VICE News
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7:03 · 3.1M views · Jun 16, 2017
A VICE News report on the 2017 protests at Evergreen State College, including the confrontation involving professor Bret Weinstein.
Cited as footage of the Evergreen controversy in debates about campus politics.
3 comments from Hacker News
> That's just religious discrimination cloaked in something less intolerable: academic elitism. I don't necessarily agree with tossing such resumes in the garbage, but it is evidence that universities that enforce religious dogma on their students do suffer a hit to their reputation because of that. > how do you explain the strong performance (and reputation) of private institutions vs. "state schools"? Not every private school is Stanford, MIT, etc. Plenty of private schools are shitty for-profit enterprises (especially online universities) that essentially scam customers out of their money. Purely on the basis of return on investment many studies also conclude that public university is better than private universities. Also most reputable private university do respect freedom of speech and expression to a similar degree as public universities. If you factor in the reactions of students, perhaps even better. When Berkeley hosted Milo Y students rioted, smashed up cars, etc. When Stanford hosted Dinesh D'Souza it was very tame with protesters being non-disruptive. Public universities aren't immune from going off the deep end regardless of constitutional protection: this video Again, the private schools with good reputations do behave almost as if the First Amendment applied to them. The ones that don't generally aren't reputable. So your question is based on false premise.
> so it seems his appeal is primarily limited to the kinda-sorta-far-right. That's actually not the case (just see what kind of questions he gets from his actual audiences to see for yourself). Though on a surface level some of the alt-right likes him because he pisses off SJWs. But they're mistaken to think he's any kind of ally. He's spent much of his career opposing their views and sees both the alt-right and extreme left as big problems. The idea that he's alt-right is really nonsense. He taught for decades at Harvard and the University of Toronto. As he says himself, you can go and look through his hundreds of hours of lectures and try to find where he's promoted anything alt-right. It's quite the opposite. It's largely a false narrative driven by the extreme left, who are trying to dismiss and ruin him because he's critical of what they're doing. This also happened with the progressive professor Bret Weinstein - this video They tried/are trying to destroy him. It's a real problem.
Absolutely no one cares to suppress palatable, well meaning, everyone agrees to it speech. One of the demonstrators from the Bret Weinstein debacle at Evergreen can be seen and heard on the Vice video saying, "...F### your Free Speech!" That is pretty much what the demonstrators and those aligned with them did to Bret Weinstein -- all just for saying, Maybe there's a problem when you demand that certain ethnic groups "absent" themselves? Why would anyone who stands against racism ask that of a Jewish man? [LINK] this video [LINK]