civility thing, the whole white fragility thing, the whole every white person is racist thing? I mean, if you can only talk about a particular group if you're within that group, then why can't white people legitimately have their own expression about how they feel? Like not racist, or angry or scared to be shouted at and insulted by a mob of people, or annoyed by people who feel they can shoult at you while you can't even point a finger, that sort of thing?

@14:35 when you begin the train of thought that leads to everything being a social construct - that's when you hit on the Truth of what happened. Brilliant work.

Where on earth, other than at Evergreen and college campuses like it, do people think and act like this? Do they really believe in the real world those they designate as 'oppressors' are always going to meekly get out of their way whenever they choose to make a SJW stink? I don't know what kind of careers they expect to carve out of their collegiate experiences but if they ever behave anything like they have at Evergreen while at work, they won't last the day. Seeing yourself as the constant victim is a ruinous mindset leading to tragic results. It's nearly impossible to find either professional success or happiness when your focus is primarily on anger & retribution, and not on achievement. The only people who do well by the idea of victimization are those who sell it for a living.

Maybe it's just white old me, but terms like "racial justice" don't exactly give me the warm and fuzzies.

There were times when I was first reading Rand's philosophy of Objectivism when I questioned how I would apply something so obvious, so simple, so grounded in directly observable reality. Many years later, here we are; the perfect example of where I can apply everything I learned about objective reality, axiomatic concepts, rational self-interest, everything I learned from Rand. My gratitude for Rand's clarity of thought has never been greater.

I'm really starting to notice how much time and research you commit to your work here bro. Thanks and loves ya, I need it all broken down for me cuz I'm dumb.

The correct judge of racism is someone observing it from the outside, just like the correct judge in sports is a referee. A direct participant is always a bad choice for a judge because they are inherently biased.

Benjamin, great to hear you are doing a documentary on Evergreen. No other person better qualified than you.

Thanks for your work Mr Boyce

A documentary is a huge undertaking. You need a written script that coincides with the video footage you are going to use. This is literally sever hundreds of hours of work. I hope you have some help that understands the ins and outs of such an endeavor. As always I wish you my best and will continue to give my support [keep an eye out].

Your most incisive analysis so far. Great work.

How does one "identify as" white? LOL.

I like where you're going at 14:50 with, “They've already been excused from any sort of reckoning because everything is inherently a social construct. There is no room for... feedback from reality.” How true. If everything is a social construct, you can model your beliefs to suit your preferences and dismiss all contrary factual truths as competing social constructs lacking the obvious moral authority you derive from membership in your elite social order. Thus, any person or process that produces evidence of a contrary truth can legitimately be demonized and persecuted. Also, nice use of eo ipso at 14:05.

How do students and teachers end up thinking this way? The immediate parallel I think of is Cambodia in the 70s, where revolutionaries and students considered their country's way of life of so impure that 'unlearning' their culture could only be achieved by destroying it. Considering this was long before the ideology was augmented by feminist PoMo neoMarxist thinking and without the racial element inherent to the US mindset, any attempt to understand the motives of the Evergreen radicals inevitably leads back to revolutionary Marxist ideals. Evergreen shows us what happens when radical indoctrination is allowed to run unfettered through academia. Sure, Evergreen students didn't quite reach the levels of the killing fields in Cambodia, but just as Pol Pot and his revolutionaries banished citizens from the cities and into the countryside to work the farms, white-skinned students and academics were forced from Evergreen and off campus for reeducation. And just as the revolutionaries of history dehumanized their enemies by claiming that as bourgeois they lacked the lived experience of the working class, Evergreen students dehumanize people along racial lines by declaring that white people are incapable on any level of understanding the lived experience of poc. The purpose of this thinking is the accumulation and wielding of power. The radicals don't care if people get hurt in the process, the only thing that matters is that the power gets wielded. Remember, when reeducation failed in Cambodia the mass executions started. I have no doubt that the teachers who pushed radical neoMarxism at Evergreen would continue to submit entirely to the ideological outpourings of the students even if it led to violence and death.

You are a good guy Ben. Great work.

OMG. I just had the weirdest of brain farts. JF Gariepy's review of the movie CONTACT tonight. The variations of human or abstract concepts and how they do or do not come together. Worth a watch.

I wrote a huge word salad, touchy-feely, let’s have a talk kind of diatribe. I sounded like such an ass I junked in favour of simplicity. I’m glad you have cats to distract you from this task you’ve taken on. Remember to listen to the purr at least once a day so I won’t worry about you my friend.

You always look so comfortable. It's like you're always wearing a commercial for fabric softener. I want to pet you non-sexaually until I no longer want a puppy.

Benjamin you are a proper trooper mate x

As a descendant of Irish on both sides of my family (fair skin & light eyes as far back as photography exists), the irony isn't lost on me. Not too long ago establishments had posters in windows of "no blacks no dogs no Irish".

Once you demonise any group you then become directly responsible for whatever injury to a member of that group incurs. You can't say say, "It wasn't me I didn't do it." Or, "It's not my fault they brought it down upon themselves." You are to blame.

"Flakey, surface-level identity thing"...I'm using that!

Awesome ending! Love your cat! :)

I just have a thought. I'd be interested in seeing an analysis of how certain people starting shouting about institutionalized racism/sexism when there wasn't any (there used to be) in order to install their own institutionalized racism/sexism under the guise of quotas and trying to "help" marginalized people

"A wild sprout.""

I also realize that, while the term 'Orwellian' is used a lot these days, if it doesn't describe Prof. Sweet's letter to Ms. Love, I don't know what does. It sounds like it could've been written as a 'love' letter to Big Brother by 1984's Winston after having been successfully brainwashed by O'Brien. The deft and care with which she threads her SJW rhetoric into a tapestry of 'woke' doublespeak is truly mesmerizing.

Cat in a box = brilliant conclusion. Bravo!

At the start of the video, it looks like the Nazis herding Jews onto the trains. For people who hate Nazis so much, they sure try to emulate them a lot.

"Equity" is simply a nicer way of saying "Social Revenge". "Punish the X of today for the crimes against Y yesterday." It's the most commonly repeating tale of tragedy in human history.

"We're all one humanity!" Also: "OMG whites and blacks _cannot_ experience life the same!"

Listening to these adherents at Evergreen speak feels more and more like the intonements of some new scripture. The level of self-flagellation for the original sin of whiteness is pathetic and disgusting. I have a new motto for Evergreen: Beyond sanity.

This is so 1984. George Orwell would be shocked.

It's lovely and amazing to watch this monstrosity crumble before our eyes.

Would you want your taxes funding Scientology? Why would you fund this?

BENJAMIN! I hope you can make a hyperlink version of your documentary. Start with a timeline on a web page. Make hyperlink nodes that lead to different pages of evidence, including video footage (raw and with commentary) and letters. It will make it really easy to access. A lot of work, but I don't know anyone who has done a documentary this way.

I taught I saw a puddy cat a creeping up on me! Love your cat! The story of Evergreen makes me rage, The story of those in evergreen wanting to learn, get their certification and go into the world to grow, makes me sad. What a debacle, and they pay these faculty members to teach this shite?

Ah, the box. The only toy a cat is guaranteed to play with. Great video, Ben.

Please believe me, I am not being hyperbolic or patronizing, but this is a brilliant and succinct analysis you've presented of unconscious bias, racism and anti-intellectual and anti-common sense fanaticism. It actually causes sadness in me this glorying in victim-hood, fragility and demonizing of other viewpoints and not seeking to "go beyond" oppression but simply reverse who the oppressors are, namely the "victims" now get the "joy" of being the oppressors, with no accountability. This is what goes for education of our future leaders?

Where was the racial justice for the whites and mixed race people of haiti. They couldn’t pass to tar test so they were murdered.

TO EQUALITY AND BEYOND!!!

Great video. At one point watching and listening I realized that if the videos of what is going on hadn't come out last year, all of this racism and post modern garbage would be going on in the dark and no one would have been the wiser. What is even scarier is that even though this has been brought to the light of day, they did not decide to go back to logic and reason and attempts toward unity. Instead, they have simply doubled down and I imagine is way worse. I can imagine these perpetrators attempting to get revenge for the sins of the past by oppressing white people are adamant in policing their "allies" and making it clear they are no longer allowed to video any of their repulsive behavior.

Your efforts to salvage Evergreen are like someone trying to bail water on the Titanic with a colander.

the point is to be excited about our differences but come together as Americans. we are completely being screwed over hard by evergreen

The BEST part was the BLACK & WHITE cat in the box!.... Ben, I feel for you, man! I'm just like shakin' my head and wondering WTF?.... *WHO* is the BIG$$$ behind all this crap....????....

Ben, your work is invaluable as it illustrates very clearly the tremendous hurdles we face in building a society of mutual respect and harmonic symbiosis. On another note, congratulations on illustrating the innovative utilization of cardboard packaging as a feline amusement park, although I can definitely see the seeds of colonialism and systems of oppression in that one, as well.

Spoiled, coddled children. I would bulldoze that entire institution.

Since the new facists call themselves anti-facists, it stands to reason that the new racists would call themselves anti-racists...

They're not allies, they're supplicants.

When one side in a dispute declares that the difference between the sides is too great that they can only discuss the issues within their own group they have essentially declared that they are not interested in understanding. That is exactly when the conversation should happen all together and not apart. Integration not segregation.

I hope your documentary makes it to Netflix and film festivals. Pretty sure the Olympia film festival won't touch it. They have similar sjw standards for admission to the festival.

So according to these well educated people the experience of A 55-year-old journalist and volunteer first responder was attacked from behind before being dragged into a parking lot in New Jersey. Then, his assailant stole the man’s car and used it to drive over the victim’s head, leaving him gravely injured. “Jerry Wolkowitz, a longtime EMT and journalist, has died nearly six months after a brutal, allegedly racially motivated beating,” reported the Asbury Park Press, a news outlet that also published much of the freelance reporter’s photographs over the years. Did not die from a racial attack but rather a just retribution for his whiteness. Now we understand that any action by any person of color is excused from any responsibility due to consequences of those action. What this says is that people of color are not capable of dealing with the slings and arrows of outrageous fortunate that each and everyone of has experienced in our lives at some point of other. What that means is when a Hispanic co-worker and her black boyfriend decided to rob the Federal Way Department of Licensing I was the representative of their racially based discriminatory experiences and should have welcomed him with open arms and apologize for his deprived existence while he stuck that .45 in my chest and then my ear. I am deeply sorry that he had to go to the trouble and distress of having to do that to experience some degree of relief from all the problems in his life brought on by living in such a repressive society. But then as a somewhat well known black man once wrote' 'Pick a better country; (Ken Hamblin).

I used to find these videos bizarrely interesting, somewhat like the scene of a major traffic accident. These days, however, I'm inclined to think of a scene from "Aliens". Namely, the "nuke it from orbit" discussion. Just kill it with fire, please, and do something useful with the real estate.

Love the way you think. Love you. Quite like your cats.

Sensible people's view: "Your progress and my progress need to meet in the middle for us to progress together". Progressivist people's view: "Your progress is my destruction. My progress is your destruction. Don't get in my way, or I'll make sure your progress stops permanently". It is a question of the partially selfless vs the totally selfish. 🤔 Thoughts?

4:53 to infinity and beyond!!!!!! XD

The Evergreen racists were torn, Over Agnetha, Benny, and Björn; But sweet Anni-Frid, Had tried soothing their needs: Her huwite-ness brought nothing but scorn!

16:40 Cleave to, not cling to. The difference is subtle, but expresses the emotion involved better.

They can call me a “white supremacist,” and say I’m “privileged,” or “fragile,” all they want... IDGAF. The fact that I’m white doesn’t make me responsible for ANYTHING I haven’t personally done. The fact that people who aren’t white, aren’t white, doesn’t mean they know ANYTHING about racism, so-called “oppression,” or ANYTHING ELSE, that I don’t know. They can miss me with that attempt at shaming me with those white guilt tactics. I literally couldn’t possibly care less about ANYTHING those racist extremists have to say. If my existence, as a white male, and the existence of ANY OTHER white males, “oppresses” anyone- I suggest they learn to control their emotions, and deal with THEIR OWN RACISM and FRAGILITY, because they’re in for a LIFETIME OF BEING OPPRESSED. My best advice is DEAL WITH IT... or I’m sure I can list off a couple of alternatives, if they just can’t cope with being around white people, or with being white (if they are white). Either way, come at me with that RACIST BULLSHT, and if it’s a confrontation they’re looking for, they’ll absolutely find it...

If i were an employer, i would NOT hire anyone who graduates from this college. It's embarassing. What degrees do they actually offer now? Nevermind, nothing but trouble makers!

I think that's an important point at 18:04, that in American culture today, taking comfort from one's ethnicity is seen as a form of weakness among certain groups of white people. I think that attitude became an important but unnoticed cornerstone of late-stage dignity culture, which explains why liberals over a certain age are completely unprepared for the identity-politics onslaught. We thought the legitimacy of those ideas was dead and buried a long time ago and were simply not capable of imagining it's rise (in an inverted form) on the left.

I wonder what older black people who actually experienced real racism thing about this new young soft generation. They faced German Shepards and fire hoses and these kids have safe spaces "victim privilege"

Cats show up after the video to lift our spirits.

It literally is the same nonsense of ever exaggerating arguments I'd have as a child with friends, cousins etc. I still recall the frustration of trying to argue a point in the face of them just making it up as required to prolong until i threw my arms up in dismay or we came to blows... Kids eh?

Yes. Speaking of accountability, I'm hoping that one of the focuses of your doc is to make accountable the 'adults' that are responsible for inspiring and encouraging the reprehensible actions of the students. The apparent point of the Day of Absence was to 'encourage' white people to stay off campus in order to 'center' People of Color. As an educator and community leader, I try to encourage the adoption of responsibility, as JBP says, for one's life, for the community, and for each other, to extent they may be competent to do so. Maybe this project is so hard because I haven't employed the Evergreen version of 'encouragement,' which clearly involves stalking, threatening, shouting people down, insulting and publicly berating them, etc. I wonder how this would play with the homeless, panhandlers, and truly fragile and mentally ill I encounter in my neighborhood and beyond?

The kitty found a 'safe place' from which to attack!!! :))

I simply DETEST the way this woman (2:50) pronounce the phrase "fine art"!

I hate to say it, but I agree with Gerg C's comment. I'm just exhausted by trying to keep up with the story. I'll check back in six months and see if there has been any movement. At this point, I think the best response is just to ignore the demonstrators and "don't rent them space in your head." Talk to you all later.

Victim oppressor victim oppressor victim oppressor and I've gone cross eyed.

I don't know if this is will help but I would highly recommend reading Arthur Deikman's 'US and Them'. Especially the first few chapters where he goes through a case of two people leaving a cult where one key principle of control was the person 'wanting to be a good person' and the cult controlling what that meant, which mirrors the pattern of white Allyship. Further his brief description of how North Korea controls the population was a real eye opener as it described accurately how Social Justice controlled my beliefs. It basically runs that people are taught to think badly of the Dear leader is the greatest evil yet he abuses the people so they naturally feel poorly towards him. They are then kept in a state cognitive dissonance of feeling they are bad and this triggers a sort reverse reaction where they signal their love ever greater to not be an evil person.

Students used to respect teachers, liked or not. People come together to find a common thread and resolve differences. Asking questions leads to knowledge and should be encouraged at learning institutions. Not respecting teachers leads to not respecting anyone, which leads to anarchy. Segregating groups is authoritarian. Shutting down questions can either be anarchy or authoritarian or both.

George Bridges - the human jellyfish wobbling around in the background and doing nothing.

How Sweet and Love-ly Evergreen State is! As a committed felinist, I demand that Ben be permanently evicted from his lodgings for systematic macro/micro oppression of a cat.

In making sense of a particular historical moment or period in the life of a social or political movement, it is essential to recognize that this cannot be done from within the framework of the movement itself. Attempting to do so is to travel down the rabbit hole with Alice, whereupon all frame of reference is lost, or to find oneself on the Yellow Brick Road as Dorothy. One must remember where one came from, otherwise this is a one way journey, a bad trip from which there can be no return. If one wants to get back to Kansas, then one must retain the habits of language, thought, and being of Kansas. The identitarian movement is beyond analysis because it is entirely self referential, it denies the validity of Aristotelian logic, and of the scientific method itself. The linguistic framework of this movement has been constructed so as to preclude any intersection with reality. For this reason, not only is it beyond analysis (and therefore beyond criticism) it is also beyond compromise, settlement, or reconciliation. There is no definable end point, no sum of reparations that would settle the score. No point at which hostilities might cease. This is defined as a struggle without end, an endless war. Marxists refer to this as a process of endless revolution. Identitarians invoke this idea when they say, "now, and beyond". It is akin to the ending part of the Lord's Prayer, "... forever and ever, Amen." It is on this point that those who assert that identitarians are engaged in a sort of Neo-Marxism are correct. The identitarians have no articulated science of economics, as Marx wrote. Rather, they impute the Marxist framework, but substitute melanin for class. They mistakenly call this "race", but it is not essentially about race. It is about class under the guise of melanin. So, identitarianism can be seen as Marxism from an alternate universe. We know the end goal, the telos, of Marxism. The telos of identirarianism is something unspoken. Formally, they reject teleology. But, how then do you measure your progress? Is this done simply through measuring the level of destruction you cause, the pain and suffering you inflict, or the dollars you accrue? Dare to reveal it, to speak it, and you will have pulled back the curtain. Identitarians seem to subscribe to a world view based on scarcity, as do Marxists. This means that they take it on faith that creating wealth or abundance is impossible; and that redistribution of the fixed set of goods is essential to the project. They are Malthusians, like Marx. This means that they are by definition a destructive force. They are entropy incarnate. It seems to me that one could analyze identitarians through the narrative cycle, just as a Hollywood script writer does. The conventional plot requires 3 roles; a victim, a persecutor, and a rescuer. It is notable that identitarians insist upon only 2 of these roles. But that is not possible if there is to be movement in the storyline. So, who is the rescuer? Why are they not spoken of? Identify how that role is performed, and you will reveal what animates the cycle. Another lens through which it would be possible to analyze identitarianism is through the biological frame of hormesis; which is the physiological manifestation of Nietzsche's most often quoted phrase, "that which does not kill you makes you stronger". The corollary being that an animal that does not experience periodic challenges fails to fully develop and express it's full potential. Clearly, this process is at play in the identitarian script. Perhaps this is what is touched on by the recent NRP meme which seems to elicit such reactivity among identitarians. Perhaps the bluntest instrument for making sense of the identiarian movement is game theory. You make a passing reference to this being a "zero sum game". That is certainly not the perspective of the various players in this movement. Define the players on campus. Define their roles and the nature of the game at TESC ante identitarian coup and compare and contrast that with their roles and the nature of the game during and post identiarian coup. If this can be done without becoming distracted by the language of race, then you will have achieved an incisive analysis that cuts to the heart of the matter and neutralizes the linguistic traps. In most of these analytical models the lexicon of the cult of identiarianism needs to be defined, without self reference. And, those terms which cannot be defined without self reference must be rejected; otherwise, no progress will be possible. The language of a cult is a quagmire. This is intentional. It is the moat full of alligators intended to keep outsiders outside and insiders inside. I must point out that in this video you have two identitarians of authority expressing conflicting views of racism. The first states that only poc experience racism; and then the second, while attempting to justify the segregation practiced on the day of absence, stated that poc and white prople experience racism differently. Which is it? Both cannot be true. Racism is either a shared experience, or not. If it is, then we should talk about that. If it is not, then why should those who have not, do not, and cannot experience it care in the least? What is "social justice"? Is it a good thing? How will we know when we have achieved it? What does it mean to engage in social justice "work"? If it is a thing that is so ephemeral, so elusive, so intangible that no one can define it, then why should anyone care?

A somewhat facetious question: If I'm a symbol of white oppression whatever I do, is there a significant change in rhetoric if I just go full Deus Vult?

The solution is simple: no campus group may discriminate based upon a person's race. No campus group may deny access to its activities or facilities based upon race. If you are unable or unwilling to abide by there requirements, then you are not permitted to operate on campus or make use of campus funds or facilities.

If they think that "education is a political project", then doesn't it follow that state funding for education is political spending and, therefore, should not be allowed? Oh wait, I forgot. Logical consistency is an oppressive tool of the Patriarchy, isn't it :P

Does the Fiske Guide to Colleges understand what is happening on Evergreen State campus before listing it as a recommended college for the incoming freshman?

I keep wanting to think that this stuff will end with graduation for these kids, but I'm already running into them in the real world. A late twenties looking white girl came by the store I work at today and we started talking about my town. She's a post grad out of Chicago and was thinking that maybe she wanted to move here. So she's asking me generic questions right about the weather here, the bar scene and stuff and then out of nowhere she goes, "And what the diversity like here?" When I paused she made this "cringe" face and asked "Is it a pretty white town?". I didn't even know what to say. What she was really asking was, "It it a pretty racist town?" The term white is now interchangeable with the term racist. And she seemed like a perfectly nice girl... walking around with this toxin in her brain she doesn't even know is there.

cant wait to see bens documentary on evergreen, any idea when it will be out?

This is so bad that it isn't even wrong.

On the humourous side. I see into the future , a bus, and on this bus sitting together in the front are Coloured people. Meanwhile in the back of the bus are some White women with contented, blissful smiles on the faces. Raptuous in the knowledge that they have finally risen to the top as the ultimate victims.

I have a question,,, FYI, My ancestor came to America as a slave. He was a slave for 7 years and then escaped. I have 0% African in my history. Now how would these unhappy people deal with that?

The lady at 2:20 onward seemed pretty fearful. As if she was pressured to give this talk to the people around her. I feel bad for her, being in such a position. You can see her trying to keep her voice and hands from trembling. What a trainrweck of a school..