This has to be THE MOST EXPENSIVE daycare ever.

To help with marketing, delete the Diversity Department.

"If you give these people power, they hate you even more." This 100%.

If I wasn't in a library when I listenrd to this, I would have started screaming. That speech about white people not deserving patience or understanding is the most racist speech I have ever heard in my entire life, and listening to it made me livid.

Who would have thought someone from Evergreen would be for deforestation.

OMG!!!! Clearly she never read Thoreau! Or paid attention to anything else about Evergreen's environmentalist history! WTF! I've never heard such an incoherent speech in my life 🤨. I'm embarrassed.

marginalized: 75% of the people stand up..

The speech is mostly incomprehensible; the little that is comprehensible is reprehensible.

"Nuke it from orbit. Only way to be sure."

This is so chilling. Not just what they're saying, but the way they can't even hear themselves at all.

Inclusivity means excluding white men. Diversity means uniformity of thought.

The woods “deep, dark, & uninhabited” . No, many people, animals, insects, and plants live in the forest. Very populated. Interesting she finds the woods something to be afraid of. What a nonsensical speech.

That moronic speech isn't just ignorant & illogical, it's positively arborophobic!

It sounds like race-based narcissism. These students are being trained for a very sick relationship with the world.

If they only knew how many jobs they are forever locked out of simply because they have Evergreen on their resume.

This school has fallen hard at one time it was my top pick because my brother went there in the early 2000's, but as soon as the protest ended up on the news my parents sorted through all of my college handouts and letters and put all of the Evergreen ones in the shredder they later did the same to the ones from Mizzou. Now before I can consider looking at a colleges website I have to look up its news and protest history to determine if it is an institution of learning or an adult daycare/manifesto camp.

I'm pretty sure Thoreau went to the woods to get away from the wack-job equivalent of these psyco's.

I like to think her speech was unconsciously saying, "This school sucks and should be abolished." Its also terrible how she refered to white students as "financially stable." These financially stable people are the only reason the lights are still on.

Rather than walking among tall trees to grow even taller...you should; CUT THE TREES ALL DOWN! Wow! Just Wow.

Close that toxic intellectual cesspit, decontaminate the land and return it to nature. More beautiful forms of life will spring naturally.

Jesus christ, that graduation speech. What a god damned nightmare.

It's like asking for an ad campaign to help sell tickets for a ride on the Titanic... After it already sank.

I feel sorry for the college graduates. This feels like being stripped of something vital.

The sunburn really added another layer to your anger. Great video. The emotional ones are the best.

asking disabled people to stand? she has a sense of humour at least

"Thoreau Brand Chainsaws - when you gotta clear the forest fast!"

Wow, that graduation speech was like.... MissingThePoint.mp3. She failed to understand anything Thoreau said. And who the hell preaches bulldozing forests as a good message!?

I wish my job would PUSH me out by paying me 240k. Welcome it.

You need to be a masochist to attend this college

There is unrest in the Forest There is trouble with the trees For the Maples want more sunlight And the Oaks ignore their pleas The trouble with the Maples And they’re quite convinced they’re right They say the Oaks are just too lofty And they grab up all the light But the Oaks can’t help their feelings If they like the way they’re made And they wonder why the Maples Can’t be happy in their shade There is trouble in the Forest And the creatures all have fled As the Maples scream ‘Oppression!’ And the Oaks just shake their heads So the Maples formed a Union And demanded equal rights ‘The Oaks are just too greedy We will make them give us light’ Now there’s no more Oak oppression For they passed a noble law And the trees are all kept equal By hatchet, axe, and saw - "The Trees", Rush (lyricist: Neil Peart)

Wow! she read Thoreau, and she came away from it wanting to clear cut the forests? How did that happen?

"Now there's no more oak oppression For they passed a noble law And the trees are all kept equal By hatchet, Axe, And saw" RUSH

"I wonder what inspired Thoreau to venture into the woods." Great news! He wrote a book about it. "While it's true that Thoreau could have found himself literally walking through the words, I like to think..." No. No no. Stop right there. He was literally walking through the woods. He wrote a book about it. "Cut down the trees, and the woods Thoreau was talking about." ::Thoreau rolls:: "Murky wood." Murky Walden Pond. "Sell the forest." ::Thoreau dies, again::

God damn. I saw the title of this video as the notification came up, I almost fell off my chair. You're right. Evergreen has given you A LOT!

As a Latino, I avoid these people from Greenwood College, by any means.

Replace with "a quote from some old dead black dude" and see the reaction.

"Please provide a testimonial....". Run run run far away.

The forest has left the chat

Once they get what they want, they realize they're still not happy because why would you be happy when people patronize and behave inauthentically around you.

If she wants to experience walking through a dark wood she should read Dante. Did she just Google tree metaphors to generate this sylvan word salad? And I'm fed up with being told I'm white/old/affluent/straight/whatever I should apologise for it. Bug off. I've worked hard for what I've got and when I was her age I had nothing. I no longer have to justify who I am. Rant over.

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I like the bit where she asks disabled people to stand up.

At my college graduation, an Asian descent businessman said something like "engineering prepares you to sniff out the phonies who get by life telling everyone lies. And they're hoping you're not smart enough to figure it out. They'll lose their power." Glad we didn't get a mindless racism lecture

She sounded so uneducated. I am vicarious embarrassed for her, the students in the audience, and the college.

"Cut down the trees...?" She's hell bent on turning a metaphor into a parking lot.

as a black man, that commencement speech was very racist

The undergraduate student has CLEARLY NEVER taken a walk in the deep woods .... talk about disconnection from the systems and processes that not only sustain our lives, but actually and literally produced our actual EXISTENCE!........ OH, I recognize my implicit biases, all right ... and people like HER are doing everything imaginable TO CONFIRM THEM!

That guy better not sign that contract and needs to walk out of that relationship....holy crap

So the speaker basically divided the graduates into 2 parts, and said the 2nd part better watch out because the 1st part was planning on "chopping them down" if they got in their way. Basically validated the notion that the 1st part can and should attack the 2nd and that the 2nd should just take it. What a positive message. Evergreen has learned NOTHING except more critical race theory and identity politics. That's not divisive. That's not destructive. That's not bat-shit crazy.

100 gallons of gasoline + lit match = problem solved

She's obviously never read anything substantial by Thoreau.

What a ridiculous exercise. If the best graduation speaker my alma mater could produce was a critter like this, I would denounce the institution as a lunatic asylum. This woman's career choices after 4 years at Evergreen are limited to either a civil service job or crime.

I agree with Tom Hansen, “Nuke it from orbit...”

Wow, that woman’s metaphor is really confused re: the trees.

She's asking disabled people to stand up. Shame on her! She direspected their safe spaces.

Nice one. First time I've seen Benjamin's blood rise and you can absolutely see why . That Lowe woman seems positively evil . Is some of the anger about her weight ? The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. _Robert Frost_

From what I can tell, Thoreau never said that, which seems absolutely fitting with the level of intellectual rigor on display.

Finding a vertebrate replacement for spineless George Bridges would be reputation boosting

“Thank you for that message of inspiration and hope.” Perfect ending😂

You do a great job of helping to expose the madness.

That cut down the tall trees reference was chilling...

Why does the identity of "financially secure" only ever intersect with "white" and "cis?"

Telling someone "don't become an obstacle" is generally saying "don't get in my way".

What if I am disabled, black and financially secure? I don't know where I would fit in her tree metaphor.

Woods are full of life. The life needs the trees. If you chop down the trees you end up in a desert.

That commencement speech was the most cringe worthy bullshit I’ve heard in a long time. Actually I’ve been hearing so much cringe worthy bullshit from the left lately that it’s hard to decide what’s the most cringe worthy. But this tops the list.

you gotta love the hippo in the grad gown

I'm sure she'll become a contributing member of society ………….

I think it’s jolly useful to film these graduation events, it gives plenty of opportunity for prospective employers to inform themselves about who to avoid taking on to their payroll.

2:53 wow, she really gets thoreau. I'm glad she really understands the depth here and didn't just do a search on Google about trees.

Thank you for making and posting this video. I hope more people see it.

I am white and Native American dyslexic learning disabled Asperger's gay man who practices the most persecuted religion in the world. I zig zaga crossed the hell's half acre that is life but this privileged young woman looks at me sees a white man and automatically demands a thousand different things in order to help her in life?

"Stand up, marginalized people" >Almost everyone stands

Sack Bridges and the entire diversity and equity admin. Dump grievance studies. Get Weinstein back. Appoint Boyce as president.

I identify as whatever gets me the most

8:27 "I'm a school's half full kind of president", LOL

near the end you used the word deplorable to describe these people. that should be the title of your video " Evergreen: a basket of depolrables" The irony would be too sweet.👌

Cannot believe what I've heard... Is that what that school continues to teach? No marketing strategy can help them. PS. I get the metaphor about the tall trees... What about really thick trees?

Your videos are getting better and better. Thank you.

Im having less than polite thoughts toward that speech.

Trees grow like grass in western Washington State. That is why it is called The Evergreen State. The color palate of the landscape in Washington state is dominated by seemingly infinite shades of green. The woods are not frightening, and they are certainly not vacant. This land is teeming with life; raccoons, deer, mice, sloths, possums, stellar jays, ravens, woodpeckers, centipedes, a vast array of fungi and ferns, and broad carpets of moss. Even the bears are not frightening in western Washington. They are frightened of you! Higher education in Washington State is largely funded through the taxes on the timber industry. And yet there is this refrain among this naima crew of how frightening the woods are; and how they want to clearcut the land, to strip it bare. This is a telling metaphor for what they seek to do; to turn the world into a wasteland, some sort of post apocalyptic ghetto. The prospect of being still long enough to hear what the trees have to tell is beyond them. The forest is comprised of a vast array of individual trees; hemlock, western red cedar, redwood, vining maple, alder, tamarack, and a variety of fir trees. Each tree has a particular texture, scent, and range of color. Each tree has a spirit of it's own, a voice of it's own, and an authentic story of it's own. That is the beauty of the forest. And, that is what so frightens these identitarians. In time, these people will clear through the system at TESC, but wherever they go, they will seek to manifest the ghetto that they have embodied. This is a sort of demon possession. That is why they hate the trees. Trees are strong and resilient, and generative. Trees are the lungs of the earth. Of course they fear the forest, it is full of ancient and immutable wisdom. The forest, in time, does regenerate itself. But the spiritual disease that these people carry is incurable and fatal. They seek to set themselves apart from civil society, and yet to reap it's benefits. A wiser tribe would have cast them out. That is the traditional means of dealing with those who violate the social contract. Let them live as lone wolves. I fear that there isn't enough lipstick in the world to pretty up this pig. TESC does not have a marketing problem. It has a quality control problem in it's executive leadership. The whole insane snapping, ranting, potty mouthed sjw schtick is a product without a market.

Rise up, achieve and stand tall. But easier to just cut down everything to your level. Equity.

i stopped hiring people who have graduated from evergreen. and i dont think i am alone in this.

Bravo for you, Ben. This is inane and insane that I am speechless.

Considering the student population has cut in half wouldn't it stand to reason that these hateful people are almost all that is left ?

Whoa! Benny, I'm proud of ya! For two years I've been waiting for your carefully-maintained even keel and equanimity to come to a righteous boil.....I waited, sometimes despairingly so, for you to outright warn the young people about to make a terrible error in judgment: DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME AND MONEY TO COME TO THIS PLACE. And finally, you did it! My boy, if I were there with you right now, I would be gratefully shaking your hand until both our wrists ached! Well _said,_ Mr Boyce!....well said!

This place really needs to have its state funding pulled. I received an alumni newsletter from my alma mater and I swear, the word "diversity" appears on just about every page. It's full-blown religious thinking in the academy now, the fear of being called racist has made higher education hollow.

Telling the "disabled" to stand! Lol! That's cold. Surprised she didn't instruct an able-bodied person to carry them😂

"i invite the disabled to stand for a moment"

actual LOL when I got the push notification and read the title

The funny thing is...the Hutu and Tutsi were originally from the same group of people. They were divided by height, and facial features when Belgium and France took over Rwanda. Also, did y'all know HDT burned down a forest accidentally after his campfire jumped it's confines?

8:48 Wow. It still throws me for a loop when they blatantly express their disdain for civility. Keep in mind, those for civility are civilized, those against it are called savages or barbarians.

Good lord. Looked Aurielle Marie up on Twitter and after her seeing her completely bungling the forest/tree metaphor here, discovered she has a career as a poet and writer. Also that hundreds of people who follow her, also follow me.

I think blushing Fuji apple is a good description.

He ACTUALLY admits to going to evergreen ! WOW !

**Evergreen State College Alumnus, Class of 1998** Ahh yes. Oh how well I remember...I transferred to Evergreen midway through my Sophomore year. I moved approximately 2,200 miles away and knew no one. It was exciting... new school...new people...new environment... Within two weeks, I became consciously aware of something...yet...I couldn't pinpoint it. It was an odd feeling. Maybe it was all in my head. "Seminar" is an integral component of Evergreen's approach to education. On paper, they define "Seminar" as "an open-ended, loosely structured conversation between students and faculty within a program or course". It was in Seminar that I was introduced to my new reality. Naive and new to this system, I went off script. I felt the one-sided discussion would benefit from an opposing view point. However, I was told, in just as many words, my opinion, argument or view means nothing. Why? I was guilty of the crime of having born white. This is a grave, serious crime for which you must pay. Having European ancestry is similar to a scarlet letter, except it's my face. As a white male, there is however one, slightly elevated social perch available. It may potentially be yours if you accept your privilege and personal responsibility for the world’s atrocities, inequalities, violence, rapes, wealth gaps, gender pay gaps, genocides, power hierarchies, etc. Once you accept this guilt, it is your duty to wield that white privilege to scorn all other whites that haven't yet voluntarily dehumanized themselves.

They should make Benjamin the new Dean. I would then be happy to send my kids there. Otherwise, I will continue to hold Evergreen in the contempt it so richly deserves

I may be missing something or in too literal minded because I can't stop thinking those poor trees.

Thank you for posting this video. I'm positive it will inspire more human beings than it does embolden the undeserving.

A student from EVERGREEN wants all the trees cut down. If there were such a thing as an irony meter, it would have exploded.