The young woman at the end of episode 1 said the "carnival atmosphere" of the crowd, after confronting Weinstein, was eerie. If she spent some time observing chimpanzee groups in the wild and how they behave after prevailing in a confrontation, she'd know that it's not strange but typical. Everything on display here is basic evo-psych group dynamics. Weinstein, as a professor in the field, should have realized that all the reasoning in the world, all the appeals to sanity and rational dialectic, were for nothing. The mob had crossed a boundary and entered a mode of pure, tribalistic emotion where reason does not exist. Every attempt he made to reach them--in fact, every time he *almost* had some of them considering reconsidering--they would start chanting "hey hey ho ho" as a method of bringing those people back into compliance with the group. The group *cannot* permit the possibility that Weinstein is NOT a racist, can't afford for him to be anything but a righteous target--they're high on their collective power and if the way they are using that collective power is at all justified, the entire thing depends on him being a bad person. If they entertain the notion that he's not a racist, they must consider the possibility that their behavior is NOT justified, and then they are forced to confront the possibility that they are engaging in bullying, abuse and inexcusable levels of aggression and intimidation against an innocent person. The majority of the people forming the mob desperately want to see themselves as against the very behavior and attitudes they themselves are engaging in. Once they crossed the boundary from a heated disagreement (acceptable) to the smearing and physical intimidation of dissenters or neutral parties (unacceptable), they were committed NOT necessarily to their tactics, but to believing their tactics are justified. The physical and verbal escalation of that very behavior, particularly when Weinstein was beginning to get through to some of them, was done in the service of preserving that illusion of justification. It's all in the service of avoiding having to ask themselves, "Hans???... Are we the baddies?"

The cringe is killing me. It's like a tour of a mental asylum.

Those educators publicly self flagellating was one of the most despicable things I've ever seen in my life.

Students: Why were the cops trying to mace us? Faculty: Who did they try to mace? Students: It’s not whether they actually tried to mace us or not, but that they brought MACE. I am internally screaming

This is a cult. There's no other way to describe it.

Wow that's a lot of racist young people

10:49 At a freshman orientation, she says that students' experiences are "their own truth" which should never be discounted. Right from the get-go, students are told that how they understand past experiences is the truth and that they shouldn't allow their understanding to be challenged. THIS IS THE PROBLEM!

I'd like to see a "Where are they now" at some point to find out if any of these kids realized they're insane.

The Irony of that mob calling others racist.

The one thing that sticks out when (re)watching this is how vague and non-specific it all is. No specific complaints, no specific wishes, certainly no ideas for future improvements. Just emotion and "listen to me speak/whine/scream". It is like someone misstook "communication" for "performance".

1965: Vivian Malone graduates from the University of Alabama with a Bachelor Degree after facing years of verbal abuse and threats of violence from other students, faculty and the community at large. 2017: Evergreen State College student states "It's really hard to do homework when I'm stressing about like racism and anti-blackness in classrooms and shit".

My sincere hope is that ten years from now, these young people will look back on this episode with utter shame for their behavior.

"It's really hard to do homework when I'm stressed about racism and anti-blackness in classrooms and shit" Quote of the year.

I appreciate you making this documentary, however, it is infuriating to watch

It’s like watching a reverse AA meeting where everyone is getting more f**ked up as it progresses.

Really well handled by the campus police, giving no grounds whatsoever through that phone call.. Imagine telling yourself you're being oppressed, yet expect to be able to demand the chief to rush to your position for no other reason than you told them to..

We're lucky these geniuses filmed themselves the whole time they were busy taking hostages on Evergreen Campus.

Every time I call the Chicago police, I demand that the Chief immediately respond to the scene.

The interesting part of this, and the biggest disconnect to me was how the students were apparently so concerned about their "safety". Like they were trying to equate their environment to a war zone. These students probably couldn't have been in a more safer, coddling environment.

Love how the Physicist says: Scientists often don't worry about social justice because science is "about the truth". He says it, not sarcastically, but as a caricature of the justice warriors.

Hearing the staff confess their sins was really disrurbing. It's like a cult!

Honestly, these students appear to have developmental issues. They don't appear to have developed a sense of a world outside of their own perspective (which typically takes place when a person is a toddler), leading them to uncontrollably emote when other people have preferences that disagree with theirs.

I mean... you can literally hear the students giggling that the teachers are taking them seriously. Have any of these teachers ever pushed back against a student, ever?

"The students appear to be dispersing and are heading toward the Red Square." How appropriate.

A heart breaking, modern retelling of "Lord of the Flies". I hope their parents aren't counting on these children to care about them in their old age. Forgive me for hoping none of these people have children of their own. I can't imagine how they would turn out. Addendum... 3 years. My, how time has flown. It feels like a decade. I'm grateful that people are still learning about this moment in history. It gives me hope that sanity hasn't totally deserted the world. 4/5/23

Personal point of privilege. Could these protesters stop screaming and banging and on things?

*....Another FINE example of: "The Tolerant & Inclusive "Left," Ladies and Gentlemen"*

“It’s not that they maced us. It’s that they brought mace.” What?

Truth vs reality? I thought reality was the truth. These folks are living on another planet.

Oh those poor oppressed students! So oppressed. This is what serfdom, slavery, and segregation must have been like. I mean, as that brave young black lady explained, some of her emails are ignored. How does anyone justify such blatant racism? There is so much insanity crammed into these videos that it’s difficult to keep up.

“Referring to a woman as ‘her’ and they get no consequences” - dear god

actually makes me very happy to read that this college has seen dwindling student enrollment and revenues every year since this.

13:59 The poor girl hurt herself thinking, probably the first time she has ever done that (think that is). She was about to say make the space more inclusive but then it hit her, damn, we are doing the exact opposite. I don't know how you did it B. Boyce, that's too much for me. The poison of Intersectionality is getting to the engineering disciplines (it has already taken down Computer Science) but it isn't full force just yet. I'm glad I graduate in December.

No commentary, no narration, it's all presented in their own words ... and it's terrifying.

Benjamim, you and all the students and staff that did not align with mob thinking and made an effort to keep the doors of dialogue open, deserve our respect and make the future look less bleak. May you always find bridges and good conversations.

This gets painful real fast. My god I’ve never been happier I didn’t attend college... This is an unbelievable display... I would never have known aside from this series. Literally painful 😣

12:35 "...Some of us may also identify as unicorns" (crowd laughs) Fascinating, by todays SJW standards that crowd would be considered bigoted, sexist and transphobic.

Every other word spoken was about someone's skin color. We should instead focus on content of character and merit of ideas.

"... heading toward the red square." I'll say.

The colleges have brought this upon themselves. They hired the lecturers who taught this to the students.

Their whiny voices makes hearing their ideology even worse.

"and I am fat" . She literally wants her own gravitational force known with blunt observation.

The first thing I learned in the military was that the world does not revolve around me and if I wanted respect then I was going to have to earn it. Also all of my black battle buddies that I depended on as they did me also learned that very same thing. Now we are all the best of friends and laugh at shit like this.

Brett is a hero. These kids are like something out of Lord of the Flies

Homework is HARD when you are feeling the feels.

It reminds me of when I was a child and I would accuse my parents of not caring about me because I couldn't get some stupid shit that I wanted that I did not need.

this documentary is an impressive achievement, bravo!

When I watched this, I wanted to be there simply to drag Weinstein out of that hell hole and get him to safety. Insanity shown gave me literal second-hand anxiety.

Footage like this really forces me to restrain my natural hillbilly tendencies.

"History could pivot" And it will, and the future will not smile kindly on them.

You have to love the hilarious moment @2:56 After theyve spent their afternoon screaming at the faculty, someone makes a point they agree with and they start snapping (utilized because its less disruptive than clapping) after which they go back to the screaming.

This new Lord of the Flies adaptation looks lit.

Sadly i grew up in time when immutable characteristics were widely accepted and people were treated as equals regardless of their differences. How naive we were back then.

As a guy who grew up in the Mississippi Delta (I lead off with this on many videos. Sorry if this sounds familiar.), I saw the products of countless years of true, bonafide oppression. And it was grotesque. But these kids are going in the wrong direction, and in a big way. It feels far less about equality and far more about an attempt to steal power. For, if power is how one sees all dynamics, then it becomes less about being on equal ground and more about claiming power over others. They are going the way some of my white ancestors did so very many generations ago. Ironic and totally not helping.

I still can't believe that George Bridges is still in charge after he created this situation, or that none of the ring leaders were expelled.

This is almost impossible to watch. Don't get me wrong, it's hugely important, but fucking hell it's a hard watch

Lots of new angles and extended scenes in this Director's Cut, nice!

It should have never come even close to that far. These students were so desperately in need of discipline. They have no idea what they are doing. They don't have the maturity to know anything. They are just unruly children. The scenes we are seeing must have been the result of bad judgement by staff and administration going back a long ways. These children should never have been allowed to evolve into the monsters they became. Staff and administration failed them by not setting limits and rules and enforcing discipline.

I can't imagine shit like this ever happening in germany (maybe in Berlin or Hamburg) - the sheer disrespect towards the professors. You'd be expelled, rightly so.

Everyone disrupting the normal operation of the school should have been charged and expelled. One warning then arrest.

Infuriating when one of them says something idiotic, and the crowd breaks out in cheers like trained seals.

I wish that there was a deprogramming-demobbing recovery program for those kids. Content would include having each of them be the focus of a staged mobbing and then spending several months in an economically depressed country helping a suffering community.

Great job Benjamin! You did a fantastic job on this piece! Bravo sir!

This multi-part documentary is the perfect illustration of Progressive Left Gone Wrong.

I’m Female I’m straight I’m cis Black Child of immigrants Educated Married Have kids Conservative Own a home Can breathe air through my nose Non vegan 20X40 vision No tickets or accidents Love long walks on the beach How many privilege points do I get?

That’s insane...they all need to get expelled. Very few things turn my stomach like the “privilege listing” video... 🤮

These are amazing! Good work.

Bravo sir. Everything explained clearly. I'd wanted to see the full thing for ages, but I didn't know where to begin. I couldn't have found a better series. Hung with there own words. Perfect

Wow Benjamin, this represents a great deal of thoughtfulness and hard work. Well done!

They have no idea what they want, but they know they are morally superior so everything they say is the last word.

It's like I'm watching a episode of The Twilight Zone

This is a GREAT documentary.

4:45 What did they call her? "The roach"? She's an Evergreen grad herself, and was always trying to treat people with respect.

🤣 The proverbial chickens of Progressivism come home to roost. Consequences gamed out pretty accurately and repeatedly for more than a century.

"Is there any black folks who need water right now?" 05:21🤣

This brings shivers down my spine because this is not the end of it

YOU. REAP. WHAT. YOU. SOW! THE TEACHERS AGREE WITH THE STUDENTS, IT DID NOT HAPPEN IN A VACUUM.

*sighs* Right now, I'm holding in my hands a book titled "The Case Against Free Speech" by P.E. Moskowitz. In a nutshell, it's an argument in favor of redefining the limits of free speech, given that it is (allegedly) a tool used by the Right to "push their agenda" and (verbatim on the inside front flap) "free speech is impossible in an unequal society where a few corporations and the ultra-wealthy bankroll political movements, millions of voters are disenfranchised, and our government routinely silences critics of racism and capitalism." Inside the book is a chapter on Evergreen. It's not very long and it glosses over much, but it starts by framing Evergreen against a backdrop of white supremacy incidents in Washington (Identity Evropa pamphlets, the Patriot Prayer rally). Comments from Naima Lowe are sprinkled throughout the chapter, as well as some anonymous students, but none from Weinstein, Stacy Brown, or others actually targeted by the protesters. It also pins blame on Weinstein for appearing on Tucker Carlson, thereby empowering conservative and far-right commentators to inflate the incident. It ends by implying that more harm was done to Evergreen, Naima and the student protesters than to Bret et al. He walked away with $500,000 after all, right? I only bring this up, Benjamin, because if it wasn't for your efforts, how many of us would know the true complexity of this incident and some of the frankly frightening behaviors/beliefs exhibited by these folks who truly believe that this so-called equity ideology is the only way to end racism. If you didn't hold the flaming receipts, the assertions of folks like Moskowitz (Evergreen is just another example of white right-wingers exercising their privileged power) would be harder to refute. It's hard enough now, when genuine incidents of white supremacy/hate crimes get rolled together with alleged incidents of racism like Evergreen and Oberlin. The thing I personally find most disturbing about Lowe & co. and the author of this book is that they never seem to question the need for violence and fear in order to bring about their desired changes. They seem to be very comfortable with the prospect. And we can't let people so enamored with their perceptions of injustice and how to solve it get away without taking a good long look into the darker recesses of their minds and the ugly outcomes of their actions. If they're so convinced that they are "on the right side of history," why do the tactics used and the warped thinking remind me so much of all those movements in history that have landed their proponents squarely in the wrong side?

What springs to mind watching this is that the administrators were encouraging this behavior by having the police stand down, entertaining the mob with their responses, getting a room for them, the whole bit. He and his fellow administrators behaved like rather helpless hostages, but as has been discussed, Bridges was using the mob as his opportunity to shape Evergreen to his desires.

"Are there any black folks in here that need water?" made me giggle

The chickens came home to roost. When there is no leadership & rules, chaos reigns.

These videos are so hard to watch. The illogical, circular logic is so nonsensical it is maddening.

There is something deeply troubling about all this and what it says about our society at large. How this incident grew from these first few videos to eventually being on the national stage is mind blowing. 30 years ago, hell even 15 years ago, nobody would have lost any sleep over this and the adults would have calmed the children down. How justified these kids feel with this insanity. I'm glad you put these videos together. This whole thing somehow becomes even more ridiculous when you can be in the room while it happens.

I love the confusion in the second caller's voice when he asks for the police chief and is just asked why? Like he never considered that they wouldn't immediately do what he said. Kinda sums up their mentality

"I use she and her pronouns..." NO, you stipulate what pronouns OTHER PEOPLE should use.

Those bratty students were horrendous!

It is great to see that all of this is all documented ... for prospective parents and students.

I feel like if I watch more than two chapters today I'll have to break something.

Wow... The use of 'cis' used as if totally normal and valid. Just a bunch of pretentious entitled students.

I'm sorry. I can't continue watching these protests. It's grating, and their standpoint is insane.

Omg, this is the one that gets intense ... it's jarring! Great edits--it's uncomfortable, like you're thrust into the middle of it all. I'd get Melissa to watch but... she does true crime docs but not drama this intense... & I can't get her to watch war movies, either. They make her nervous. And this is like a war movie.

Lmfaooo did I just here “does any black person need water right now?”

The indoctrination of fragility over autonomy and responsibility.

Good lord, this whole thing is... well, I hate to go there, but it's disgusting. And the fact that the staff lets these things occur, AND even encourages it, and that clip with the teachers is absolutely horrible. No one should be made to do that for their job. I never watched these things and I'm really kind of glad that I haven't. This makes me physically angry. These students and I suppose people in general are so utterly out of touch, it blows my mind to pieces.

They have a quad called red square! That school is litterelly a meme.

It's like they are obsessed with a new toy and apply it to everything

God, I had almost forgotten how infuriating this was.

TL;DR: A former student of Brett Weinstein decompresses pent up feelings about the trauma of the protests. Thanks for posting these, Benjamin. I'm a former student of Brett and his wife, Heather. I traveled with them through Ecuador, and having left their tutelage, I now consider them as something resembling dear friends. At the time that the protests broke out, I was a junior at Evergreen. It was really hard to watch the campus devolve into madness at that time. It's still hard to watch. I feel my stomach twisting into knots and I remember the fear and isolation I felt when all of this was happening. I keep coming back to your videos, despite the pain they cause me, because I think it's important that people are able to see what happened there, and I want to be sure that the story is correctly told. You've done a really good job documenting and compiling the story of the Evergreen protests. You've done a great job. As a personal note, looking back on the events: Before the meeting in the fourth floor of the library, the day after the initial protest, the "meeting" for which Brett was in attendance (I was as well, but my part in the events was small and insignificant), I urged my classmates to go into the "meeting" with gentleness and compassion, and with the mission of understanding, not judging. Apparently, my words were too harsh for a large portion of my classmates, as several of them stopped speaking to me after that. Still, I urge the same now. These students were young and stupid, as was I. I still am. There are some forms of stupidity for which experience is the only cure. Hopefully, some of those students will see the harm they caused, and learn to be a little less reactive, less volatile. To the audience of this and similar stories: Remember that all of this trouble started because a group of people decided that they knew the character of Brett Weinstein without ever having spoken to him. Think on that before you decide you know the students who fell victim to group-think. They were young. They still are. They have a lot of time left to learn.

That lisp with "raythiss", my sides weren't ready holy shit

11:47 damnn you can see Tom his fear of saying something wrong