Cut down the tall trees??? What a ridiculous speech

I like how Thoreau’s idea of being uplifted by the grandeur of nature is now interpreted as a metaphor to destroy that grandeur in the name of equity.

Does she even realize that "cutting down the tall trees" is a well-known metaphor used to describe how incompetent, mediocre people deliberately set out to destroy the competent and talented out of spite, jealousy and envy.

Graduation speaker; I encourage you to tell your own stories Benjamin; I'm gonna tell some stories all right

🎶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🎶

Evergreen has a Jonestown feel to it.

She did not understand the Thoreau quote at all. Just goes to show she has to drag people down to lift herself up which is what CRT is all about.

Every school board considering the adoption of a CRT curriculum should be required to watch The Complete Evergreen Story. Watching a campus devolve into complete madness should be a sufficient deterrent.

When you introduce yourself as a list of identities, you sound like a Starbucks order.

This series is an incredible accomplishment. The amount of footage that speaks for itself, the profiling of key players, the whole thing was really impressive.

Jamil: "So what harms and upsets me the most is when I don't get my way."

This is a great example of the inmates running the asylum

I checked out the bios of some of the most radical professors. About half studied at what are considered some of the most prestigious colleges and universities in the country: Columbia, Brown, Pennsylvania, Swarthmore, etc. The fish rots from the head down.

Around the 8.20 mark: "Demanding" to be loved. That's them in a nutshell. The arrogance, the ignorance, the lack of self awareness, the imposition and expectations placed upon others, the avoidance of basic human nature. And. Their own unhappiness & emptiness.

Benjamin, I have found this story, from the start, to be fascinating. Your coverage of events and the backstory has been of a very high level. I look forward with anticipation to your epilogue.

So, Jamil's definition of hate speech is that which does not validate him. Got it.

"Cut down the tall trees" The Hutu Said Call To Genocide Of The Tutsis

I wish more people realized how important this historical document is. Thanks Benjamin

I love how at 2:55 the video blends to the vision of devastation once the dream of cutting tall trees has been accomplished.

Jamil was seriously toxic.

Had I not started watching your Evergreen series, Benjamin, I would have no idea how we got to this point. I wouldn't have understood 2020 & the BLM riots, or the human costs of teaching intersectionality, or what exactly is CRT & why it's toxic. I had friends who tried to tell me that I didn't understand Evergreen, but had your videos to point at in rebuttal & say, "Look, it's all on tape." And without understanding his era, the artist has no hope of ever transcending it. Thanks ✌️

"cut down the trees so this forest shines brighter and brighter" So just ravage the landscape and destroy the ecosystem so I feel better is it? How about, NO.

In the last two days I've watched all 24 episodes and the speech took the freaking cake. OMG cut down the trees --- horrific. THE absolute MAOism of it all. Really well done Benjamin.

Here in Ireland we have a phrase, it's kind of ironic..........'Hope it always stays so good for you.'

Benjamin, I get excited whenever I see you upload a chapter on Evergreen. Thank you for putting together such a wonderful documentary!

15:14 Best part of the video! I am so happy for officer Stacy. She is such a dedicated and good person who didn't deserve any of the cr*p she got from that barnyard masquerading as a college. glad she is doing well.

Those words by Jamil were very telling. There will never be enough reparations.

That emeritus prof’s speech sounded like a hostage statement.

The Limp Bizkit graffiti guy is my hero

So, deforestation is the answer to being afraid in the woods? That was what she got out of it? What an immature and destructive viewpoint. It shouldn't shock me, I know these people, but it still does.

you and Limp Bizkit dude are the only rays of hopeful light in this dark, dark tale

Theroux, some old damn white dude. I can't even deal with this right now. I must be running out of racial stamina or maybe I'm fragile.

Steps to a beautiful and bright forest: 1. Cut down all the tall trees

Jamil and most of the others throughout this series who talk about racism, etc. never make a point, the never make a sensible statement. They say a ton of words without saying anything. Like most politicians.

Crowds go insane together, sanity is found again slowly one by one.

Right when I think Benjamin has forgotten us and moved on...he drops another bomb....💥

They were all ahead of their time, it just took everyone else a couple years to catch up. Not that anyone should have adopted any of this curriculum.

As somebody who is Vietnamese, it is very telling how she explicitly said South Asians and excluded East Asians - we really are convenient minorities

Where is Jamil? Did he change his name? Fall off a cliff? Did his posse take their bats to him? Join the Aryan Nation?

I still find the whole Evergreen situation endlessly fascinating. I think it's because it was one of the first times I had heard about an event where I truly couldn't accept that it had actually happened. There were certainly many instances of lunacy in the years leading up to it, but when I first became aware of what happened at Evergreen, it felt like something that could only happen in some insane parallel dimension, not in the world in which I lived. I wish I knew more about the lives lived by the ringleaders leading up to the events, to try and potentially understand how they ended up where they did, and doing/saying the things they did. It probably still wouldn't totally make sense, as the answer is probably just progressivism taken to extremes, but it might help make a little more sense out of things.

The series is more riveting than anything Netflix could throw up! The-fascination-with-the-abomination lol Should be watched by every parent!!

The only thing holding anyone down these days is their own attitude. The rest of this is just people who love to be seen as victims because they lack the will to take responsibility for their own lives.

this Documentary should have hundreds of thousands of more views

It's the 'words=violence' thing that makes me laugh every time I hear it. If only the parents of these academics and students had taught them "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me", we could have avoided this whole sorry saga.

@benjaminABoyce i work in higher ed, 27 years now. This is one of the best documentaries I've ever watched. Id love to share it with colleagues but know I'd be the one on the chopping block. ❤ to you and Bret for documenting these events.

Nice to hear that Stacy Brown has been vindicated and compensated she got too much crap as she tried to do her job. The President of a College/University should not be able to interfere with a Law Enforcement Professional in the course of their duty as they are employed by the Board of the College/University.

Perfectly reasonable. Jamil just wants everybody else to accept every thought that pops into his head without question. What's the problem?

All of this absurdity makes me Really Glad that I dropped out of high school, got my GED, & went into the trades. Dodged a bullet there. Didnt get indoctrinated, didnt get harassed, & probably make twice as much money as any of these wokies with "degrees" and mountains of student loan debt.

Man attending Evergreen was a wild trip. This brings me back haha

"Don't become the trees in someone else forest". For what reason this lady think that people go to a forest?

Thank you for showcasing Thomas at the end. His speech was eloquent, well-thought out and spot-on.

Absolutely fascinating series- so thought provoking and well put together. Thank you!!

It's the parable of "the blind men and the elephant". When one has no vision and relies on touch, one has challenges conceptualizing a thing that cannot be held within one's hands which another with vision does not have.

This series has single-handedly shifted my politics towards the centre. Also, the side-eye inserts gave me life! Only one criticism: not enough ducks.

Oh god, it never ends. Thank you Benjamin.

Benjamin, your series on Evergreen has been stunning. I imagine this has been an incredible hard and difficult path to create this story of what happened. I hope it has been a labor of love for you and not burdensome. It has sure opened my eyes. I watch and am flabbergasted. I admire those students, faculty and administrators who had the courage to say - stop, can we talk about this- (obviously not). How will we as a nation ever get real change, make real progress when so many are not even remotely close to reality. Thanks

I still think the students who fomented this kerfuffle were not performing up to documented standards and were pissed off that they were getting negative feedback from professors on the lack of quality of scholarship in their work. They didn’t want to adhere to submission deadlines-that’s why one of the demands for resolution was to not have to turn in work.

Cut down the trees? Really? Oh no.

Back in the 90s I often wondered how the hyper indulgence of children would play out. 🧐

Thank you for another great part of the documentary! Thomas is a very insightful young man, I can see why he wasn't wanted in the class anymore lol Much luck to him in the future.

The things the young adult at around 15:00 describes are utterly outlandish to me - this is supposed to be university, right? I'm not American, I'm german and these "classes" belong if anything in school classes, not in institutions of higher learning. I mean the tuition fee over there is actually a lot of money and they play some childish social experiment you could watch on youtube when they should get an education. At this point I'd think any person with some reason would curse this mad house for luring them in to waste money and time.

The Evergreen events have also a positive aspect: We learnt that Evergreen’s ideological vision of a utopian society does not work.

Jamil Bee talks about what “feels like violence” yet he wants no limits on what is considered racism or what is considered an appropriate response. He would be worse than Robespierre if he had his way. He would redefine the limits of violence by example.

Brilliant ending, sir! Always maintain that wry sense o humor!

these people, in claiming agency, abdicated their own agency by asking the question, "what are you going to do about it?"

Thank you for this series, it was an excellent revisiting and extremely in-depth telling of the Apocalypse come to the US. (You know I couldn't help but to add some humor... it comes to me like a cat-o-nine-tails fits in George Bridges hand so he can flagellate when not being shit on by students.)

Such great work on this important story, Benjamin.

I'm really inspired to plant trees now. Long live adversity!

You have spoken to a terrific group of articulate students. Such a disappointment for them to have all this happening at their college whilst they are trying to learn.

Benjamin, if ever a report was deserving of a Pulitzer Prize your story is. Excellent work. it is absolutely maddening and frustrating but you let those responsible for this fiasco show themselves for what they are.

The recent Scott Adams controversy reminded me of all this. If segregation does return, I hope these Redguard type of campus screechers get a section in the history books about it. Screecher: _Go away, trees, so we can bask in the sunlight._ Trees: 🤔 _You got it, boss!_

They are a race of aliens. They speak in something that resembles English, but it's a language I'll never understand.

This whole series is one of the deeper dives I've ever seen in my life

Jamil is so petulant, how can one single dork take down an institution, no matter how ridiculous

Thanks for this documentary, Benjamin, well done.

It’s criminal to charge for this type of “education.” Think of all the debt accrued just to walk away with your own echo.

Thomas H. Such a smart guy. Hope no employer rejects him just because he went to Evergreen!!!

Pretentiousness and oppression are mutually exclusive, keep that in mind.

Holy shit….what was said around 28:00 is INSANITY….this person is definitely a sociopath

Great work!

Popcorn time !!! It's funny, every time I watch one of these I now think of the kids in Erec Smith's rhetoric class and chuckle. I used to think of the CHAZ and feel black pilled. This is better... Thanks Benjamin

Just finished this docu-series today, woah! good job

Wait.. if you're disabled maybe you cannot stand up. That's ableist!

They are so insightful and courageous!

Excellent work! 👌

"oh shit it's backwards, do you think anyone will notice?"

Are we just going to ignore the fact that she’s repeating a phrase used by Hutus, to describe killing Tutsis during the Rwandan genocide? 😳

Dang, that "What you should know" flyer is chilling

“How dare you” indeed

People still don't know about Evergreen.

I DIED Laughing @24:06 My journey through this entire serious was all made worth it just for the amount of laughter I got out of this moment 😅 😂 🤣 Thank you Ben. Love you dude

Love you Ben

It’s been a while since I’ve watched some of the earlier episodes in this documentary, but have you discussed the Evergreen situation in the light of all the CRT battles presently going on at school board meetings? Is Evergreen the natural progression, or result, of CRT being taught in schools? I am an educator (elementary school), and am very interested in this question. Thank you for putting all this information together- this doc is quite amazing. Brilliant work. 👍👍👍

Academic Struggle Session

this has been better than the office . it should be made into a TV show we brits would love the fat lesbian black victim professor she should be a bond villain

“Protest is a [fucking] skill.” - my personal favorite tall-ass tree in this Soylent Evergreen saga Thanks, Saul!

Jesus Christ. The point where the speaker has the second group stand up and labels them as the trees, continuing into that monologue, is really something to consider. That's quite an open and opening opening to this part of the story.

the woods are NOT uninhabited

You are an artist Benjamin.

"sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me" -- is this phrase defunct now? are words actual violence??