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Evergreen State College and the repercussions of violent "Social Justice"
Ocram's Razr posted a topic in Current Events
The Evergreen State College has had an annual 'Day of Absence' for years without much controversy. Last year, TESC added a 'Day of Presence.' The 'Day of Absence' voluntarily encourages students of color to stay home from class for a day to give white students a chance to reflect on the achievements of their peers of color and show them how much they are missed. The 'Day of Presence' mandated that white students, professors, and staff stayed home from campus. Those who showed up were subject to abuse: they were rounded up, forced into a single room, forced to ask permission to leave to even use the restroom, and harassed--for some reason, some of the abusive students recorded their harassment on their phones and shared it to social media. I will not post those videos because I believe they do not conform to site rules (vile things were said). There are ways to positively encourage equitability, justice, and peace but this is not the way. A year after the fiasco and Evergreen State College is facing repercussions (as are the worst offenders, who unsurprisingly claim victimhood): Enrollment dropped ~20%, causing a loss of $6 million. http://www.theolympian.com/news/local/education/article210893889.html Students sue the college for $1 million for discrimination http://www.theolympian.com/news/local/education/article180025166.html Professor harrassed and threatened for protesting "Day of Presence" receives a settlement of $500k https://www.seattletimes.com/seattl...-of-protests-resigns-college-will-pay-500000/ 6 professors resigned in total, all getting the severance pay https://crosscut.com/2017/12/evergreen-state-college-racial-protests-professor-resigns-olympia Former chief of Evergreen State College's police sues over discrimination, hostile work environment http://www.cooperpointjournal.com/2...m-of-discrimination-based-on-race-and-gender/ I, for one, am overjoyed at seeing Evergreen's violent SJWs reap the repercussions of their misdeeds. The problem is that this provides evidence to conservatives against public institutions of higher education. Most campuses have safe spaces and safe/moderated debates and many have a professor or two with a strong but usually harmless progressive liberal bias and this goes unnoticed (because it does little harm) but Evergreen College has painted a rather negative picture of colleges, especially Liberal Arts Colleges and public colleges & universities. This is not the only college with students who destroy the "safe spaces" they demand. However, this is the first time I have seen tangible evidence that such behavior won't be tolerated, and at one point I considered going to Evergreen for an environmental science degree (before I decided I wanted to be a chemistry-focused engineer). I have seen examples across the USA of similar (but less severe in most of the cases I noticed) misbehavior. Here is a CNN article: https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/20/us/campus-free-speech-trnd/index.html In most cases, these started out as protests against ultra-conservative speakers, members of the alt-right, and those accused of hate speech. Evergreen College stands out as the protest was over innocent students showing up for class as they regularly do. Apparently, this is called the Mizzou effect: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2017/09/does_a_school_s_enrollment_really_go_down_when_students_protest_en_masse.html
