That’s primo unintentional bigotry right there.

Logic and reason belongs to whites... *WOOHOO!*

It's genuinely disturbing how they're saying logic and reason are only attributable to White people. Sounds like something a White Supremacist would say.

Knowledge is a fundamental truth, 2+2=4 is the same for both white or black. It only adds up to 5 when something is skewed.

@@yuothineyesasian : soooo... ...does that mean that the speaker is a white supremacist? Is the *demand* that someone stop *demanding* that others stop being white an acknowledgement that logic and reason and white forms of knowledge are superior? Just asking for a friend.

Examples of cognitive dissonance abound in the struggle session. It's one way you know it's a cult. Kinda glad I ripped off the bandaid. Always enjoy your content btw!

karen straughan Surprised the term “jazz hands” hasn’t been deemed problematic yet, as there must be some way for it to be construed as cultural appropriation.

They have to keep themselves in a state of near-hysteria to suppress all the cognitive dissonance. It's why they can't allow any members of the mob to actually talk to the accused: the minute they actually try to reason with Bret they're in danger of noticing their own hypocrisy.

Cognitive dissonant, Dunning Kruger and hypocritical usages or Frankfurt school teachings.

Very good point!

These KIDS are delusional and disrespectful. Bret showed great restraint.

@Сперти за правду Yikes

I was concerned several years ago that this was going to leech out into society at large and that's just what has happened. This is going nowhere good.

This is a great discussion of how social justice/intersectionality are so dangerous as they infect our institutions: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j6p2f5ap3Kupd2w.html

Jillian Perkins agreed.. the group think process of discerning fact is flawed by its nature.. but is now being played out in discourse and sadly policy for more and more places.

But did you see how angry they got when they thought someone was misinterpreting what _they_ were saying?

I think it may also have just have a teeeeensy little bit to do with the proponents of all this semi-new, whiteness-dismantling, colonizer-denormifying Mumbo Jumbo getting SICK AND TIRED of being backed into rhetorical corners and forced to acknowledge staggering numbers of contradictory premises, and thus inventing (or more accurately, BORROWING from many, many prior examples) a method of bullet-proofing their assertions by elevating them (Gospel-like) ABOVE AND BEYOND the realm of permissible discourse. So now, just like that Pharisee in "Life of Brian" counting each new time the accused said "Jehovah" (even in defense of the original charge) as a unique instance of blasphemy -- or the Medieval Inquisitor telling an alleged witch that her protests only provide him with further proof of guilt -- or the modern-day prosecutor who asks the defendant "when did you finally stop beating your wife?" -- they've rediscovered a perfect way to unburden themselves of the responsibility for defending their own positions AND, AT THE SAME TIME, ensured that they'll never again have to face another humiliating public smack-down like the ones I GUARANTEE they've experienced in the past... ...back before they stumbled upon "just call it racist," and realized what a silver bullet the phrase had the potential to become.

By that logic, I could accuse straight women of being homophobic for not wanting to date women and they need to accept my accusation as The Truth because a lesbian uttered it and immediately apologize and bed a woman. It’s absurd. Privilege checking was supposed to be a tool to stop and consider how your experiences and vantage point might be different and consider other points of view before entrenching yourself in your original conclusion, but the concept was quickly bastardized and metastasized to function completely contrary to that aim. The point of it is to enforce uniformity of thought and limit exposure of the masses to alternate views while simultaneously training them to shut down avenues of reasoned discourse because those extreme fringe voices guiding the movement on some level understand that most people will see that ideas they have painted as caricatures of bigotry are nothing of the sort and that the extremist voices won’t survive the scrutiny of an actual discussion.

Testify!

"It's because they don't believe in innocent until proven guilty for those they even THINK they disagree with." ^this sentence just ninja'd my brain into a consideration I've never considered before^ The concept of a jury living inside someone's head, & that jury already has their mind made up before the lawyers have even made their opening arguments. Guilt until proven innocent is so easy to see in a real live courtroom. But when it's metaphorically taking place in an individuals mind, it's so hard to see through relentless hostile rhetoric. Thank you Ian for outlining such a thought. Reading your comment will forever change how I handle countless interactions for the rest of my life, for the better.

hey hey hey now! my 6th grade obnoxiously overdramatic son is WAY more emotionally mature then these asshats! 😏😆

I think that's a bit of an undersell for the junior high school students, don't you?

Because that's what their college professors teach them?

There was a particular professor at Evergreen who really pushed the idea that reason and rational thinking are "white ways of knowing". And she was a major contributor to the equity council. So, people followed her lead. Once that ideology becomes policy and is implemented across all programs it spreads pretty fast.

Because they have developed the part of their brain that can help them see things from other people's perspective. If they did they would understand that logic and reason are all we have to fight this tribalistic nonsense.

@@girlwriteswhat Basically. You go to college and people tell you that a lot of American education is bullshit and that you should question everything. So kids question their default cultural OS and prior education and wind up with new answers that they then accept. Unfortunately, it's very rare that people keep asking questions to the cultural model that replaces their national default, which could be just as, if not MORE wrong than the one they grew up with, if only they stopped to consider the possibility.

That kid sounds like such a white supremacist, seriously.

Look at Antifa the other day. They attacked a random older guys wife. He tried to stop them. They knocked him out and then as a group they stomped him with steel capped boots. He could have been killed and each member of Antifa would say it's not their fault as they didn't kick as hard or as much. They never think that a group shoving, hitting and pushing a person can kill them. They were travelling around the campus with baseball bats shortly after this. They could have easily killed someone while accepting not blame due to their race or the excuse that the victims speech was violence so they needed to defend themselves with bats. I have seen the speech is violence excuse used many times, Antifa loves to use it. They attacked the reporter Andy Ngo because of his violent speech in the media so they gave him a brain hemorage. They still cheer for putting him in the hospital.

Dude, their new target is women like me. Gay women, who refuse to accept that "trans women are women" and exclude them from our dating pool. Because we don't like dick. You can't make this shit up.

@@mostlypeacefulgaydy6396 ROFL, This was all started on your behalf, and as long as this way of feeling benefitted you, it was acceptable to you. And now the witch hunt includes you.

@@renegadedalek5528 Shit that shit, dummy. You're not happy unless everyone who isn't exactly like you becomes exactly like you. She was trying to make a point in that she stood up against this nonsense, and that, even though she is gay, she is no longer considered safe with these SJWs. That's how crazy they've become. Her sexuality has nothing to do with this.

@OverMan not in any other way than being biologically accurate and not wanting cocks in frocks in my spaces.

At least 1 honest idiot

Damn that's a great quote.

Very good quote there.

I could find an equally good quote. For a price.

@@reharl4953 I raise you seven whole tendies

@@IISocratesII Hoooo shit. Mr. High Roller over here. I fold.

Why can't I look away? Am I entertained by this?

George is a CIA plant. This is a social experiment. They are weaponizing out-group bias.

"white forms of knowledge" discounts all the philosophical traditions of the Indian grammarians and the Confucian scholars, and pretty much plays into white supremacists notions that philosophy and rational thinking is a European thing.

@@cbcarlse im not sure if it's scarier to believe that it's a crazy experiment or if it's scarier that these people are such idiots.

@@sluggo2014 Same here.

And disrespectful. It's still disconcerting to hear 18yr olds call 40-50 yr old professors by their first name. Call me old fashioned, but there is a level of respect in general that young people should have for older/elder people. Like when parents of little kids let their children call adults by their first name, very disrespectful.

Exactly! We employ 200 people at our company. I interview candidates 3-4 times a week. If I see Evergreen State College, I pass...EVERYTIME!

Well I will say that people who hold strong political views are most often capable of setting those views aside in a workplace.

@@newgtguy that's awesome and I agree, but Benjamin is one as well...that's the sad part

@@newgtguy You're doing the right thing. The only way to punish this kind of histeria is to chastise it economically. Next time someone starts a student rebellion they better have a better reason than a ambiguous email. Best of luck avoiding social justice brats at ur company!

@@grunck1estan Thats part of why they are pandering. They have to pander so somebody will actually pay tuition.

Evergreen accepted basically anyone with a pulse

Yes. Rationality is considered evil by these children.

That's girls for ya.

These students probably shouldn't even be in trade school. I've taught my share of college writing courses, and the sentence construction these students rely on in their verbal jostle with Bret suggest none of them would've pass my class or the class of my colleagues.

I know that was probably a joke. But it's still a mistake to respond to anti-intellectualism with another form of anti-intellectualism.

@@icemachine79 LMFAO you think sending someone to trade school is anti-intelectual, because you are too stupid to understand that tradespeople can run intellectual rings around the dumb assed college student we could all hear in the video. Are you biggoted against tradespeople for any particular reason?

@@ricodelavega4511 they wouldnt last five minutes in a trade school, their petulance rules them, they have reversed the power dynamic, almost all of them have a personality disorder of some type, trades need self discipline, these kids dont know what that is. They would be less successful in trade schools than they are at this college, intellectualism has room for whimsy, irrationality even, trade school? Nope, at trade school you are there to learn. *after listening to this video it actually occurs to one that they also have learning disorders, the students challenging weinstein are actually de facto retarded. Like full on, low iq, behaviourally disordered, racist and above all.... Retarded. One can source this colleges problem directly to its admission criteria. Even the girl defending weinstein is a literal special needs case. These students would have difficulty in a job flipping burgers let alone learning to weld or work a spanner.

@@whatdafarkenhell7110 He says exactly the opposite of what you understood, stating that what happened at evergreen means college as a whole is a failure is pretty anti intellectual.

Don't kid yourself. This is a school for social justice advocates. 98% of them will never be successful in society.

It's already been scrapped. Isn't that how Comey excused Hillary?

And how do you think those people would react if they were told “your opinions offend or upset me, therefore they are violent and cause me harm, so therefore you should not express your opinions”?

It's nothing to do with the rest of your post, but sometimes you just gotta apologize to your girlfriend for something she dreamt you doing/saying haha. I don't think that's all that uncommon. It's completely batshit but women be like that sometimes, and that they can be a bit out-there emotionally is part of the feminine mystique, no? Spice of life, I say. Unless she was truly awful in more concrete ways (maybe she was) seems a bit unfair to compare her to these lunatics. You were dating her so she can't have been as unhinged and repulsive as these people, I'm sure. All I'm saying is coping with and learning to love the emotional roller coaster that women are so often on is probably good for us as men. And the truly equanimous thing to do is to discern when it's fine to just throw her a bone and give her what she wants emotionally. There's a limit, but I've also had to apologize to a gf for things she dreamt me doing/saying and there was something about it I found endearing tbh. She knew it was crazy but she'd bring it up anyways. I would tease her about it, then give in and apologize, cause what the hell does it matter anyways? She's just looking for affection probably, reset whatever bad emotional juju her dream gave her.

@@SquareNoggin In the end, she turned out to be, in fact, delusional and demanded her own version of reality. If I had a plan B, I should have left that relationship years earlier

You read my mind. I'm guessing that at least half of them are still high on the power they had and are still living out the celebrity. The rest probably moved out into the real world and are either embarrassed to admit they were involved or they're still lunatics perpetuating the same problems.

Working on Elizabeth Warren's Presidential campaign.

Will this be on their resume?

They are the new Democrat Socialist candidates. Ready to join AOC and Co.

@@sluggo2014 I do wonder if some have tried to get Ben to obscure them in his videos. Jamil, perhaps?

Allegedly.

I'm really surprised no charismatic figure has emerged and turned this into some kind of New Agey, neo-Gnostic religion.

@@drewmann856 she did Naima Lowe

There were several small victories in this debacle. Naima Lowe and Rashida Love, two of the largest instigators, have likely had their "careers" ruined permanently . Sadly, two others were also victims. Brett and his wife Heather have had their careers "ruined" as far as Evergreen is involved. However, since they are intelligent and kind human beings, I'm certain they will find meaningful employment when they desire.

Wicked. Remember the movie?

@@kentonbaird1723 it's a version of Ivanhoe on the BBC.

Harvey Reed my fascination with this is that it encapsulates leftist (non)thinking writ large. I too appreciate the time taken to unravel one event in order to facilitate larger perspective.

I wonder, after all this, with the school giving in to the students "demands", do these students all feel better about themselves? Did it give them self esteem and confidence? Did they then go back to their regular classes, and demand from those professors, and continue to point out whatever they didn't like? Did they carry this behavior into whatever job they found? Also, how do they deal with white people in every day life?

OverMan the first few episodes had many comments pushing a narrative that these are all just young and naive kids and they’ll grow up and learn to calm down. Like you said, this is the result of sinister authoritarians in positions of power. This was a carefully engineered outcome, and the students, ignorant as they may be, were willing participants in becoming radicalized and forming a mob. This is very dangerous.

That’s a good point. I think the vast majority of students weren’t participating in any of this and were just trying to continue to go to class and do their work without being impeded.

That would have been a better result. Darwinism at work.

🍇 kool-aid?

I’ll release 40-60 minute episodes that are cleaned up.

Agreed!

Yep, we called ours sir and miss

@@pembomassive1394Yes, or Dr. or Professor. I just can’t believe how the teachers and administrators allow the students to make demands, to yell at them, interrupt them, and even swear at them. Should not tolerate that from anyone.

@ couldn't happen tk a nicer guy.

@@Isobel31Swan ?

Agreed. I believe some very poor parenting played a big part in some of these kids lives. Still, they made poor choices, but they weren't equipped very well to GO to college, it seems.

Thanks for the link. Very concise, helpful descriptions of tactics I frequently see used, particularly by people with certain ideologies. Being able to identify them and choosing not to engage in prolonged "discussions" with people who have no interest in recognizing why they are awful strategies will hopefully save me some headaches, lol.

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Bret’s interaction with those students was absolutely riveting. I could only hope to maintain that level of composure and integrity in a situation that volatile. He was positively elegant.

@Rebecca Mattis He would be better off removing it. The few exceptions are not worth the risk - if 98% of a bowl of M&Ms were poisoned, would you eat one?

@Rebecca Mattis Good to know that if only 3% of the M&Ms were poisoned, you would happily chow down. In any case, the protesters were festooned with dark triad personality disorders, which can mask themselves for the short amount of time it takes to get hired.

@Rebecca Mattis Any man who has ever dated a wammin has seen her go from charming to homicidal in 6 seconds.

The Beatniks of the 1960s, started the "finger snaps" when they thought something was "cool, man". (and they were mostly all white) Just interesting, but it's part of history, and they need some history lessons.

They even do it in their own small groups. Sooo weird.

@@dede4004 "COMMUNITY LOVE!" ha, ha.

@@dede4004 50s, but yeah. Everytime I see that I think "What? Do they think it's 1955?" Allen Ginsburg tripping balls wouldn't put up with that kind of thinking!

talsapps They’re just maintaining a safe space, along with other safety and non-triggering techniques such as ganging up on the identified oppressor in the room, collectively screaming profanity and shaming epithets, having mace at the ready, and sending texts to barricade dissenters inside the room.

He’s a class act.

Leftists were so open-minded their brains fell-out. Since race is real and still studied, but it's now blasphemy to say so openly, scientists now call it "population". What is a population? A group of people with genetic and phenotypic traits that can be traced with DNA. So a race. But we don't call it with that blasphemous name anymore.

Equality is, to simplify, people being free of government discrimination and being judged without consideration of race or sex. This cannot lead to equal outcomes, because we are not identical on average. Equity is, in practice, any disparity where women and blacks and browns is blamed on white supremacism and patriarchy, and the government and corporations MUST discriminate based on race and sex to equalize outcomes regardless of merit.

Not really. Much more substance to Bolshevik revolution.

This is how a "Struggle Session" during the "Cultural Revolution" looked like in communist China.

Yeah that assertion was particularly horrifying. Sadly, not the first time I've heard that phrase used to describe the concepts of reason and logic.