Episode 14 (How a totem becomes a blind spot): ruclips.net/video/gH-J2k5AnvM/видео.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
This particular episode I found quite impactful; if I had to put my finger on why, It would be the disregard they showed the admissions officer. Not even that they clearly didn't agree with his take - but because they couldn't have a go at him (due to his "identity") they simply ignored him.
That's a valid interpretation of what they said, but there is another one. When Jodi Friedman talked about "closing the achievement gap," she might've been talking about students globally ("global" as in all of the U.S.), not just in their school. Reviewing the STAR Academy footage a few times, it seems to me they were saying, "We thought if we made our students perform well academically that this would close the achievement gap. However, that doesn't help other students in other schools. We think we need to create activists so that those students can be helped as well." It's that old thing about, "Think globally, act locally." In reality, they're lowering their standards. There's no other way to say it. If they're spending significant time creating SJ activists, they're not learning English, history, math, science, etc. A simpler explanation fits into what you said, that for whatever reason, they couldn't raise their student performance, so they cover for that by jumping on the SJW bandwagon. That way, parents won't care that the kids aren't learning anything except how to be disruptive.
@@mmille10 to be fair.. if they lower their grades.. it will close the achievement gap. It's a religion and sacrifice is always part of the equation. Most religions will not sacrifice their children but these ppl are zealots so I not surprised.
@@kungfreddie - My interpretation of the "gap" they were talking about was of that between certain groups of minority students and whites (though people with this ideology often leave out certain other minority groups, or somehow try to call them "white," because they mess up their notions of "privilege"). If they lower their grades, that's not doing anything to close this "gap."
“I see teaching as a political act.” - Probably the most honest and deplorably predatory and narcissistic comment made by an ‘educator’ in this series...
I've long regarded education as a political act, because there are different cultures in the world, and traditionally, education in this country wanted to teach students about our history, partly as a means for justifying our existence as a country; not without its warts, but on balance, seeing it as good. It taught civics, to teach about our political and legal system; math and science, because it saw them as part of our civilization's foundation and heritage, and a means of our societal progress. Not all cultures value these subjects (though history, as a subject, is rather universal, but it's rendered as each culture sees fit). It was a means for passing on our culture to the next generation, not someone else's, as a means for promoting it. It was not pan-cultural, though at least in my education, it tried to teach some of the history of advanced civilizations (Greece, the Hittites, Rome, Byzantium (East Roman Empire), Ottoman Empire, China, etc.), but preferring our culture. I put this in the past tense, because what I'm seeing come out of schools now has me thinking that they're all about teaching children to rebel against the culture they grow up in, but to what end? They never define that.
Mark Miller, Excellent post. Yes, we've seen this also, with the educational system teaching students to despise their own country, and tell them they have NO culture as Americans. Other countries have "cultures" but not OURS, and we should be ashamed of ours, regardless if we had made great strides in many areas or not. Part of that has been teaching racism under the guise of "multiculturalism".
Ken Hiett It’s an unpersoning. These types of ideologies do it a lot. I saw this also in Solzhenitsyn’s book about the gulags. The greatest evil created by the gulags wasn’t the torture and murder (of which there was plenty). It was the way the system unmade who and what it’s victims were. It utterly snuffed out the divine spark in a person. It changed them from humans into human shaped things. There is something profoundly evil about this.
It’s not even education... it’s really indoctrination. The parents raise their children as they see fit... politically speaking. The school system should NOT be making activists out of their students. Parents can raise their children to be activists, schools should just inform the students and challenge them to think and reason. I am so glad I wasn’t raised at the heel of some of these people. It’s only going to get worse. 😐
@@cheerwhiner7829 I'm not 100% sure that it is going to get worse. The fact that enrolment has sharply declined and that they're struggling to find a new president is a good sign that people don't want to be caught up in this craziness. The quickest and easiest way to rid schools of this insanity would be to dramatically increase the wages of student educators accross the board. Being a teacher isn't a job that attracts many people nowadays. There's a variety of reasons for this but the biggest reasons are that educators don't have much job security, it's a very stressful job, and it they don't get payed particularly well. If the system is financially beneficial to educators in a big way then a lot of this sentiment that the system needs to be brought crashing down will be cut off at the source.
@@MrDriedanddone The equity-type lessons are going to be taught to elementary kids in the future- they already are in some places. My district didn’t teach them at my school this year, but that will change. The lessons are divisive- that’s the intention and purpose. I see harm coming down the road. 😐
@@cheerwhiner7829 Australia too. My daughter hates wearing boys clothes but the school us 'gender neutral' so she gets to wear tshirt and shorts. Part of their assignment is also to change the words of the National Anthem which might be part of the 'destroy the establishment' agenda.
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.
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.
Jamil blatantly lied. In one scene he compliments people on barricading the doors with furniture. Two scenes later he’s claiming he doesn’t approve of that and it’s “some anarchist sheet”, binch you’re on camera
@@snusnumcgee9843 And in the scene in between those, he admits to another activist that there are no police coming and that he intentionally started that rumor to get the kids to barricade in the first place. This is Marxism in a nutshell - the manipulative sociopaths use the philosophy + well-meaning intentions of others to jump right in and climb to the top.
Emily Jones good catch. He’s a true psychopath. And according to Benjamin, George Bridges rewarded him with a leadership role on some council or something after all of this
It really blew my mind also that these kids thought they were the rational ones???? As I've watched these videos I just thought these kids were hateful racist self rightouse bunch of over grown toddlers, but the more I watch the more I realize these actions are a product of the environment they are in. This is a reaping of what these college professors and deans have sown. Higher education is nothing more then brainwashing propaganda pushing centers. The professors are so over educated that they have no idea what real life is all about. So if I were a parent or one of these kids I would be highly upset that I've paid thousands to educate my child into a over grown toddler who thinks they are a victim because they live in a country that affords them the ability to cry about racism that is actually looked down on by most of the decent people in america And all you got is a debt and a kid less educated then when they went to this school. SHAME ON YOU EVERGREEN STAFF
"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.
@@Bingewatchingmediacontent wow thats is insane. I was jumped on two occasions, as a kid, by a group of minorities, and fought back instantaneously. Never once did I think I was the problem.
@@Bingewatchingmediacontent No I am not lol I can only imagine how hard it is to challenge a thought that your entire family, friends, community pushed. Takes a lot of intelligence, courage and a ton of integrity to do that ! Cudos !
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.
You should see the winning "debate" team at the 2014 Cross Examination Debate Association national championship. ruclips.net/video/HxtVorLYnds/видео.html I've been around 1/2 as long as you and I feel like the world has gone topsy-turvy. I can't imagine how you feel.
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.
Andrew, true statement. I vascilate back and forth from being angry at the students to feeling sorry for them at the same time. But, I am FURIOUS at the so called academic "professors" who fed them so much garbage.
I'm really not sure that intelligence is the problem. These kids have been brainwashed, they're part of a cult, and being part of that cult prevents them from using their actually not that low intelligence.
the hysteria may have been fueled in part by the fact some students did not have academic capacities necessary for the rigors of that particular college. I suspect this problem will get worse as higher performing students decline to attend universities for which the economic prospects are middling and those same universities continue to fill seats despite the decline in student credentials. Evergreen itself now has a 97 percent acceptance rate as I understand it. Having heard Bret Weinstein speak several times now, it seems likely some students would not be able to follow a course taught by him.
@Le Spam Smart people (I define as higher IQ for this purpose, of course wisdom and IQ are certainly not one and the same) may either find some emotional need satisfied by the cult, or they may feel they will benefit from the cult in some fashion (as Yuri Bezmenov said, "they think they will come to power").
-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.
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?
@@frosksdeadteeth5163 I disagree. Treating college kids like adults is how they grow into adults. Which means responsibility and _consequences_ for their actions. He’s still treating them like a poor parent treats children. He’s letting them have their tantrums, never punishes, and even affirms their nonsense. In many ways, he created these little monsters.
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.
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.
Perhaps they didn't have that in childhood and all this projection tells us that's just what they need - mommies and daddies. However, university administration is not the place to find it.
This is the same question I just had watching this series. What is up with "y'all"? Why is everyone using this word instead of formal language. Is this from some African class?
De-humanizing pale folks, folks that disagree, and anyone “ different “! Pale passing is such a smug thing to say! Most mixed folks ai know are treated the worst!
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 🤦♀️
@@whimsyasmr1393 They seem to be under the impression that you get credits by paying and not having them means they've been taken away as a punishment.
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.
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.
Pulling this sort of shit was exactly what the corrupt among the faculty were training those students for. Not getting jobs, not contributing to their communities and nation, but to serve as expendable foot soldiers in a neomarxist revolution. The only thing that didn't go to plan was who they turned their ire on. But you can bet your bottom dollar that Bridges and co. are working to fix that without losing this batch of conscripts as we speak. Continue giving them the time and financing to work on this and we'll be seeing Evergreen-style ideological zombies on every street corner.
@For Redwall You've got the right idea, but it goes far deeper than that. The entire "critical theory / social justice / intersectionality" movement was designed by French Marxists to appeal to the supremacist element of nearly every identity group and pit them all against each other. Thus (they believe) jump-starting the "glorious global workers' revolution" Saint Karl promised them... Never mind the untold MILLIONS that will die if it works. As they're so fond of saying "you can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs".
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.
nope. they actually made that Jamil guy part of the council that is in charge of re writing the student code of conduct, which they will later, if potentially facing consequences will use to make any infraction void retroactively as its now something that is okay in the newly revised student code of conduct.
...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!
The thing is, it was never really about Bret's emails. They just needed an(other) excuse to create an uproar. Bret was their sacrificial lamb, however we can see that some of these students had been creating chaos long before the email controversy.
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.
"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
More like a cell leader, because this crap is on nearly every university in the western world right now. Worse, as Ben showed in the beginning of this chapter, they're spreading their indoctrinators down to the earliest levels of our education system.
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.
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.
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.
"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!
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.
You're absolutely correct about how it's _supposed_ to work. Sadly it seems like a lot of colleges are more of a direct transaction than a meritocracy or a source of education/skills nowadays. You can buy your way to a degree without any sense or work ethic, but you can't work/think your way to a degree without lots and lots of money at your disposal.
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.
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.
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
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.
I have empathy for the students that couldn't go to the library because of this mess. The students that actually did their studies and didn't get involved with this mess. No the school has a rep for this kind of thing.
"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...
Yeah this is why the Montessori schools are so insidious. They have some good ideas like have kids of various ages interact and being more active physically but ultimately just make kids fall behind.
@@puffball4484 I don't know. This "teaching is political" is just crazy, but I think the idea of children having choices in the way they learn (not full control though) or having different ages in the same class is really great. This intro is more ambiguous than what happens at Evergreen.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Can any kid speak properly anymore? Books were falling out of popularity when I was a kid in the 80s. As soon as the internet got big I noticed the deplorable writing skills of 2/3rds of people writing anything. TV and internet have been rotting our brains for a long, long, loooong time. The parents who have kids now grew up glued to cable TV and never went to libraries or wrote letters. Their kids have the internet stapled to their faces from birth. All the entertainment you could ever waste your time on is there 24 hours a day. No need to write anything properly, no need to learn grammar, no need to be informed beyond your own personal interests.
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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.
Well I’m no rocket surgeon but I’m pretty sure those doors they blocked at the 3:00 mark with waist high furniture open out so.... yeah.... but I get your point👍
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.
As a former sjw who was fully into this shit and used this same language and thought process - I have ptsd from it and am still having to unlearn these thought processes. I didn't know any better. The things they say make sense. If someone had sat me down and told me that my problem was that I fundmentally didn't feel cared for and needed to go to therapy and find real friends not take my frustrations out as an "activist", I would have been better served. But no one did. It took 7 years for me to figure out it was my shit because no one cared about me enough to tell me I was wrong. I had no healthy adults in my life, and no healthy Peers. Essentially I believe this mentality is caused by lack of authentic community Care. It's ironically what they want so much. And they truly need it. Just not in the way they think.
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
he s weaker than what it look, a true spitting pot, you can remove the shit from your toilet with george hairs, he's a true waste of skin. He s probably reading my comment right now thinking I overestimate him, and I probably am
Ive been watching you since your first video on the Evergreen College. I knew that what happened there was Orwellian and almost unbelievably cringy. I didn't know just HOW brainwashed those kids were (are). Now having seen the this series up to here im just like, jesus, their teachers should be charged with abuse. Racist emotional idiocy aside, all this language of "bodies" instead of referring to people as PEOPLE is extremely troubling, though probably essential to propogating their communist world view. That intro documentary/news piece clip or whatever is so telling and disturbing. These people, the most dangerous racists in the country, are teaching kids to view everything through race--a direct inversion of Rev King. And i say dangerous because the future implications to a society which regards race as the defining attribute are not promising. And all this is being sold as PROGRESSIVE.
Episode 14 (How a totem becomes a blind spot): ruclips.net/video/gH-J2k5AnvM/видео.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
Ben, you rock (and poeticize as well).
This particular episode I found quite impactful; if I had to put my finger on why, It would be the disregard they showed the admissions officer. Not even that they clearly didn't agree with his take - but because they couldn't have a go at him (due to his "identity") they simply ignored him.
Keep up the good work. This authoritarian mindset has to be exposed for what it is.
Following this from Scotland. It's seriously fucked up.
Could you link to the source of the opening piece showing social-justice indoctrination in primary school? Just wow!!
"We couldn't raise our students' grades, so we lowered our standards!" --STAR Academy
That's a valid interpretation of what they said, but there is another one. When Jodi Friedman talked about "closing the achievement gap," she might've been talking about students globally ("global" as in all of the U.S.), not just in their school. Reviewing the STAR Academy footage a few times, it seems to me they were saying, "We thought if we made our students perform well academically that this would close the achievement gap. However, that doesn't help other students in other schools. We think we need to create activists so that those students can be helped as well." It's that old thing about, "Think globally, act locally." In reality, they're lowering their standards. There's no other way to say it. If they're spending significant time creating SJ activists, they're not learning English, history, math, science, etc.
A simpler explanation fits into what you said, that for whatever reason, they couldn't raise their student performance, so they cover for that by jumping on the SJW bandwagon. That way, parents won't care that the kids aren't learning anything except how to be disruptive.
I agree Patrick. Thank you Mark for the well put interpretation. 🙌
@@mmille10 to be fair.. if they lower their grades.. it will close the achievement gap. It's a religion and sacrifice is always part of the equation. Most religions will not sacrifice their children but these ppl are zealots so I not surprised.
That should be their slogan considering the footage.
@@kungfreddie - My interpretation of the "gap" they were talking about was of that between certain groups of minority students and whites (though people with this ideology often leave out certain other minority groups, or somehow try to call them "white," because they mess up their notions of "privilege"). If they lower their grades, that's not doing anything to close this "gap."
“I see teaching as a political act.” - Probably the most honest and deplorably predatory and narcissistic comment made by an ‘educator’ in this series...
That sent shivers down my spine. Jaw dropped. Unbelievable.
The politics in any public teaching job are cooked into the system.
Agreed.
I've long regarded education as a political act, because there are different cultures in the world, and traditionally, education in this country wanted to teach students about our history, partly as a means for justifying our existence as a country; not without its warts, but on balance, seeing it as good. It taught civics, to teach about our political and legal system; math and science, because it saw them as part of our civilization's foundation and heritage, and a means of our societal progress. Not all cultures value these subjects (though history, as a subject, is rather universal, but it's rendered as each culture sees fit). It was a means for passing on our culture to the next generation, not someone else's, as a means for promoting it. It was not pan-cultural, though at least in my education, it tried to teach some of the history of advanced civilizations (Greece, the Hittites, Rome, Byzantium (East Roman Empire), Ottoman Empire, China, etc.), but preferring our culture. I put this in the past tense, because what I'm seeing come out of schools now has me thinking that they're all about teaching children to rebel against the culture they grow up in, but to what end? They never define that.
Mark Miller, Excellent post. Yes, we've seen this also, with the educational system teaching students to despise their own
country, and tell them they have NO culture as Americans. Other countries have "cultures" but not OURS, and we should be ashamed of ours, regardless if we had made great strides in many areas or not. Part of that has been teaching racism under the guise of "multiculturalism".
Anyone else as creeped out as me when they refer to human beings as "bodies"?
Ken Hiett I initially heard bodies, used that way in the military. It’s creepy for college kids to use it.
Ken Hiett It’s an unpersoning. These types of ideologies do it a lot.
I saw this also in Solzhenitsyn’s book about the gulags. The greatest evil created by the gulags wasn’t the torture and murder (of which there was plenty). It was the way the system unmade who and what it’s victims were. It utterly snuffed out the divine spark in a person. It changed them from humans into human shaped things.
There is something profoundly evil about this.
Yeah, it sounds psychopathic to me.
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@@jamesp8164 consider reading Ordinary Men if you haven't. Not the same sort of book but also pretty scary.
Not going to lie: speaking as a former teacher and tutor, that STAR Academy clip made me want to start crying.
It’s not even education... it’s really indoctrination.
The parents raise their children as they see fit... politically speaking. The school system should NOT be making activists out of their students. Parents can raise their children to be activists, schools should just inform the students and challenge them to think and reason.
I am so glad I wasn’t raised at the heel of some of these people.
It’s only going to get worse. 😐
That clip was terrifying!
@@cheerwhiner7829 I'm not 100% sure that it is going to get worse. The fact that enrolment has sharply declined and that they're struggling to find a new president is a good sign that people don't want to be caught up in this craziness. The quickest and easiest way to rid schools of this insanity would be to dramatically increase the wages of student educators accross the board. Being a teacher isn't a job that attracts many people nowadays. There's a variety of reasons for this but the biggest reasons are that educators don't have much job security, it's a very stressful job, and it they don't get payed particularly well. If the system is financially beneficial to educators in a big way then a lot of this sentiment that the system needs to be brought crashing down will be cut off at the source.
@@MrDriedanddone The equity-type lessons are going to be taught to elementary kids in the future- they already are in some places. My district didn’t teach them at my school this year, but that will change. The lessons are divisive- that’s the intention and purpose.
I see harm coming down the road. 😐
@@cheerwhiner7829 Australia too. My daughter hates wearing boys clothes but the school us 'gender neutral' so she gets to wear tshirt and shorts. Part of their assignment is also to change the words of the National Anthem which might be part of the 'destroy the establishment' agenda.
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.
They complained that they felt "dehumanized" there at Evergreen. Yep, they learned that lesson so well, they're passing it on, by dehumanizing others.
dede4004 Also if someone referred to me as female bodied I would feel dehumanized.
Tee Kaybe They also often say “we need more bodies here”. Its very creepy
It is creepy. That is is kinda how serial killers talk about their victims.
Bill Barry, was thinking the same thing.
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.
Yep, these people are actually insane.
Jamil blatantly lied. In one scene he compliments people on barricading the doors with furniture. Two scenes later he’s claiming he doesn’t approve of that and it’s “some anarchist sheet”, binch you’re on camera
@@snusnumcgee9843 And in the scene in between those, he admits to another activist that there are no police coming and that he intentionally started that rumor to get the kids to barricade in the first place.
This is Marxism in a nutshell - the manipulative sociopaths use the philosophy + well-meaning intentions of others to jump right in and climb to the top.
Emily Jones good catch. He’s a true psychopath. And according to Benjamin, George Bridges rewarded him with a leadership role on some council or something after all of this
It really blew my mind also that these kids thought they were the rational ones???? As I've watched these videos I just thought these kids were hateful racist self rightouse bunch of over grown toddlers, but the more I watch the more I realize these actions are a product of the environment they are in. This is a reaping of what these college professors and deans have sown. Higher education is nothing more then brainwashing propaganda pushing centers. The professors are so over educated that they have no idea what real life is all about. So if I were a parent or one of these kids I would be highly upset that I've paid thousands to educate my child into a over grown toddler who thinks they are a victim because they live in a country that affords them the ability to cry about racism that is actually looked down on by most of the decent people in america And all you got is a debt and a kid less educated then when they went to this school. SHAME ON YOU EVERGREEN STAFF
"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.
I'd like to drop these kids, one by one, in the alaskan wilderness, and see if that crap would work on a polar bear.
@strontiumXnitrate I'm told polar bears come from a wasteland so barren, that, lo, they have no fucks to give.
@@montycantsin8861 Yup. Canada.
Can you imagine being spoken to like that and just standing there silent?
Never!
@@Bingewatchingmediacontent wow thats is insane. I was jumped on two occasions, as a kid, by a group of minorities, and fought back instantaneously. Never once did I think I was the problem.
@@Bingewatchingmediacontent mad respect for you , I can only imagine how hard that must of been.
Yeah no. If they had told me leaving meant not being an "ally," my response would be "k bye." Nobody tells me what I have to believe.
@@Bingewatchingmediacontent No I am not lol I can only imagine how hard it is to challenge a thought that your entire family, friends, community pushed. Takes a lot of intelligence, courage and a ton of integrity to do that ! Cudos !
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.
You should see the winning "debate" team at the 2014 Cross Examination Debate Association national championship.
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I've been around 1/2 as long as you and I feel like the world has gone topsy-turvy. I can't imagine how you feel.
@@HarryBalzak I thought that video must have been a joke until I researched it further!
@@blakestormcrow6275 Same here. I was perturbed when i realized that was real and they actually won.
12:42 George saying, "Jamil, I need to pee," is the absolute highlight of this entire documentary series.
Yeah, that level of supplication was intense.
Students: you need to ensure our safety!
Also students: how dare you try to stop our dance party on a structurally-unsound balcony!
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.
This is not circular logic, but rather a Kafka trap.
@@kilroy1964 I guess you are right. It's more of a "rock and a hard place" scenario or a "skylla & charybdis" situation.
it's also a double-bind, no matter what you do you lose. I think cults do this too
Pure narcissist gaslighting. Dangerous as fuck. Brett and Heather ultimately dodged a bullet by getting out.
17:18 “it’s your job to educate us.” Oh how they have failed.
But, in an earlier video, there was a clip of them angrily yelling "There's NOTHING you can teach us". Ironic
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Maybe because the lessons at University were the same as in playschool?
Andrew, true statement. I vascilate back and forth from being angry at the students to feeling sorry for them at the same time. But, I am FURIOUS at the so called academic "professors" who fed them so much garbage.
"You take credits away! We paid for those credits!"
No you paid for the opportunity to EARN those credits... not to have them handed to you!
If you could harness cringe and convert it to electricity, you could power Hong Kong with the content in these videos.
😂😂😂😂
Well said 😂
Wonderful imagery! :-)
Episode 13 and I still don't know what their demands are.
I'm not convinced they do either
The level of intelligence is outrageously low. People don't even know the words they are using.
I'm really not sure that intelligence is the problem. These kids have been brainwashed, they're part of a cult, and being part of that cult prevents them from using their actually not that low intelligence.
Joseph Connolly and the president is no different as well.
can you imagine how low the entrance requirement must be?
the hysteria may have been fueled in part by the fact some students did not have academic capacities necessary for the rigors of that particular college. I suspect this problem will get worse as higher performing students decline to attend universities for which the economic prospects are middling and those same universities continue to fill seats despite the decline in student credentials. Evergreen itself now has a 97 percent acceptance rate as I understand it. Having heard Bret Weinstein speak several times now, it seems likely some students would not be able to follow a course taught by him.
@Le Spam Smart people (I define as higher IQ for this purpose, of course wisdom and IQ are certainly not one and the same) may either find some emotional need satisfied by the cult, or they may feel they will benefit from the cult in some fashion (as Yuri Bezmenov said, "they think they will come to power").
-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.
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?
Do you think George Bridges walks through the empty Evergreen campus and says to himself "I didn't do anything wrong."
Actually he says 'I dindo nutt'n, y'all'. Fact.
His biggest mistake was treating them like adults when they aren't.
@@frosksdeadteeth5163 I disagree. Treating college kids like adults is how they grow into adults. Which means responsibility and _consequences_ for their actions. He’s still treating them like a poor parent treats children. He’s letting them have their tantrums, never punishes, and even affirms their nonsense. In many ways, he created these little monsters.
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.
I would say she is probably a JOY to be around 🙄
I've heard her title is "professor passing"
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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.
As a Southerner, my culture is not their goddamn prom dress.
Perhaps they didn't have that in childhood and all this projection tells us that's just what they need - mommies and daddies. However, university administration is not the place to find it.
This is the same question I just had watching this series. What is up with "y'all"? Why is everyone using this word instead of formal language. Is this from some African class?
De-humanizing pale folks, folks that disagree, and anyone “ different “! Pale passing is such a smug thing to say! Most mixed folks ai know are treated the worst!
Painful to watch, but necessary.
Absolutely!
I literally had to pause several times to stand up and walk in a circle holding my head.
Jamil: “I can’t speak for everyone here”
*proceeds to give orders, organize, and be a figurehead of the protest constantly*
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 🤦♀️
I was wondering about this. She said they “take away their credits.” Does she mean if you fail?
@@whimsyasmr1393 They seem to be under the impression that you get credits by paying and not having them means they've been taken away as a punishment.
Jamil sounds like he is holding a hostage/kidnapping. Like on a serious level.
Mark my words, he'll show up in politics within the next two years.
I'm all for anti-racism but Jamil should have been shut down from the beginning. That was crazy!
@@hobbabobba7912 he should be in jail. He’s mild is destructive as f***.
@@hobbabobba7912 anti racism is just rhetoric. It’s being used to divide our country.
he literally is.
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.
Drawn in and manipulated….like Van Jones apparently was.
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.
Pulling this sort of shit was exactly what the corrupt among the faculty were training those students for. Not getting jobs, not contributing to their communities and nation, but to serve as expendable foot soldiers in a neomarxist revolution. The only thing that didn't go to plan was who they turned their ire on. But you can bet your bottom dollar that Bridges and co. are working to fix that without losing this batch of conscripts as we speak. Continue giving them the time and financing to work on this and we'll be seeing Evergreen-style ideological zombies on every street corner.
@For Redwall You've got the right idea, but it goes far deeper than that. The entire "critical theory / social justice / intersectionality" movement was designed by French Marxists to appeal to the supremacist element of nearly every identity group and pit them all against each other. Thus (they believe) jump-starting the "glorious global workers' revolution" Saint Karl promised them... Never mind the untold MILLIONS that will die if it works. As they're so fond of saying "you can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs".
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.
Hey how you been?
@@BenjaminABoyce messaged you on IG!
The inmates are running the asylum!!
Was their any repercussions at all? They basically kidnapped the staff and deans, right? That's a felony, lol.
It's not a crime when a libtard does it.
nope. they actually made that Jamil guy part of the council that is in charge of re writing the student code of conduct, which they will later, if potentially facing consequences will use to make any infraction void retroactively as its now something that is okay in the newly revised student code of conduct.
Keep watching to find out!! (I don’t know the answer, but I can’t wait to find out)
...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!
The thing is, it was never really about Bret's emails. They just needed an(other) excuse to create an uproar. Bret was their sacrificial lamb, however we can see that some of these students had been creating chaos long before the email controversy.
In for my daily dose of crazy. Love these videos, good sir.
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.
This is the first one I had to stop and take a break from.
more backbones in a school of jellyfish than in the evergreen faculty
"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
Imagines Goerge Bridges sitting back gloating: "Fly my beauties, Fly!"
Absolutely! He's the cult "leader".
As Weinstein slips away, “Catch him ye fool!”
More like a cell leader, because this crap is on nearly every university in the western world right now. Worse, as Ben showed in the beginning of this chapter, they're spreading their indoctrinators down to the earliest levels of our education system.
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 indeed noticed that. What he's doing is evil and manipulative, but I can see why people are so easily persuaded by him.
Then he lies and tells Bridges he “doesn’t know” who is ordering the blockades!
He's a narcissist. Very similar to cult leader Stefan Molyneux.
4 year old activists???!!!
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.
Until the day we have everything we ever wrote on the internet examined and we are held accountable for dumb shit we wrote drunk in 2006....
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.
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.
"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!
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.
Ironically, this is a consequence of the conservative policies. Everything can be bought, a college degree, Greenland, ...
You're absolutely correct about how it's _supposed_ to work. Sadly it seems like a lot of colleges are more of a direct transaction than a meritocracy or a source of education/skills nowadays. You can buy your way to a degree without any sense or work ethic, but you can't work/think your way to a degree without lots and lots of money at your disposal.
Yuri Bezmanov warned us about this in 1983...
I doubt anyone, Soviet or American, had any idea what the effect of active measures would be this far into the future.
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.
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.
L35 in Colorado He ordered them to do other things too.
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
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.
I have empathy for the students that couldn't go to the library because of this mess. The students that actually did their studies and didn't get involved with this mess. No the school has a rep for this kind of thing.
Could have really used some cat meditations after that.
medication
"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
Armbands seem kinda hard to size for different people and cloths maybe just sew on a gold star ⭐️ gold stars are nice
"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...
Yeah this is why the Montessori schools are so insidious. They have some good ideas like have kids of various ages interact and being more active physically but ultimately just make kids fall behind.
@@puffball4484 I don't know. This "teaching is political" is just crazy, but I think the idea of children having choices in the way they learn (not full control though) or having different ages in the same class is really great. This intro is more ambiguous than what happens at Evergreen.
@@taurtue yeah but a lot of these people are in the Montessori schools. That school in the video would likely qualify as a Montessori school.
That's right folks, the people who know nothing should be the ones deciding what the schools teach them! It makes sense when we tell you it does! XD
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.
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
How in the hell did they get away with unlawfully imprisoning people, and rioting? Isn't that kidnapping?
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.
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😕
For the love of God does that poor dog ever get a day off
No. 😥
@strontiumXnitrate - it might be in bad taste, but it's freaking hilarious!!! 😅😅👍
@strontiumXnitrate It tasted great to Naima
@strontiumXnitrate
I scrolled a long way to find any jokes about eating the dog... You saved me from having to post my own 😂
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.
“Uncomfortability” is a word that triggers me.
Loving the series.
Jamil: Do y’all need anything?
George: I have to pee.
Jamil: hold it.
Holding people and preventing them from leaving is a good way to really get someone seriously hurt! WOW!
And on the 8th day, God created cringe, and called it Evergreen State, and it was good
Benjamin- thanks for putting the clip of Jonathan Haidt at the end. I have a lot more understanding of the whole thing now.
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
Person: I need to be able to leave because I have children.
Student: THAT"S RACIST!!!!
I would have busted out some music and encouraged the kids to dance on the balcony.
Bridges saying this was "a structural issue" was priceless.
@@jungatheart6359 structural racism.
“We wanna see the weight limits” the weight limits are two Naima Lowes if they’re standing still, one if she’s dancing
Anyone remember the KC hotel "tea dance" walkway collapse? I was watching TV when it happened...you could see crushed bodies in the rubble.
@@carlawhite2576 I remember that that was horrible.
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.
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.
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.
Can any kid speak properly anymore? Books were falling out of popularity when I was a kid in the 80s. As soon as the internet got big I noticed the deplorable writing skills of 2/3rds of people writing anything. TV and internet have been rotting our brains for a long, long, loooong time. The parents who have kids now grew up glued to cable TV and never went to libraries or wrote letters. Their kids have the internet stapled to their faces from birth. All the entertainment you could ever waste your time on is there 24 hours a day. No need to write anything properly, no need to learn grammar, no need to be informed beyond your own personal interests.
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I never want to hear the word 'y'all' again.
Some of the faculty have Stockholm syndrome.
Some excerpts from “The Coddling of the American Mind” would be apt
They devoted a whole chapter to these events.
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.
These people would go mad if they'd read Nietzsche.
"Even at the age of 4, they can become activists." -- future Evergreen students
I didn't know that success could be guaranteed.
That's literally false imprisonment and a felony
Well I’m no rocket surgeon but I’m pretty sure those doors they blocked at the 3:00 mark with waist high furniture open out so.... yeah.... but I get your point👍
@@bigretardhalo you're definitely not a lot of things
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.
As a former sjw who was fully into this shit and used this same language and thought process - I have ptsd from it and am still having to unlearn these thought processes. I didn't know any better. The things they say make sense. If someone had sat me down and told me that my problem was that I fundmentally didn't feel cared for and needed to go to therapy and find real friends not take my frustrations out as an "activist", I would have been better served. But no one did. It took 7 years for me to figure out it was my shit because no one cared about me enough to tell me I was wrong. I had no healthy adults in my life, and no healthy Peers. Essentially I believe this mentality is caused by lack of authentic community Care. It's ironically what they want so much. And they truly need it. Just not in the way they think.
“If you can make them believe absurdities; you can make them commit atrocities “ -Voltaire or someone
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
0 concrete examples
This is the 28th month of me investigating this, and all I’ve been able to find are lies and obfuscations.
@@BenjaminABoyce patience of a saint. Keep up the good work.
@@BenjaminABoyce even they don’t know what they’re whining about
This video needs a bell and a counter for every time someone says "Y'all".
They make it sound like they just got back from 2 tours of Nam.
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!
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.
I'd like to thank Niami Lowe for not eating it's dog.
7:48 is one of the most twisted moments
When did it become ok to make others hostages
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.
Ah, i was wondering when my next dose of pure cancer was coming. Thanks Benjamin, you're doing the lords work.
You did such an amazing job on this. I can’t believe this doesn’t have more views, this deserves a an award!
“We’ve been sitting on our asses for forty years”
We know you have, Naima. Truest thing you’ve said.
That was incredibly painful to watch. I can only imagine having to edit it all. Good on you man.
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.
'If you want to leave, go ahead, but you should not under any circumstances leave'
This is crazy to me. George should be fired. I wouldn't want my child to go there!!!
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 exchange t 12:43 is breath taking. The president of the University cant even go pee. JESUS the man looks so weak.
he s weaker than what it look, a true spitting pot, you can remove the shit from your toilet with george hairs, he's a true waste of skin. He s probably reading my comment right now thinking I overestimate him, and I probably am
@@vaninaboschet5689 Do you think George or anyone from Evergreen watch these videos on from Ben Boyce?.
Amazing video. Really first rate. Really great use of Jonathan Haidt at the end to let us all know exactly where you stand
7:40 OMG, call in Batman! I've spotted the Penguin!
😂😂🤣
Ive been watching you since your first video on the Evergreen College. I knew that what happened there was Orwellian and almost unbelievably cringy. I didn't know just HOW brainwashed those kids were (are). Now having seen the this series up to here im just like, jesus, their teachers should be charged with abuse. Racist emotional idiocy aside, all this language of "bodies" instead of referring to people as PEOPLE is extremely troubling, though probably essential to propogating their communist world view. That intro documentary/news piece clip or whatever is so telling and disturbing. These people, the most dangerous racists in the country, are teaching kids to view everything through race--a direct inversion of Rev King. And i say dangerous because the future implications to a society which regards race as the defining attribute are not promising. And all this is being sold as PROGRESSIVE.