This is a re-upload. Sorry for the confusion. Patch notes: Fixed frame rate, Added audio, Fixed some typos.

22 episodes in and I still have no idea why they feel unsafe or what the demands are...

“I don’t want to stay here. This is really weird." I feel so sorry for that girl. That was one of the few moments of truth in the whole sequence. She's caught in a trap and is too honest to realise how the professor and other students are hounding her.

This is the result of coddling those with narcissistic and histrionic personality disorders.

“I don’t want to stay here. This is really weird.” Yup.

So a teaching assistant can speak to students like this, storming out in anger, making threats about breaking a table and getting aggressive on a personal level? Meanwhile, Lindsay Shepherd shows two video clips from a News channel...

Now I understand why they say "black or brown bodies." They don't believe in the individual. Creepy.

Professor: "It's not about me." Proceeds to talk about his history of oppression, how many places he's lived, how he reacts to racism on campus, his responsibilities to the class, his perceived lack of support from admin, his chronic disease and how hard that is for him, his victimhood in the protest environment...

Fucking hell. My heart breaks for Sissy in that moment. She must have felt like she was in a fucking mental ward. This is disturbing in a way that I wasn't really ready for, dude.

You know, I had a tough period in my life when I went into a rehab for drugs and alcohol. The place was full of junkies and drunks; people had the DTs and some junkies were kicking. We had thieves, prostitutes and "dual-diagnosis" (addiction plus serious mental illness) folks who were on the run, folks who had just ruined their lives. And yet, our meetings were more sensible and less self-piteous than this. It's embarrassing.

When you're only a few episodes away from finishing this 24 episode doc and thought there is no way in hell it could get any weirder, Ben throws this in your face.

This video plays like a horror movie of the "found footage" variety. Spooky as hell.

i feel sick. all the emotional blackmailing, bullying, mockery makes me sick. i hope only evergreen is like this

"three times you interrupted her speaking while you were talking" wut

That lil freak guy screaming is awesome

I know it’s trivial, but... The amount of F-bombs being dropped in class by the students and the professor (?!) is off-putting. And I’m not crying for a safe space. I just thought a place of higher education would adhere to more proper speech. It just seems lazy and uncouth. They almost sound as bad as the guys on construction sites I used to work on.

They need mental health help. When someone is believing that white silence is killing them while they're yelling really makes me wonder how to tell the difference between the voice of an oppressed person and that of a spoiled brat.

I've watched this entire series during a few days time. To say intersectionality is a bizarre ideology is the understatement of the century! There's no way our societies will thrive if we let this idea grow, and your documentary is grim proof of that. Thank you for your meticulous, laborous effort in documenting this all. I look forward to the next part, as well as your other videos.

What was that scream?! This is finally turning into a comedy lol

How could you sit through this? My eyes would have rolled out of my head.

I still have no idea what danger these kids are facing on campus. Ive heard the 911 call made by the guy saying he's gonna shoot everyone. Ive heard the claim's of passing vehicles yelling racist shit. But literally what is the threat level? Are people being assaulted and accosted?!?! Ive checked the Oly PD blotter and the Thurston County sheriffs blotter... Im not seeing where these kids are being attacked. Someone please enlighten me? *Please just send me links to a news report or a police report? Something to justify the insane banter I'm listening to now.

Benjamin, I seriously don't know how you made it out of that place with your sanity intact! I made it as far as 24:00 and I couldn't continue listening...especially to that Alexa chick. I'm black and I think I would have stood up and told them that they are all out of their minds and left that class for good... I've never had a problem cutting my losses and hightailing it out of a situation as toxic as this one is.

Insane amount of swearing.

2017: I hoped these kids would grow out of this rhetoric while I laughed 2020: I hope the country doesn't grow into this rhetoric, and I'm not laughing anymore

This is difficult to watch. The fact that students were subjected to that and that faculty and administrators facilitated it is appalling.

Just burned through this whole series in the last day and a half. Amazimg stuff, like looking in on a freaky alternate reality, really jaw dropping stuff. Thanks for all your hard work in putting this together.

This Melissa-person... haven't we all met someone like her? And if unlucky, someone like her with a little bit of power. Unpleasant experience. Very bewildering if you are not used to narcissists. Luckily she doesn't seem to be very bright (or maybe just severely disadvantaged when it comes to basic knowledge and reasoning skills?). People like her but with intelligence are the really dangerous ones, the ones who ruin lives and organisations.

They don’t want conversation they want to be worshipped and obeyed.

Silence would always be the safest option in this situation. Yes, you will get criticized for it. But if you say anything, anything at all, you will get criticized even more.

17:03 "Pigs is a gender neutral term for cop." I think this was intended as a joke, but nobody laughed.

"whites most silent environment I've ever lived in"... Maybe it's because your silencing those white voices...Sissy never actually got to say her point only said that she was feeling threatened and silenced and then she was threatened and silenced for saying that.

“You need to stfu!” “Ok” “Actually, your silence is attacking me personally “ “Er, but....” “HEY!! I thought I just told you to STFU!!!”

I could hide a mic in a psych ward and capture a more coherent, rational and persuasive group discussion than what I just heard in this astonishing and terrifying video!

"this is the whitest, most silent environment I've ever lived in". Tyranny creates that silence.

What was this class? It sounds like an intervention/therapy session? And Wolach should not be permitted to teach anything. He is so enjoying his position of authority to facilitate the eviscerate one student.

I binge watched this series over the last couple of days and I’m crying like an idiot at his speech at the end. It’s so true.

sometimes I get that primal little voice in the back of my head that tells me: "these people fucking hate you" "these people want to kill you" I don't really know what it is, but the way these kinds of people talk just brings about that fight or flight response for some reason.

This is by far the most horrifying episode in the series. I'm writing a fiction piece about struggle sessions right now and hearing Sissy crying about how weird it the whole experience felt was like hearing my main character in real life... it's a horror story. Just listening to this was surreal. I couldn't imagine having been there.

They're developing a final solution to the white people question. Sissy has to keep quiet, so they can concentrate.

This was a writing class? Tuition well spent.

So, do they do any actual school work at this school, or just talk about feelings in a safe space?

It was scary like an argument in a mental ward. You are very privileged that you still have your mental integrity. Do they graduate their students with some degree of mental disorder?

How did students like Sissy not turn around and sue the college? Were any lawsuits brought?

28:15 "The weight that you put on people is akin to guilt. There's no redemption in this, there's no salvation in this system. There's no forgiveness in this system."

Man...just finished the whole thing. It was a grind at times but so fascinating. This is a slightly terrifying and incredible era we are watching unfold.

LMAO even the cats against them. It is probably a white supremacist too.

I knew what happened at Evergreen...but sweet mother of god. That struggle session was the most moronic thing I’ve ever heard.

Your insights, Mr. Boyce was as incredibly profound and prophetic years ago when I first watched the clips as they most certainly are today....even more so, actually.

A double dose of the insanity With this directors cut / bonuses

"Pig...it's a gender-neutral term for cop." At first i thought this was self-aware humor, but alas....

What an amazing body of work. I've watched it back to back right through. I have never seen a better exposition of such a chaotic situation. This so reminds me of some of the student protests in London when I was growing up. The difficulty in allowing young people who are still developing reasoning powers and social skills, to wield power over any institution is self-evident and is not going away any time soon. It's easy to blame any number of historical factors for this and the over-generalisation of identity politics without leeway for individuality. Society is flawed and each generation thinks they know why and they can fix it. Sadly they can't. Well done on your hard work Benjamin. I am in awe of your skill. x

Thank you for how much work you have done on this, benjamin.

These people are insane.

Thank you, Benjamin, for creating this series and including this audio in the maelstrom of insanity that is these events. I used to be part of that cult but always knew in my gut that some things were off. I had started watching your videos when the events at Evergreen first made some news (in 2017), but then went went through some stuff in my life and wasn't really ready to continue until now. It's amazing what has changed/become worse since this happened. I'm Canadian (BC actually) and some of the changes in laws up here are mind boggling. Again, thank you for doing this necessary work to keep reason and rationality alive.

I just don't understand why there is not a class action suit against the school for allowing this to happen. I'm officially old now, I guess. 40 years ago, seminar was about the reading. If you hadn't done the reading it really showed. We had sometimes fairly passionate discussions about the art of what we were doing. People actually respected those who were well versed in the subject matter. One of the reasons I loved the northwest was because I didn't have to listen to actual white racists, speak the racist crap I was surrounded by, growing up in St Louis. Because basically *everyone* I met in the PNW just didn't generalize. Frankly, I don't believe them when they say people are calling them racial slurs on campus. Not the place I spent seven years trying to eke out the ability to compose. (Yeah it took me 7 years. Money dried up. My plans were vague. I worked while I took a single mod every quarter at night, and then took out loans for my last two years there.) I got to do amazing things that are still peak moments. Workshops with Ghanian drummer Isreal Ano and Obo Ade. (Who literally pounded complex rhythms into my shoulder to get it in me.) Pianists with experimental tunings. Student composers groups doing choral work that was really interesting. Guitarist Herb Ellis. Odetta. Incredible bands local and national. Dan Evans' connections brought SOS Howard Shultz to speak, and he wasn't shouted down - people organized questions that put him on the spot for foreign policy. Maybe things have changed, and there is a new batch of openly racist children coming of age and going to Evergreen, but, well, *really*? Times change, my data set is small, but I just find it hard to believe.

everyone of these adults need to spend a month in a different country. just 30 days. Also, they are in college. Can they not complete a sentence without saying "umm like " 10 times? These adults, because thats what they are, do not seem to notice their sexist racist words.

That was a wild ride. Thanks for doing this project.

I keep hearing people saying they feel like theyre facing physical threats and violence, but no one ever seems to go into detail about that, like actual incidents where people have been verbally abused on campus for being black or trans, or physically threatened, or actually assaulted. The closest ive gotten to a concrete example is the incident Professor Wolach mentioned here, which he didnt go into detail about, so i assume everyone knows what he's talking about(?). It's highly frustrating.

great choice on the editing! Hearing Homer Simpson shriek in distress always cheers me up😸

"you've been killing me all quarter with your white silence" XDDD is this a Fugees song?

The last couple mins was one of the most distilled and well articulated explanations regarding what is happening in terms of social justice I've ever heard!

I like to believe you have enough content for episode 100. I can't get enough of this saga. Great work dude :)

Your assessment at the end from 2017 is so on point.

Thank you for your bravery and honesty in presenting this video. NAMASTE

Yeah i',m down with the bleep kids, I'll prove it by using language as bad as theirs. -Now there is someone who should resign.

That ending was very cathartic, thanks for that.

whenever benjamin speaks something that makes sense you can just hear their frustration. not in words, but the complete silence and the snapping and tapping and sucking air in the nose

Well I’m done with this doc and I just wanna crawl up into my bed with a bottle of vodka and stare at the wall for the rest of the day

Finished! Holy, what can I say after all that, that hasn’t already been said. The first two thirds of it all was tough watching, but as more reasoned voices entered the scenes the more palpable it became. This seems like a passion project, Evergreen and the events at the time being a place important enough to document. I’m glad you did, I think juxtaposed against what’s going on in the world beyond is telling. It indicates this teaching wasn’t restricted to this college, it is prevalent throughout the western world. In Canada it has infested everything, but I’m not sure if because our population is 1/10th the size of the US or for other reasons, the impact does not appear as outwardly harsh, at least not yet. If that’s a good thing or not is debatable. Regardless, thanks for the amazing work and I will rest easy in my mountain abode, feet firmly planted on hard rock, sanity safely in hand, knowing there is truth being spoken about this, as I think it is truth that will ultimately prove the antidote for what will eventually boil down to something like neo-communism, once it shows it’s true form. Cheers!

I'm so glad that I went to West Point and Viet Nam so I didn't have to experience such terrible aggression.

Loved the "ciao!" * Turns toward horizon *

I saw AR testifying at a city council meeting with a similar argument not to long ago.

This is the sort of thing that should maybe rather happen in therapy, not in school. But then again, I don't think even the best psychiatric professionals could make a dent in that sort of crazy

Sometimes when they talks it reminds me of the speeches from the DDR(German half which suffered under communist/socialist oppression). Like people carefully choosing words to avoid getting their lives ruined.

Excellent video...and terrifying.

New drinking game- Shot everytime "like" is used

closing commentary is spot on

This is so weird hearing these students’ histrionics. I had a dear sister, my best friend...she died in 2014, so can’t be hurt by my disclosure. Listening to these students reminded me so much of the way my sister acted when she was 16 and 17and her schizophrenia began making itself known and heard...very loudly. She would start arguments with our parents where she would accuse them of somehow being heinous to her, even though we had an upper middle class upbringing in a stable two parent home and never lacked anything we needed, and mostly got what we wanted, too. The episodes always rose to a crescendo of tears of rage. It was never clear just what she felt she was angry ABOUT. She wasn’t diagnosed until she was 18. Is there is such thing as shared or contagious mental illness? It’s clear that nothing the students are saying others are doing to them is real. NOTHING. I believe this is quite dangerous.

Question: did Evergreen have white professors who talked and/or lectured frequently about racial injustice? Based on the amount of "I feel" and "I think" coming out of the crying peoples mouths, they are responding to a message they believe they are receiving; that their lives are in danger. I don't know if there's any evidence of that, because none has been presented, but even I have taken classes where professors are wildly irresponsible with messages of oppression because they give zero guidance or solutions to addressing the problems they themselves are imposing on their students. Young people who don't know better are absorbing this message of urgency without any tools to deal with it, and it's probable that this has exacerbated the student interpretation and therefore reaction over time.

"Alexa!" kind of sounds like Rocky saying "Adrian!"

Hearing an educator cursing at a student is so disgusting. Even the educator invoked his own victimhood to shut her down. Jesus Christ this is messed up

Was this recorded in the child care facility? What are the shrieks, and yells and grunts? Edit: Ohhh ffs, this is one crazy psychotic nightmare. It sounds like a HR Geiger/Chthulu performance art piece. Much respect for anyone who made it out of evergreen without a straightjacket

Silence is murder. Literally, murder.

I haven't heard such arrogance and self aggrandizment .... unreal.

I came across the first part of this series yesterday, and have since watched through the whole thing.... Every time I thought it couldn't get any more horrifying, it did. I feel like I need a really long shower...

these people live miserable fairytale lives. Concerning the last part of the video, I am amazed at your level of insight and how you articulated it. I honestly could not have said it better myself.

They're always talking about "stories" that need to be told, but they rarely get to the actual stories.

this should be on netflix its crazier than tiger king

Just finished #22. I watched all completely today and your explanation of what occurred inside of Evergreen is phenomenal, incisive, & perfectly depicts a microcosm of what's happening now in the US as parts of a political party imports our own 'NEW' Cultural Revolution. Excellent work!!

"It's, it's why y'all can never give actual... ... YEAHFAOLUKADHFDGH" I laughed out loud at this

As someone who used to teach drama writing, you couldn't make this up. The best writers I know of who are good at getting inside the minds of crazy people could not come up with this.

"We are now in the time of sense making." Most assuredly not, Carolyn.

Merci

Amazing work Benjamin. The protesters were in an ecstatic religious frenzy. An inquision.

Great series. Thank you for the hard work of putting all these different sources together. Would love to hear your thoughts on the book “the coddling of the American mind” by Jonathan Haidt. Evergreen is mentioned lol

second watch of the series. Sad it's almost over. Ben needs to get back into documentaries....this is just phenomenal. It's like watching The Office.

All interesting. The last 5 minutes articulates perfectly what people are struggling to verbalize in 2023.

This recording is amazing

The impressive part is how engaged all the students are. Both the hysterical and the skeptical. If the prof was more competent he could've taught some real therapy techniques for listening. You often can't rationalize emotions and trying to do so is often counterproductive.