Episode 14 (How a totem becomes a blind spot): kzfaq.info/get/bejne/na5dfZWcmqfSpoE.html Here's the missing subs for the girl at 5:14: "No yeah that’s why it totally made sense. And then all the people who walked in later were like “Why are you so angry?” But I dunno I’d be pretty angry if that was my experience and someone had the audacity to talk to me like that. I dunno, so…" And thanks for indulging me while I concentrate on this-to the exclusion of other content. I've mapped out The Complete Evergreen series to 24 episodes, which means we're over half way through! Next up: Naima Lowe in her own words (and images); then in Episode 14 the students work out their grievances on the Bridges Administration-and the faculty join in! If you're finding this work worth your time, consider buying the cats a can of food via this handy PayPal link: www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce

"We couldn't raise our students' grades, so we lowered our standards!" --STAR Academy

“I see teaching as a political act.” - Probably the most honest and deplorably predatory and narcissistic comment made by an ‘educator’ in this series...

Anyone else as creeped out as me when they refer to human beings as "bodies"?

Not going to lie: speaking as a former teacher and tutor, that STAR Academy clip made me want to start crying.

What creeps me out the most is the change of language.. they are no longer "White people" they are "White Bodied" or they are no longer "Men" they are "Male bodied" . Extremely strange and makes me cringe.

12:42 George saying, "Jamil, I need to pee," is the absolute highlight of this entire documentary series.

The lack of self-awareness is probably the most disturbing aspect. They actually filmed and uploaded most of this footage thinking it would make them look good. Are people that far-gone even capable of reversing this level of delusion? Usually, once someone goes "all-in" with an ideology to the point of kidnapping people it is almost impossible for them to admit they were wrong because to do so would be so detrimental to their ego, their psyche could not survive. Thus, cognitive dissonance takes over and they continue on their delusional garden path, forever.

"I don't know if you identify as white"... The labyrinth of awful epistemology behind that statement, before you even get started on the ideology, leads right down to hell.

Students: you need to ensure our safety! Also students: how dare you try to stop our dance party on a structurally-unsound balcony!

If you could harness cringe and convert it to electricity, you could power Hong Kong with the content in these videos.

Can you imagine being spoken to like that and just standing there silent?

17:18 “it’s your job to educate us.” Oh how they have failed.

Do you think George Bridges walks through the empty Evergreen campus and says to himself "I didn't do anything wrong."

The level of intelligence is outrageously low. People don't even know the words they are using.

Indoctrination? Brain washing? I went to my high school during the Vietnam War. The language here alone would get your expelled in 1964. 70yo and sorry my taxes have gone this way.

7:48 a great example of circular logic: "y'all can leave, no harm will be done to you, but if you leave that means that you don't care for black and brown students, so don't leave under any circumstances." Stay: Get accused of racism. Leave: Be confirmed as a racist. Nice.

I'm convinced this whole episode will become a classic in social psychology. Much like the Stanford prison experiments or Stanley Milgram's work. Can somebody write this up and submit it for review?

-Keeping people from leaving -Have a list of demands -Don't want the police around -Handing out food and water to the people being kept Boy, sure sounds alot like a hostage situation to me.

Episode 13 and I still don't know what their demands are.

Why do they have to break everyone down and depersonify people by referring to themselves and others as 'bodies'? It's creepy. A bunch of young adults who want to be babied and have their hands held by people who are paid to educate and teach them. It's not their job to be their mommies and daddies. And is it a requirement for acceptance to Evergreen to incessantly use the phrase 'y'all'? Ugh.

16:00 Naima Lowe: "i don't come to faculty meetings anymore because of all of your racism" ... but this was a faculty meeting WITH cake ... I guess that made the racism a little bit more bearable.

Painful to watch, but necessary.

Jamil: “I can’t speak for everyone here” *proceeds to give orders, organize, and be a figurehead of the protest constantly*

Jamil sounds like he is holding a hostage/kidnapping. Like on a serious level.

When you go o college/university you do not “pay” for CREDITS. You pay for access to the coursework and knowledge of the teachers/professors. The credits have to be EARNED by utilizing the knowledge you paid for access to. SMH 🤦‍♀️

Watching this makes me so upset. The way this was handled by administration was a joke. The educators that stood up and defended the students should be fired for incompetence.

The inmates are running the asylum!!

In watching this, one of the things that strikes me continually, a theme that runs through this entire series (and all expressions of Intersectionality I have yet to come across), is the utter ABSOLUTISM in all their ways of understanding the world (which is ironically called “black and white thinking.” A further irony: their ideology would agree there exists Black thinking and White thinking.) In this instance: “ . . . y’all (faculty/staff) can leave (this protest). But by leaving it’s showing that you don’t care about the black and brown lives here. And that’s harmful to the environment here.” (One woman this is being explained to needs to get home to take care of her family, which obviously shows in no uncertain terms she doesn’t care about black and brown people.) This exemplifies perhaps THE core principle underlying this ideology, which is the moral extortion and moral enslavement of “If you don’t agree absolutely with my absolutistic interpretation and do absolutely as I say, then you are absolutely UNCARING (= core moral complaint) and thus absolutely immoral, and this gives me the absolute moral right to absolutely shut you down.” All of their statements, so far as I can see, are governed by this “principle.” The thing that makes this ideology insidious is that if you do care that someone is suffering or potentially maltreated, it’s so easy, at least momentarily/temporarily, to get drawn in with your concern, but then duped and roped in by the moral manipulation, quasi-erudition, and obfuscation of their ideological viewpoint and languaging.

The clip of Jamil saying that under no circumstances may the faculty leave the hostage room and then walking in and telling George he's attempting to negotiate on the faculty's behalf for them to be able to leave, and in the meantime he's arranged food and water, is one of the most devastatingly horrifying demonstrations of the depravity of human nature I have ever seen. The dehumanization and manipulation is palpable, it's reminiscent of the ability of camp guards being able to tell the Jews that they're simply going for a shower and delousing. I understand Jamil is a student, but I believe it is a fair extrapolation of behaviour considering that he set up a system designed for that kind of dehumanization as well as was the leader of violence in the situation.

In for my daily dose of crazy. Love these videos, good sir.

This is the first one I had to stop and take a break from.

4 year old activists???!!!

...sooooo let me get this straight... This whole thing started with the Bret Weinstein emails, but then morphed into being about wanting discipline against students dropped who acted like crazy babies by interrupting a private meeting? And now it's also about the campus police?!? This whole thing is literally nuts to me! Loving (yet also horrified) this series. Thanks Benjamin for putting this together!

"if you do choose to leave no harm will be done to you" veiled threat from a student to a teacher, I didn't realize how out of control the situation was

I've watched all of the Boyce videos, few by other people. As I watch this it's gut wrenching to hear black people, white people, POC, etc... It makes me sad, I never saw race before, I was taught by my parents, teachers that we were all equal. The only time I noticed separation was lining up for school bus home, shortest to tallest.

more backbones in a school of jellyfish than in the evergreen faculty

I am once again filled with a sense of dread towards the future, and given hope because people can still put out videos and write comments.

2:45 what happens if one of these undisciplined children starts a fire? 6:09 Structural limit? "Faculty has deemed this area unsafe, and closed it to the public" - anyone ignoring that and gets hurt, its their own fault. 12:25 "demands" = conversation done. 18:04 We paid to be here, give us "A"s.

Jamil’s way of giving orders is interesting: ”Y’all need to do this and that. Is that clear? Now spread the word” and he just walks off. He has leadership skills, that is why he always appears at the helm, or close to it in these videos. Many other kids yell, he speaks calmy most of the time. He also has a natural authority which is impressive, and dangerous. I think he is the prime mover during the ”civil unrest” portion of all this. He made it potentially dangerous, it seems. I wonder if the police could have charged him with something - if Bridges hadn’t asked them to stand down. I cringe at these videos like you all do, but some persons stand out. This is fascinating stuff.

I’ve been painfully watching this whole thing for all 13 episodes and I still have no clue what these students want. They say “meet our demands” but still no clue what those demands are.

"What kind of University do you want. One that is focus on truth through debate, or one that changes the world." Wow. I don't see those being mutually exclusive. Both of those are important!

Several years later now, would be nice to see an update of "Where are they now?" on all these leaders like Jamil. I got a feeling their entire lives are a circus.

Was their any repercussions at all? They basically kidnapped the staff and deans, right? That's a felony, lol.

Imagines Goerge Bridges sitting back gloating: "Fly my beauties, Fly!"

There's something particularly comical about Jamil saying that the safety of AR and Lawrence is paramount, while you can see Lawrence in the background casually eating with a vapid expression on their face.

I find their assurances like "no harm will be done to you" rather terrifying. It's like unspoken threat "We reserve right to escalate to violence, if you displease us in any way". WTF

Yuri Bezmanov warned us about this in 1983...

I'm preparing to return to college to get a Meteorology degree, but watching this is making me afraid to go onto a college campus.

How in the hell did they get away with unlawfully imprisoning people, and rioting? Isn't that kidnapping?

Again I will say thank you Benjamin. After watching this series I have developed much more empathy for the students and a seething hatred for certain members of the faculty.

“Uncomfortability” is a word that triggers me. Loving the series.

At 09:02, Jamil specifically orders the "allies" to patrol the doors and windows to prevent those in the room from leaving. He orders them to "make sure that's there's no way to get out or for them to leave." At 12:04, Jamil goes into the room and tells the people that the "blockade" order had nothing to do with him or his group, and that it was "bullsh*t" and some "anarchist somethin-somethin". The more of Jamil I see, the more I see that he understands Alinsky very, very well. The rules for radicals aren't the same as the rules for everyone else.

18:15 "You continually take our credit away even though we paid for it.'' Doesn't the kid understand that you pay for the opportunity to earn the credit. You aren't just given it because you paid for it. Otherwise college would be a whole lot easier.

"Do you identify as white? Damn, this would be a lot easier if we just made y'all wear armbands." - some crazy activist I'm sure

Could have really used some cat meditations after that.

So, let me get this straight: Jamil being asked to answer questions - where he's free to leave at anytime -after threatening a student, is considered being "detained"... But forcibly not allowing staff to leave a room - not even to pee - isn't considered kidnapping or unlawful detainment? Ok, then😕

I’m glad that I’ve made myself watch all of these at once because this is the first episode I’ve watching where my heart isn’t racing and I’m able to watch with a bit of detached awe.

Some of the faculty have Stockholm syndrome.

12:55 No wait, it's Carmichael saying "Maybe you should have thought of that earlier" that is the true highlight of this entire documentary series. Well said, man.

"Children should have a leading role in their education, deciding what they learn" I understand the allure of this idea. As a child, I was very stubborn, only learning what I wanted to learn when I wanted to learn it. This made my life more difficult in the long run, and I regret living that way. These kids will, too. If that were all these people were promoting, I would merely advise against it. Considering the brainwashing they're actually engaging in (I thought the kids could decide what to learn?), I advise burning the place to the ground and flogging the zealots in the public square...

And on the 8th day, God created cringe, and called it Evergreen State, and it was good

I still can't believe that incompetent fool Naima Lowe or Love has a job at ANY university!!! The sad part is that these students were used psychologically and intellectually by their professors. Their faces are everywhere, Naima has a job, what about those students who are throwing temper tantrums and fits. What self respecting business would hire them after seeing this?? Keep up the good work Benjamin, put everyone on blast with this fiasco.

The fact that the lady in pink PJs holding a dog is a teacher at this college, tells me everything I need to know about the college. haha

Holding people and preventing them from leaving is a good way to really get someone seriously hurt! WOW!

I'm starting to really see the depth of Heather Heying's reference to 'bat shit crazy'... and it is scary as hell... This series is a gold mine, but veeery heavy in one sitting! Thank you Benjamin Boyce

For the love of God does that poor dog ever get a day off

Benjamin- thanks for putting the clip of Jonathan Haidt at the end. I have a lot more understanding of the whole thing now.

I didn't know that success could be guaranteed.

"Even at the age of 4, they can become activists." -- future Evergreen students

I never want to hear the word 'y'all' again.

Some excerpts from “The Coddling of the American Mind” would be apt

In 1998 I wrote a college paper about how affirmative action was lowering the standards instead of raising the school requirements before college and then I am watching this entire series and college kids can’t even read “equity” in a speech but want it. Holy cow.

They make it sound like they just got back from 2 tours of Nam.

This video needs a bell and a counter for every time someone says "Y'all".

You did such an amazing job on this. I can’t believe this doesn’t have more views, this deserves a an award!

The three deans of my college were great professors and great teachers, and were so helpful to me as I finished up my graduate program in school. I have so much respect for them, I can’t imagine treating them the way these deans are being treated, and talking to them this way. Unbelievable. 😐 1:52 Who would want to go to school here or teach here? For these students who are fighting for all this- none of them seem to be decent people. Not a one of them. There’s no humility, grace, or caring shown by any of them- there’s nothing winsome about them. ☹️ They’re bullies who push people around to get their way.

That's literally false imprisonment and a felony

Intersectionality is incompatible with education. Since intersectionality inverts the normal hierarchy, the teachers have to abdicate authority to students. The teachers, who have relevant knowledge and experience, must be "taught" by the students who have neither. It's unsustainable.

'If you want to leave, go ahead, but you should not under any circumstances leave'

As painful as this whole story has been, I can't get away from the fact that the students can't even speak English that well. I am not referring to the non-native English speakers who may be involved, but those who were clearly raised in America should be able to use the 'big' words more effectively, at this age. None of the students seemed to have a firm grasp on their vocabulary at all. Their ideas are simple and childish, but I do get the underlying message: we are frustrated from feeling like we are being marginalised and how I feel I am bei g treated is more important than how I am being treated. But, Jesus, this is done badly.

“We’ve been sitting on our asses for forty years” We know you have, Naima. Truest thing you’ve said.

I would have busted out some music and encouraged the kids to dance on the balcony.

Amazing video. Really first rate. Really great use of Jonathan Haidt at the end to let us all know exactly where you stand

7:48 is one of the most twisted moments

12:28 Clearly a hostage situation and he is the ringleader, and Bridges gave the stand down orders to make it possible to be held hostage. The word insanity is not even close.

This is crazy to me. George should be fired. I wouldn't want my child to go there!!!

I'd like to thank Niami Lowe for not eating it's dog.

Ah, i was wondering when my next dose of pure cancer was coming. Thanks Benjamin, you're doing the lords work.

When did it become ok to make others hostages

I was a college freshman in 1968 when I wrote the script for a puppet play satirizing racism for the Washington State University chapter of the SDS, Students for a Democratic Society. Dr. King's assassination was still a painful wound. Watching these videos, I am stunned, angered, and depressed to see his legacy being desecrated.

That was incredibly painful to watch. I can only imagine having to edit it all. Good on you man.

As disturbing as Evergreen is, it is exponenetially worse when young children are indoctrinated in the classroom (though Evergreen is an example of that coming home to roost for sure). I think you are definitely onto a solid strand when you contextualize these videos. Great work as always. Perhaps you could more deeply explore the other manifestations of this ideology in future videos, even drawing some causal connections to Evergreen. You have a bewildering talent for doing so!

So this is the 13th episode where I havent heard a single concrete grievance besides "the faculty does not support us and is racist" I still dont know what they are whining about

Anyone else experiencing an anxious feeling (as if watching "minutes from disaster") that you avoid watching it until you clear your mind?

Love your references Benjamin, Bertrand Russel, Jonathan Haidt, ... John McWhorther has some insightful thoughts about this topic as well.

After a few years of seeing this go down and be wrapped up, I think I ultimately feel pity for these young adults. They have been lied to and indoctrinated to the point that they would need extensive de-programming just to be a functional human. The abuse they doled out is an end result of the BS ideology they were fed.

7:40 OMG, call in Batman! I've spotted the Penguin!

This episode really dialled it up! Well done to the admissions officer near the start though.

"I don't want to offend anyone by walking out"