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Your description of Bret Weinstein and Evergreen is substantially inaccurate, perhaps because you read Bret Weinstein's dishonest description of it (linked below).

There was no "no-white-people-on-campus" day. There was an optional off-campus field trip for a seminar aimed at people living with a white perspective.

Bret Weinstein was not fired. He resigned with $500K severance as part of a settlement agreement arising from his lawsuit against the school for failing to protect him from students who verbally harassed him.

Primary Source: https://app.leg.wa.gov/committeeschedules/Home/Document/1705...

Long-term summary of events: https://www.theolympian.com/news/local/education/article1750...

Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bret_Weinstein#Evergreen_State...

Likewise, your description of the Gordon Klein incident was grossly inaccurate, even compared to the right-wing NYPost's version of the events:

https://nypost.com/2020/06/10/ucla-suspends-professor-for-re...

He was suspended for unprofessionally mocking his students.



quoting from your wikipedia link. ...

> the event asked white participants to stay off campus

That by itself is illiberal and ludicrous.


Sure, the student organized event asked that white participants who supported this misguided movement stay off campus. Sure, that's a pretty dumb thing to ask of anyone and Bret Weinstein has no obligation to adhere to it, and furthermore adhering to it is pretty dumb...

But that's not the college's doing nor is it the college's responsibility.


The idea of a no fill-in-the-skin-color day is unbelievably racist.




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