Tomorrow is the one-year anniversary of the day that 50 Evergreen students – students that I had never met – disrupted my class, accusing me of racism and demanding my resignation. I tried to reason with them… Their response surprised me, and it would take months for me to fully understand what had happened. The protestors had no apparent interest in the very dialogue they seemed to invite. I was even more surprised by the protestors’ fervour in shouting down my actual students – some of whom had known me for years. The cruelty and derision reserved for students of colour who spoke in my defence was particularly chilling.
Bret Weinstein on his career-changing encounter with “social justice” Mao-lings. One of these.
Mao-ling. Perfect. Try discussing their position with them and they won’t answer any questions, just impugn your motives for asking a question. It’s like they spent four years at college perfecting the art of “reject first, ask rhetorical questions later.”
Yes, but otherwise many of the posters on this site would despise Mr. Weinstein for being a teacher. Irony.
you don’t visit SDA much, do you?
Mao-ling: a follower of Mao who killed 70 million. Love the double standard of the left. Followers of Hitler are rightly condemned. but Maoists? Nope.
Soon they will have all teachers working in the fields…
Considering it is the teachers responsible for this maoist indoctrination, a little field work might be good for them.
All this nonsense stops when politicians get serious about the deficit and accept that these liabilities of institutions are just volunteering for budget cuts.
“colour” ??
Is he not an American professor writing American English?
He might have other problems besides the Maoist gang.
After due research, I found another quote which is exactly identical (in so far as what David quoted) except for the spelling of “color.” It turns out it was from a (verbal) testimony Bret Weinstein gave before Congress. So the American site rendered the spelling as “color” and the Canadian site rendered it as “colour.” http://209.157.64.201/focus/f-news/3663409/posts
In any case, if this is all you got from the quote, you are surely missing the gigantic forest for the puny sapling. Besides, even if he had chosen to write it that way, why is it indicative of a problem on the same scale as the “Maoist gang”?
Bret Weinstein hit the nail on the head. It’s all about the acquiring and keeping of power. That’s why so socialists – both international and national – work their way into government because, to them, it is the ultimate source of power.
Don’t forget that most universities and colleges are supported by government and he who owns the gold makes the rules.
Socialists, in their quest to acquire and keep power, could not care less about the rights of their fellow citizens. They could not care less about their own hypocrisy. Moreover, they accuse and condemn.
The most critical characteristic of socialists is that they acquire and keep that power AT THE COST OF THEIR FELLOW CITIZENS, even their very lives. Cue Vladimir Lenin, A.H., Mao, and Fidel Castro and the millions upon millions of lives that were taken in their causes.
Socialism is simply soft pedaled communism. Communism does not sell well but ingrating your people into the socialist ranks and eventually the same results can be had. Socialism deals in ‘greed and envy’ and perceived intellectual superiority. To a degree the success of socialism over the past 30 years rests at the foot of free enterprise. Free enterprise has failed to counter socialist promises with a defense of deferred consumption and virtue of long term investments in people and product.
Free enterprise has allowed socialists (communists) to take over the education system, the media and the government bureaucracy to such an extent that driving them out will be almost impossible.
You and Gary D. say it well.
The Frankfurt School has been highly successful in undermining western liberal democracy.
You can’t have a discussion, debate, dialectic or any rational conversation with a person who has not mastered self-control. There was a time when one of the markers of adulthood and maturity was the ability to control your emotions and thoughts. Apparently this is now passe and we’ve regressed into childish forms of communication. I suppose it was once considered edgy because most people were taught to value self-control but unhinged, uncontrolled discourse has become the norm in social media, including blogs. I guess it’s not shocking that mobbing and irrational, emotive, confrontational communication moved from digital to real life.
As for universities, the fix is not that complicated. I assume students have a code of conduct form they sign. I suspect a consistent use of suspensions and expulsions would help students (re)discover their self-control. Expulsions for ringleaders, suspensions for the support mob. Re-establishing basic rules is not oppressive.
Make no mistake, the professor guy is with the protesters.
The only thing is, that it did not work out for him this time.
He is a victim now and all around superior good guy.
As some can know from history, this is how the socialists, fascists, communists and other such ‘ists, turn on themselves. From then on it is basically a contest who gets the critical mass first to destroy the other one.
It is what is commonly described as leftists, do.
End of story.
‘From then on it is basically a contest who gets the critical mass first to destroy the other one’
The closest allies of the victors who won the battles to enslave a country are always the first to fall when ‘the new order’ takes over.
Well said. You say it perfectly.
Be that as it may, if indeed he has seen the light, even if for purely self preservation reasons, he is a valuable asset, and can testify to Congress having been inside the beast. All I ask is that he now truly realizes that what was wrong was not just this one incident, but the entire SJW movement. You cannot only allow people on your side who are historically pure, and have been conservatives since the womb.
If you know the four quadrant political graph, I think Weinstein describes himself as being part of the libertarian left.
The silver lining in the dark cloud of the tactics of authoritarian left is that they are losing the cenrist and libertarian left. Just like an ex-smoker, the “red-pilled” left are some of the most effective opposition to the authoritarian left because they speak the same language and understand the mysterious, often contradicting, leftist thought process.
We are herdbeasts.
Inciting the mob has always been a very human sport.Teaching emotional control, AKA maturity has always been a parents task.
The State took over,mediocracy rules.
Doubling down on this power grab,public education,the next trick was to tax the citizen into poverty.
Much less opposition when you crush the peons this way.
Now that emotionalism rules, we will see inciting a riot become the new normal..
Until the mob turns or is turned ,by better rhetoric, onto the inciters.
Think France 1770s..
Naturally we will start the cycle with a fresh approach to burn the witch.
the end game of the maolings is a world gone mad. no one can be trusted because of the inculcated everywhere ratting you out and then inventing thoughtcrimes. the chairman said it himslef ‘constant state of revolution’. first time I heard that in my late teens I wondered, how does anything get done?
an entire globe, caught up in an insanity beyond description.
at the core of this are the herdsmen, competing with and against each other, none of them can trust any of the rest of them, so alliances have 23 layers of intrigue.
but, it’s a cardboard box full of rats, which in short order turns to cannibalism.
umpteen examples in history, do a search.
cue the end times.
I get why people are taking about the bigger picture of the authoritarian left (communism, socialism). The problem with that is people just throw up their hands in despair because it’s too big.
What’s happening with student misbehavior in higher education can be fixed. Let’s put it this way: if the army of teaching faculty, administration and executive cannot deal with a few rotten teenagers and young adults acting out then the university employees have failed. Who has the power? It should be the people who run the education system, they just need to have a backbone. If the existing staff aren’t assertive enough to enforce the code of conduct to remove crazy, disruptive students then replace the staff, starting at the top.
if the army of teaching faculty, administration and executive cannot deal with a few rotten teenagers and young adults acting out then the university employees have failed
That’s easier said than done. One reason I quit my teaching job was because of the misbehaviour of my students.
During my last year, I taught a service course to one group which was the class from hell and I couldn’t keep them in line, no matter what they did. I often complained about their hooliganism to their department head and his response was to smile, automatically take their side, and do absolutely nothing. Because of his lax approach, the students knew they could get away with pretty near anything because he would always overrule me.
Then again, he wasn’t interested in rocking the boat, particularly since he was close to retirement and didn’t want any hassles. I knew of a few people in that institution who behaved in a similar manner.
If there’s one party that deserves blame in this matter, it’s the spineless administrators who are afraid that they might lose their cushy jobs if they actually expect the students to earn their rewards. Those students were, after all, “customers” and the “customer” was always right.