They’re Stealing Our Black Essence
Meanwhile, in the world of deep thoughts and scholarly devotion:
A new video has surfaced of students this past week at Evergreen State College yelling and ranting about everything from “racist white teachers” and “white-ass administrators” to “black power!” during a so-called “meeting” with President George Bridges and other college administrators. Apparently, the activists are not pleased that this recording made its way to the internet at large. One of the demands listed by Evergreen students… is that something be done to resolve the “theft” of the video: “We demand that the video created for Day of Absence and Day of Presence that was stolen by white supremacists and edited to expose and ridicule the students and staff be taken down by the administration by this Friday.”
stolen by white supremacists
I must say, if I was a white supremacist, I’d have stolen this video for my website.
Note the demand that all faculty and staff undergo “anti-racist” “competence training.” Moments later, one of the ‘protestors’ asks, “Are there any black folks who need water in here?”
Watching the video, all I can think of is toddlers having a tantrum: the screaming, the dancing, the shaking hysteria, the sense that they are absolutely loving it…
BTW well done to Prof. Weinstein for standing up to this bull(ying)shit.
Around 4:40:
Yes, the smug black student is the “ancestor” of the older people she’s lecturing. She, personally, is the original upright human. “We’re not simpletons,” says she.
the screaming, the dancing, the shaking hysteria, the sense that they are absolutely loving it…
If you wanted a mental image of the world’s most pathological kindergarten, the video above would be a pretty good template. And if the ‘protestors’ – who alternate between ostentatious weeping and mob thuggery – actually wanted to inspire racist feeling, and make onlookers despair at the state of the supposed black intelligentsia at Evergreen, this video – of their own words and behaviour – would be a very good way to go about it. And yes, at times you can actually hear the titillation, the sense of trying it on, with each attempt to go a bit further and be a little more gratuitously offensive, a little more racist. Like a child testing parental boundaries.
Because no-one is pushing back.
Having to tell someone that you are not a simpleton probably means you are. <Fredo Voice>”I’m smart!</Fredo Voice> …and we all know how well it turned out for him…
I have to admit that I haven’t watched this video, although if it’s what I think it is then I have seen it via Twitter, along with lots of other videos here are the same petulant children screaming over, and over, and over again.
My first thought is, when is anyone at any of these institutions going to stand up to them and act like an adult? I’m losing any sympathy I may have had because university administrators and lecturers have made this rod for their own back, and I can’t say I’m not enjoying watching it being used.
I know, the Discipline Room is that way…
the video… was stolen by white supremacists and edited to expose and ridicule the students
They’re doing that all on their own.
They’re doing that all on their own.
Yes, but the attempt to displace blame for how they seem is, like so much else, revealing.
It resembles Phnom Penh in 1975.
Astute. Although there’s more race-fueled malice this time around. These children have been conditioned to hate whites.
Another difference: we Americans are armed to the teeth. These ragebots can act out all they want on college grounds, but they’ll be in for a rude awakening if they ever take it past the safe-space tantrum stage.
The Google reviews of TESC as they call it, T for The I presume, are interesting. Especially those from months/years before the recent exposure. One liberal arts student from four months ago gives it two stars and says
Plenty of comments from 5-7 years ago describing a hippie world and weak academics outside of math/science. One points out that the math/science classes can be triggering because such faculty are oblivious to the mindset of those kinds of students. Notable alumni include Matt Groenig.
Oh, and their mascot is the geoduck, descibed as a “penis clam” by some also of Mike Rowe fame.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoduck
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0849908/
Another difference: we Americans are armed to the teeth.
And yet these little tyrants go to school on your money anyway. They just get the state to do the dirty work. And we all comply.
Oh, and their mascot is the geoduck, described as a “penis clam”
I’ve nothing to add, I just thought it bore repeating.
We built these cities, we had civilization way before you ever had … comin’ out your caves.”
We wuz kangz! Presumably this was at a time when the laws of physics were different and it was possible to chant, dance and gibber stuff into existence.
And this little gem at about 3:03: “Is there any Black folks that need water in here?” How inclusive.
the video created for Day of Absence and Day of Presence that was stolen by white supremacists
Wait. They thought any of this would make them look good…?
OK, how much does President Bridges and his senior staff get a year? Because no amount of money would keep me in a job where I was ridiculed by the ungrateful little bastards, not even a couple of million.
Mass expulsions, George. Are you a man, or a mouse? Squeak up!
How’s that affirmative action working out?
A lot of this, I think, is due to the fact that many people, especially in academia, are reluctant to challenge racism and racial bullying when black people indulge in it. As if those indulging in it, provided they have brown skin, should be held to a much lower standard, if any standard at all. Some will tie themselves in moral knots pretending it didn’t happen, even when it’s happening right in front of them. As we’ve seen, quite vividly,
OK, how much does President Bridges and his senior staff get a year? Because no amount of money would keep me in a job where I was ridiculed by the ungrateful little bastards, not even a couple of million.
Mass expulsions, George. Are you a man, or a mouse? Squeak up!
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A lot of this, I think, is due to the fact that many people, especially in academia, are reluctant to challenge racism and racial bullying when black people indulge in it.
Y’all are assuming they have someplace else to go. They’re academics. Their options are mostly limited to academia. A CV looks very different from a resume, having reviwed a few. And once you are associated with a story like this that one can easily run across on the internet doing the most basic DD, you are as radioactive as your students. It’s Stockholm Syndrome on steroids at this point.
We built these cities, we had civilization way before you ever had … comin’ out your caves.
I see. So there existed magnificent African cities and civilization (for which there is no archeological evidence), but all were wiped out by knuckle dragging honkey cave men. OK, I am guessing that idea wasn’t completely thought through.
Meanwhile, Deep Thoughts from one of the ringleaders, “The first time I took an African American history class, I started self harming. I found it completely overwhelming, just trying to deal with the pain caused by constantly thinking about the long list of traumas Black people have faced in this country.” This comes from the column “POC Talk”.
Let us meet the authoress, one Felix Chrome (sure):
Person of Color. OK pale pink is a color, but I am thinking she is missing a fundamental concept of The Struggle™.
This is what a commitment to diversity instead of quality along with complete PC subjugation to the leftist talking points: utter chaos. By all means,we need more of this everywhere.
For a sense of perspective, Evergreen State College has been referred to as “Cannabis U” for years.
Science classes at Evergreen? I can’t imagine anything beyond “Organic Hydroponics”.
WTP,
Notable alumni include Matt Groenig.
And Rachel Corrie, aka “St Pancake”.
Link
Farnsworth,
I see. So there existed magnificent African cities and civilization (for which there is no archeological evidence), but all were wiped out by knuckle dragging honkey cave men. OK, I am guessing that idea wasn’t completely thought through.
It’s part of a popular American black mythology created W.E.B. DuBois – an “Out of Africa” theory – and concocted nearly out of thin air, loosely based on Napoleonic-era French Freemasons’ complete misunderstanding pharaonic hieroglyphs (believing they were magic symbols and represented technology that is now lost to the world) – and assumed because Egypt existed on the continent of Africa the people could only have been sub-Saharan blacks – despite the fact that the Egyptians always depicted themselves as brown, with Hittites and Greeks as white and sub-Saharan Nubians as black.
I’m sorry, but I have no sympathy for the professor or the administration of the university at this point. If they haven’t got the sense to leave these idiots in the hall and go down the pub (or do something else more worthwhile of their time) then they deserve all the derision being heaped on them. He should have walked out ages ago.
created by
(I have always been good a proofreading others’ work, but my own, not so much.)
(Oh, I give up. Maybe more coffee will help…)
I have always been good a proofreading others’ work, but my own, not so much.
You should start a blog.
What kind of prick goes to university and starts making lists of *demands*?
What kind of prick goes to university and starts making lists of *demands*?
The kind of pricks in the video, I should imagine.
The Internet never forgets. Taking down one video will not help. In fact, the hysterical reaction has now garnered sufficient notice that aforesaid video will have been saved/viewed in umpteen locations (aka Streisand effect). I’m surprised these students didn’t realise that.
… On reflection, I’m not surprised.
You should start a blog.
Sorry for spamming the thread. I’ll try to limit myself to one comment at a time in the future.
I think I’ll drop some change in the “swear jar” as penance. 😉
Sorry for spamming the thread.
It’s all good. One day I’ll publish Dave’s Most Gripping Typos, featuring my more hilarious and deflating blunders.
swear jar
Now there’s an idea. 🙂
American trivia: “geoduck” is correctly pronounced “gooey-duck,” and the school’s fight–er, cooperative non-racist non-sexist non-ablist recreation–song, begins ” Go geoducks go!” Which makes more sense than what those overgrown toddlers were blathering on about.
I may have missed it, but do these victims of oppression provide actual examples or other evidence that Evergreen is the center of racial animus? Or are they just pulling stuff out of their entitled, middle-class asses?
This seems like a good time to ask: does anyone else like old books, really old books, published before ca. 1970? I love them. They’re so clear. An author didn’t have to spend 12 paragraphs explaining why a Stone Age lifestyle in the Amazon is just as comfortable as an industrialized lifestyle, because any dern fool could see that wasn’t so. ( Although there was a lady from an Amazon tribe who married an American, ended up disliking the American ’70’s lifestyle, and returned to the Amazon. But even she didn’t say industrialism was worse overall, just that she found it too complicated, lonely, and noisy.)
An old-time author could just state his piece. He or she didn’t have to convolute his or her prose, nor did he or she have to waste a lot of his or her, and the readers’, time carefully avoiding pronouns so he or she didn’t offend his or her 22-year-old feminist editor by failing to insert one “or she” into an 800-page manuscript, because the Deity knows women are too dumb to understand that “He who hesitates is lost” also applies to us.
I am currently enjoying 20th-century sorceress, or mystic, or something like that, Dion Fortune. She’s great. She writes about New Age woo-woo as if it were as practical as plumbing. Makes you want to sign up for the next term at Hogwarts.
…do these victims of oppression provide actual examples or other evidence that Evergreen is the center of racial animus?
Evidence? The president of the college is white! What more do you need?
do these victims of oppression provide actual examples or other evidence that Evergreen is the center of racial animus?
When not using mob harassment against members of staff – by surrounding them, blocking their exits (and lying about it), and screaming racial abuse at them – and when not complaining about their spiteful little drama being seen for what it is, the ‘protestors’ are also oppressed by the expectation that their academic work should be done on time, or indeed at all.
Evidence is a racist, sexist concept. They FEEL the college is [noun]ist. That’s enough, you -ist pig.
… does anyone else like old books, really old books, published before ca. 1970?
I was born into what would now be thought rather austere circumstances. My parents both worked long hours in a variety of jobs and literally had little time for reading, but nonetheless managed to teach me to read by the age of three using a combination of Aesop’s Fables and the Brer Rabbit stories. Other than library books, all I had was Arthur Mee’s Children’s Encyclopaedia, which was a glorious feast but already very dated and out of favour by the 1960s. Its discovery in a home with young children would these days occasion their removal by social workers and a public enquiry. I can’t recommend it highly enough.
I have an old songbook along those lines, containing Old Boy Noah and other songs about wine and knives and cripples and fire.
students… yelling and ranting about everything from “racist white teachers” and “white-ass administrators”
The only racists I can see are the students.
This seems like a good time to ask: does anyone else like old books, really old books, published before ca. 1970? I love them. They’re so clear.
Last time I was back in the UK I got hold of my mother’s old recipe books from the 1960s. Some of the handwritten recipes in there are from her mother, my grandmother, and probably date from the 1940s or 1950s. What I noticed is how straight to the point the recipes are: they tell you what ingredients are needed and what you do with them, no woffle about “making things nice and fluffy” or demands that you use “fresh, organic parsley”. And because they’re not written by a celebrity there is no need for the author to spend half the book going on about themselves.
ostensible student near the end talks about “My ancestors were brought here as slaves, your ancestors were not, they came here of their own free-will”
What presumption! Many melanin-enriched people in America do not have any American-slave ancestors and many people of pallor DO.
::::ahem:::: Irish
(my family was brought here against their will in 1697 and sold to work on a Virginia plantation. Took them approximately 60 years to gain their freedom…bet that would be a shock to the Darker-than-Thou snowflake)
Re: Old Books
A year ago, I moved my mother from her home to a senior living apartment. In the process of clearing out her stuff, I came across a box of our old children’s books, which I rescued. I have a 1940ish edition of Little Black Sambo, which caused raised eyebrows when I was a kid in the ’60s. (In first grade, ca. 1967, my mom suggested I take another book for “show and read” day at school.) I can’t decide whether to erect a shrine to it in protest of political correctness or secret it away, like a radio in occupied Europe, to avoid the possibility of reeducation.
BTW, merely thinking about the title causes me to crave pancakes.
Washington state has no history of slavery and until very recently was probably 95% White. So why do they choose to live in such an awful racist White state?
I have a 1940ish edition of Little Black Sambo,
I remember in high school (68-72) a fave for cheap, good breakfast food after football games was Sambo’s Restaurant. (there’s only one left in operation in Santa Barbara)
ostensible student
That.
TESC has been a hotbed of the most extreme forms of hippie lunacy for decades now. In a sense, the rest of academia is just now catching up to it.
I have my mom’s 1952 Good Housekeeping Cookbook. It has all sorts of straightforward information: a whole chapter listing what to do with leftovers, a chapter on garnishes, a chapter on cooking for one, a chapter on cooking for two, a chapter on pressure cooking ( the crockpot hadn’t come along yet), a chapter on marketing. There’s a very useful chapter on how best to carve various meats and fowl at the table, called (quelle horreur!) “When He Carves.”
When you use this book you are saddened by what’s been lost. There are recipes involving raw eggs, which are no longer safe to consume in the U.S., and paragraphs assuring the reader than any meat with a U.S. Department of Agriculture stamp has been inspected by same and is safe to eat. This was true in 1952 but isn’t now. Now the meat packer inspects his own meat and reports the results to USDA. That’s much more efficient, you see.
I had “Little Black Sambo” too, and don’t recall much about it, but I am quite sure it took place in India, not Africa? His parents who sent him on the errand, whatever it was, were Mumbo and Jumbo, and after the tigers chased each other round the tree until they turned into butter, the family happily chowed down on pancakes. So Sambo outwits the tigers–the Indian tigers–and everybody lives happily ever after. I don’t understand why this is considered insulting to persons of black African ancestry. Shrug.
@Darleen
My dad worked a year for the Military Industrial Complex in L.A. during the mid-’60s. Sambo’s was our go-to post-church restaurant for Sunday lunch. I think the one we patronized was on Brookhurst(?) in Anaheim.