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Baconator

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40. Except when you 'choose' not to leave...

Tue Sep 19, 2017, 02:58 AM

Sep 2017

Last edited Tue Sep 19, 2017, 12:25 PM - Edit history (1)

... They show up en masse and shout you down.

There was video... Maybe you missed it...

PS. The idea itself is racist victimizing bullshit too btw...

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Evergreen professor at center of protests resigns; college will pay $500,000 [View all] alp227 Sep 2017 OP

No word on the professor exboyfil Sep 2017 #1

What a dumpster fire of a school... Baconator Sep 2017 #2

Their enrollment was down 5 % this year Yupster Sep 2017 #7

Evergreen or Mizzou? Baconator Sep 2017 #8

Evergreen Yupster Sep 2017 #35

It shouldn't be a negative mark. My husband had some great grad students from Evergreen. pnwmom Sep 2017 #21

The professor is far from right-wing, wtf makes you think he was? romanic Sep 2017 #23

He's the kind of "progressive" that would argue that we shouldn't say "Black Lives Matter," pnwmom Sep 2017 #53

Yeah, sorry, but if I run a company that makes tires or appraise insurance claims Yupster Sep 2017 #36

Don't be silly. Tires are made in China. hunter Sep 2017 #102

He is a Bernie support and an outspoken supporter for Occupy Wall Street hack89 Sep 2017 #63

He's an "All Lives Matter" kind of progressive then. He doesn't understand pnwmom Sep 2017 #65

No. He opposes moral bullying hack89 Sep 2017 #66

He ENGAGED in moral bullying. The invitation was to participate by meeting in a building pnwmom Sep 2017 #67

And all he did was express his opinion to the administration. hack89 Sep 2017 #68

Oh right. Like no one exercising his right to free speech could ever be bullying. pnwmom Sep 2017 #69

So stating a personal opinion is bullying if it offends anyone? hack89 Sep 2017 #73

I can see having such a discussion when classes aren't in session during the day cabot Sep 2017 #89

It was a good school. This faculty member deserved to be fired for helping to trash it. n/t pnwmom Sep 2017 #9

Weinstein should be fired? Baconator Sep 2017 #12

Not under faculty rules, no. But I'm glad he resigned. Good riddance. pnwmom Sep 2017 #15

My husband had some excellent grad students with degrees from Evergreen. pnwmom Sep 2017 #18

Not anymore... Baconator Sep 2017 #20

It is the white students who were behaving like victims, not the black students. pnwmom Sep 2017 #28

I'll help Yupster Sep 2017 #37

No one TOLD anyone. The building they suggested interested white students could meet in pnwmom Sep 2017 #60

The correct response. "Invited" or "told". Inkfreak Sep 2017 #95

I agree SonofDonald Sep 2017 #83

Weinstein impresses me as an enormous attention hound. jcmaine72 Sep 2017 #3

He was eaten by his own... Baconator Sep 2017 #10

He was treating black students and their issues like shit, and encouraging white students pnwmom Sep 2017 #16

Exactly! jcmaine72 Sep 2017 #17

The students were acting like entitled scumbags... Baconator Sep 2017 #19

The students weren't kicking a single person off campus. The protesting students and this professor pnwmom Sep 2017 #22

That's the point... Baconator Sep 2017 #25

They weren't kicking ANY white people off campus. Period. pnwmom Sep 2017 #27

Except when you 'choose' not to leave... Baconator Sep 2017 #40

Open your mind a little. If white students who stayed on campus... brush Sep 2017 #80

I know what it's from... Baconator Sep 2017 #87

Wasn't it voluntary for the white students to not come to campus? brush Sep 2017 #92

Is it really voluntary if you choose not to go... Baconator Sep 2017 #93

It's college not work. brush Sep 2017 #94

It is if you are faculty (who helped facilitate this terrible idea)... Baconator Sep 2017 #97

I made my points in my other posts in response to your not apparently getting... brush Sep 2017 #98

Ahh... Baconator Sep 2017 #99

Whatever, dude. It was voluntary for white students to see the other side of the coin... brush Sep 2017 #103

Ok "dude"... Baconator Sep 2017 #105

You keep typing VOLUNTARILY in caps RhodeIslandOne Sep 2017 #29

You're wrong. I wouldn't have objected to individual white students going to class that day. pnwmom Sep 2017 #30

Do you think the black students "organizing the event" would feel the same? RhodeIslandOne Sep 2017 #31

YES. The building for the white students only held 200 students and they had to ENROLL pnwmom Sep 2017 #85

How could you say leaving campus was voluntary? Yupster Sep 2017 #38

You don't know anything about the real situation there. You must be watching too much Fox news, pnwmom Sep 2017 #39

Maybe all the video of it was photoshopped Yupster Sep 2017 #41

Yeah, it was sliced and diced. It didn't show what happened BEFORE the events recorded there. pnwmom Sep 2017 #42

That author is going to have a rough time in life... Baconator Sep 2017 #43

That article was written by three respected faculty members at Evergreen pnwmom Sep 2017 #45

Based on that article alone... Baconator Sep 2017 #48

Snowflakes? You have a very strange definition of the word. pnwmom Sep 2017 #58

As an employer, what this article showed me was Yupster Sep 2017 #57

You know nothing about Evergreen. Why do you even care? nt pnwmom Sep 2017 #59

These 'adults' are going to come out into society at some point... Baconator Sep 2017 #72

What kind of progressive are you? A progressive who thinks black people have a "victim complex" pnwmom Sep 2017 #75

I didn't say black people... Baconator Sep 2017 #86

They were black students. But there were no DEMANDS that anyone participate in the Day of Absence. pnwmom Sep 2017 #88

You're talking about another event... Baconator Sep 2017 #90

Evergreen is a liberal arts college, not a vocational school. LisaM Sep 2017 #101

Maybe not now... Baconator Sep 2017 #106

I have lived 20 minutes from Olympia most of my life Doreen Sep 2017 #4

This professor happened. Good riddance. n/t pnwmom Sep 2017 #11

Students throwing a collective temper tantrum has cost Evergreen State College half a million. Jake Stern Sep 2017 #5

A handful of spoiled white students led by this grandstanding professor. n/t pnwmom Sep 2017 #13

Racist much? NobodyHere Sep 2017 #82

Post removed Post removed Sep 2017 #26

He should've gotten 500 million for dealing with those failures aka students. romanic Sep 2017 #6

You have no idea what you are talking about. He encouraged racist white students pnwmom Sep 2017 #14

Throwing the term "racist" willy-nilly isn't ven smart. romanic Sep 2017 #24

Do you live in Washington? Do you know Evergreen College and the students there? pnwmom Sep 2017 #34

What the fuck? Baconator Sep 2017 #46

Do you think taking one sentence out of context proves anything? n/t pnwmom Sep 2017 #49

What was out of context? Baconator Sep 2017 #50

Read the article. The context is the article. n/t pnwmom Sep 2017 #51

If you have nothing to add... Baconator Sep 2017 #52

"All hell broke lose" because the professor led an insurrection against a very reasonable request. pnwmom Sep 2017 #55

In other words, the professor shared an opinion... metalbot Sep 2017 #61

Why aren't you blaming his followers for their response -- which preceded the reaction pnwmom Sep 2017 #62

Ok - I'll play metalbot Sep 2017 #91

Such as....? Baconator Sep 2017 #70

Every post of yours I read you make clear you are not into this being VOLUNTARY.... RhodeIslandOne Sep 2017 #32

You're wrong. You can't point to any post where I said that. I'm only objecting to the pnwmom Sep 2017 #33

You keep saying that word.. Baconator Sep 2017 #44

I KNOW you don't know anything about what was happening at Evergreen. pnwmom Sep 2017 #47

You make the claims... Baconator Sep 2017 #54

I've provided more than one link to articles that accurately describe the situation, pnwmom Sep 2017 #56

The problem is... Dr. Strange Sep 2017 #74

But you are seeing a CLIP out of context. Surely you know the danger of that. pnwmom Sep 2017 #76

But it's not just a clip. Dr. Strange Sep 2017 #79

He resigned. And he won't be missed. He refused to recognize the legitimate grievances that students pnwmom Sep 2017 #84

Let's see.... RhodeIslandOne Sep 2017 #77

When the Left Turns on Its Own hack89 Sep 2017 #64

LOL. Admiringly retweeting libertarian Glenn Greenwald doesn't make him a good progressive. pnwmom Sep 2017 #71

They got off cheap Sen. Walter Sobchak Sep 2017 #78

Weinstein deserves quadruple what he got RelativelyJones Sep 2017 #81

Good. That was straight up bullshit. Inkfreak Sep 2017 #96

Eating their own who aren't pure enough... Baconator Sep 2017 #100

Good. The students were racist and anyone who supports them is too. nt LittleBlue Sep 2017 #104