Campus Argument Goes Viral As Evergreen State Is Caught In Racial Turmoil (HBO)
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Cited as footage of the Evergreen controversy in debates about campus politics.
What it is
A VICE News report on the 2017 protests at Evergreen State College, including the confrontation involving professor Bret Weinstein.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2017 to 2019.
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Cites stcredzero · 2017-09 · on “We Are At War For A Free And Open Internet”
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]
Cites Reedx · 2018-05 · on “Pornography and the Butterfly Effect”
> 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'
Critical manfredo · 2019-05 · on “SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships”
> 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 bet