"The code Hutu extremists used over the radio to start the 1994 genoc!de in Rwanda was “it’s time to cut down the tall trees.” The not-so-subtle propagation had some literal implications, as machetes were the weapon of choice to slaughter their taller, fairer skinned country men"
Does she even realize that "cutting down the tall trees" is a well-known metaphor used to describe how incompetent, mediocre people deliberately set out to destroy the competent and talented out of spite, jealousy and envy.
Israel calls it “cutting the grass” when they go in to release a hailstorm of artillery fire over Gasa… So stunning and brave of them. Same cognitive dissonance.
@@mymangodfrey Americas history is littered with mass psychosis rooted moral panics that result in a small but vocal zealot wired portion of the population petitioning the state to abuse, incarcerate and " remove " another portion of the citizenry that houses some _great evil_ . The more frightening aspect to all of this is how those formerly declared some variation of ' _witch_ ' just go back to sharing a society with the same people that to some degree, wanted them given the _witch treatment_ Once you prove that you're a walking zealotry landmine, those that survived your frenzied calls for "burnings" are not obligated to accept living with you as their neighbors.
For additional sweet and slightly eerie tunes, look up World at Our Feet by Timmy Trumpet. ⚠️ Warning. ⚠️ it can pop into your head during videos like this and temporarily disable your listening mechanism.
Every school board considering the adoption of a CRT curriculum should be required to watch The Complete Evergreen Story. Watching a campus devolve into complete madness should be a sufficient deterrent.
I agree with you, but sadly, too many people would look at this madness without thinking it was madness. Too much brainwashing, too much fear and culpability, too much self flagellating... I'm afraid we're already past the time of sound arguments and common sense being enough...
Don’t forget: “When my feelz are hurt you’re committing violence against me. When you cry you’re committing violence against me.” NO PRIVILEGE THERE. 🙄
@@hurryandleave9680 only to a certain extent. Once he and his followers posted their videos online, the vast majority of people saw through him; and saw the perversion that Evergreen had become.
This series is an incredible accomplishment. The amount of footage that speaks for itself, the profiling of key players, the whole thing was really impressive.
Thanks Ardlien. Some day I’ll go back over it, clean up some cuts and add extra info I’ve since uncovered (the school’s public records department has delayed records going on five years now). But the most pressing project at this moment is turning it into a musical theatrical performance, hopefully to be at least in demo form by the fifth anniversary of these events.
I checked out the bios of some of the most radical professors. About half studied at what are considered some of the most prestigious colleges and universities in the country: Columbia, Brown, Pennsylvania, Swarthmore, etc. The fish rots from the head down.
Around the 8.20 mark: "Demanding" to be loved. That's them in a nutshell. The arrogance, the ignorance, the lack of self awareness, the imposition and expectations placed upon others, the avoidance of basic human nature. And. Their own unhappiness & emptiness.
@@greensmurf221 It's the "adult" equivalent of a kid, sitting in a shopping trolley, screaming for something - as a parent walks them round a shop. Giving in - just makes more screaming.
Benjamin, I have found this story, from the start, to be fascinating. Your coverage of events and the backstory has been of a very high level. I look forward with anticipation to your epilogue.
"cut down the trees so this forest shines brighter and brighter" So just ravage the landscape and destroy the ecosystem so I feel better is it? How about, NO.
It really exposes their thinking. "I don't like this, it must be destroyed". "It'll have to go," the men of Krikkit said as they headed back for home. On the way back they sang a number of tuneful and reflective songs on the subjects of peace, justice, morality, culture, sport, family life and the obliteration of all other life forms. - Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything
Had I not started watching your Evergreen series, Benjamin, I would have no idea how we got to this point. I wouldn't have understood 2020 & the BLM riots, or the human costs of teaching intersectionality, or what exactly is CRT & why it's toxic. I had friends who tried to tell me that I didn't understand Evergreen, but had your videos to point at in rebuttal & say, "Look, it's all on tape." And without understanding his era, the artist has no hope of ever transcending it. Thanks ✌️
I’m still very confused as to what the protesters ultimately want. I wish a teacher would have made them fill out a form with what actual changes they want.
I completely agree. I've referenced this series as a legitimate source aggregated by a student who was an eyewitness. That being said the curriculum on display is not CRT. Legitimately CRT is really only taught in law school. And only if a professor thinks it may be relevant to a specific class. But the f****** nonsense that went down at evergreen is on some other s***... And the whole time I'm listening for an example of an actual incident. Real violence. Or the threat of violence. Or harassment. I haven't heard one the whole series. No one said they were pulled over, stopped, or searched by PD.
How did your friends that told you that you didn't understand Evergreen, actually explain what happened? I'm sure they justified this crackpot lunacy. But what did they say was going on?
Jamil and most of the others throughout this series who talk about racism, etc. never make a point, the never make a sensible statement. They say a ton of words without saying anything. Like most politicians.
In the last two days I've watched all 24 episodes and the speech took the freaking cake. OMG cut down the trees --- horrific. THE absolute MAOism of it all. Really well done Benjamin.
So, deforestation is the answer to being afraid in the woods? That was what she got out of it? What an immature and destructive viewpoint. It shouldn't shock me, I know these people, but it still does.
15:14 Best part of the video! I am so happy for officer Stacy. She is such a dedicated and good person who didn't deserve any of the cr*p she got from that barnyard masquerading as a college. glad she is doing well.
@benjaminABoyce i work in higher ed, 27 years now. This is one of the best documentaries I've ever watched. Id love to share it with colleagues but know I'd be the one on the chopping block. ❤ to you and Bret for documenting these events.
The only thing holding anyone down these days is their own attitude. The rest of this is just people who love to be seen as victims because they lack the will to take responsibility for their own lives.
You have spoken to a terrific group of articulate students. Such a disappointment for them to have all this happening at their college whilst they are trying to learn.
It's the 'words=violence' thing that makes me laugh every time I hear it. If only the parents of these academics and students had taught them "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me", we could have avoided this whole sorry saga.
I was raised hearing this as well and it has resurfaced in my brain as I've watched this craziness unfold. The fragility and deep narcissism of these "true believers" is flabbergasting.
“Examine the lives of the best and most fruitful people and peoples and ask yourselves whether a tree that is supposed to grow to a proud height can dispense with bad weather and storms; whether misfortune and external resistance, some kinds of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, mistrust, hardness, avarice, and violence do not belong among the favourable conditions without which any great growth even of virtue is scarcely possible.” ~Nietzsche
I still find the whole Evergreen situation endlessly fascinating. I think it's because it was one of the first times I had heard about an event where I truly couldn't accept that it had actually happened. There were certainly many instances of lunacy in the years leading up to it, but when I first became aware of what happened at Evergreen, it felt like something that could only happen in some insane parallel dimension, not in the world in which I lived. I wish I knew more about the lives lived by the ringleaders leading up to the events, to try and potentially understand how they ended up where they did, and doing/saying the things they did. It probably still wouldn't totally make sense, as the answer is probably just progressivism taken to extremes, but it might help make a little more sense out of things.
It reminded me of the pictures that came out of Liberia's civil war a few decades ago of the boy child soldiers wearing women's wigs and weird multicoloured clothing and dresses, all while holding a machine gun
Yuri Bezmenov was talking about the goal the soviets had with infiltrating higher education of the USA in the 80s. We just see the results of the decades long plan set in motion before the soviets fell.
Did the Evergreen students understand that once you upload something to the Internet it can almost never be deleted? Did they understand that their actions, and the supporting evidence, can follow them for the rest of their professional lives? Did they understand that their actions have hurt the reputation of everyone who has ever gone to Evergreen?
They'll be fine. They'll get high paying jobs as Diversity, Equity and Inclusion officers in big corporations and decide whether or not your white children get jobs.
Nice to hear that Stacy Brown has been vindicated and compensated she got too much crap as she tried to do her job. The President of a College/University should not be able to interfere with a Law Enforcement Professional in the course of their duty as they are employed by the Board of the College/University.
All of this absurdity makes me Really Glad that I dropped out of high school, got my GED, & went into the trades. Dodged a bullet there. Didnt get indoctrinated, didnt get harassed, & probably make twice as much money as any of these wokies with "degrees" and mountains of student loan debt.
@@jonasabry9099 Nah, I can still laugh along with stories of this phenomenon with great creators like Benjamin, James Lindsey, Jordan Peterson, & many many more!
I'm sure this is about what you expected. Adult children. It's not exactly a new phenomenon. Parenting forums always contain issues of dealing with tantruming kids and the answer is always not to indulge. So where could institutionalizing indulgence possibly go wrong? Or maybe it went right.
Benjamin, if ever a report was deserving of a Pulitzer Prize your story is. Excellent work. it is absolutely maddening and frustrating but you let those responsible for this fiasco show themselves for what they are.
@@gauloise6442 not everyone, just the people who “exist at the intersection of marginalized groups”. The others need to center their lives around those who exist at those intersections, or else “be the tall trees” blocking their way…
It's the parable of "the blind men and the elephant". When one has no vision and relies on touch, one has challenges conceptualizing a thing that cannot be held within one's hands which another with vision does not have.
Benjamin, your series on Evergreen has been stunning. I imagine this has been an incredible hard and difficult path to create this story of what happened. I hope it has been a labor of love for you and not burdensome. It has sure opened my eyes. I watch and am flabbergasted. I admire those students, faculty and administrators who had the courage to say - stop, can we talk about this- (obviously not). How will we as a nation ever get real change, make real progress when so many are not even remotely close to reality. Thanks
Same way a certain petulant, dorky German convinced a whole nation that his brand of violence was the best solution to their problem. People seem to be uniquely susceptible to this (ultimately) narcissistic appeal to unfairness.
I still think the students who fomented this kerfuffle were not performing up to documented standards and were pissed off that they were getting negative feedback from professors on the lack of quality of scholarship in their work. They didn’t want to adhere to submission deadlines-that’s why one of the demands for resolution was to not have to turn in work.
No performance standards?That’a like a bad electrician not wanting his shoddy work to be inspected… I wonder how many houses will become burning pyres in the night, due to indulging not protests but “intersectional” electrical contractors…
Yes, but maybe no. It reminds me of the approx. 5 students at UC Berkeley who demanded not to take their final exam because everyday they had to endure racism as they walked to class. They also demanded that their classmates walk out with them. In England the police are afraid to investigate rape because the gangs doing it are such as they are, and to investigate means the police are racist. I believe a lot of the most fragile TESC students got top grades based on "tone" alone, for to give them anything else, well.
Thank you for another great part of the documentary! Thomas is a very insightful young man, I can see why he wasn't wanted in the class anymore lol Much luck to him in the future.
Jamil Bee talks about what “feels like violence” yet he wants no limits on what is considered racism or what is considered an appropriate response. He would be worse than Robespierre if he had his way. He would redefine the limits of violence by example.
Thank you for this series, it was an excellent revisiting and extremely in-depth telling of the Apocalypse come to the US. (You know I couldn't help but to add some humor... it comes to me like a cat-o-nine-tails fits in George Bridges hand so he can flagellate when not being shit on by students.)
The recent Scott Adams controversy reminded me of all this. If segregation does return, I hope these Redguard type of campus screechers get a section in the history books about it. Screecher: _Go away, trees, so we can bask in the sunlight._ Trees: 🤔 _You got it, boss!_
this has been better than the office . it should be made into a TV show we brits would love the fat lesbian black victim professor she should be a bond villain
The things the young adult at around 15:00 describes are utterly outlandish to me - this is supposed to be university, right? I'm not American, I'm german and these "classes" belong if anything in school classes, not in institutions of higher learning. I mean the tuition fee over there is actually a lot of money and they play some childish social experiment you could watch on youtube when they should get an education. At this point I'd think any person with some reason would curse this mad house for luring them in to waste money and time.
It’s been a while since I’ve watched some of the earlier episodes in this documentary, but have you discussed the Evergreen situation in the light of all the CRT battles presently going on at school board meetings? Is Evergreen the natural progression, or result, of CRT being taught in schools? I am an educator (elementary school), and am very interested in this question. Thank you for putting all this information together- this doc is quite amazing. Brilliant work. 👍👍👍
CRT and Intersectionality are fundamental to Wokeism (the easy term for the coalition of bad ideas that led to the Evergreen debacle). Teaching CRT, anti-racism, the tenets of critical social justice, so-called DEI will eventually lead to Evergreen-like outcomes. It may take a while but all you need is a few zealots and they will bully every coward into compliance and eject every heretic.
Popcorn time !!! It's funny, every time I watch one of these I now think of the kids in Erec Smith's rhetoric class and chuckle. I used to think of the CHAZ and feel black pilled. This is better... Thanks Benjamin
Jesus Christ. The point where the speaker has the second group stand up and labels them as the trees, continuing into that monologue, is really something to consider. That's quite an open and opening opening to this part of the story.
These students and people that think this way can NEVER be appeased. Nothing the school did or does will ever be enough. Trying is futile only creates even more, unhinged demands.
That teacher kicking that guy out of the media class is such an epic failure, and adding the "Period." in the email is just so unprofessional. As the rest of higher ed free-falls into irrelevance, Evergreen remains the most "progressive" example of what not to do.
To give Jamil his due, he's very smart and articulate, and puts his points over well, wrong-headed as they may be. Smarter than Henry? I would say so, given that it's not a very high bar. I would love to know what Jamil's up to these days.
Cut down the tall trees??? What a ridiculous speech
I encourage everyone to google that phrase
@@BenjaminABoyce HOLY CATS!! I thought it was just a bad metaphor 😳
@@BenjaminABoyce The number of moments of astonishment as I've watched this series is unbelievable. But GOOD GRIEF that's horrific
don’t worry - it’ll be “mostly peaceful.”
"The code Hutu extremists used over the radio to start the 1994 genoc!de in Rwanda was “it’s time to cut down the tall trees.” The not-so-subtle propagation had some literal implications, as machetes were the weapon of choice to slaughter their taller, fairer skinned country men"
I like how Thoreau’s idea of being uplifted by the grandeur of nature is now interpreted as a metaphor to destroy that grandeur in the name of equity.
Says a lot about their entire worldview. Tear down the trees to create a safe space.
And she calls him some white dude! Umm, did you read his work?
She did not, hence her need to wonder about him. I guess you don't have to read any books to give the speech at Evergreen.@@catcar9157
Ha ha
I hadn’t thought of that
Does she even realize that "cutting down the tall trees" is a well-known metaphor used to describe how incompetent, mediocre people deliberately set out to destroy the competent and talented out of spite, jealousy and envy.
And, you know, just the rallying cry that sparked the Rwandan genocide…
I thought that was tall flowers or tall poppies or something....
Israel calls it “cutting the grass” when they go in to release a hailstorm of artillery fire over Gasa… So stunning and brave of them. Same cognitive dissonance.
Yes.
it's interesting how much that theory matches with nietzsche's slave morality
Evergreen has a Jonestown feel to it.
America has a Jonestown feel right now, if we’re being honest.
@@mymangodfrey no argument there
@@mymangodfrey
Americas history is littered with mass psychosis rooted moral panics that result in a small but vocal zealot wired portion of the population petitioning the state to abuse, incarcerate and " remove " another portion of the citizenry that houses some _great evil_ .
The more frightening aspect to all of this is how those formerly declared some variation of ' _witch_ ' just go back to sharing a society with the same people that to some degree, wanted them given the _witch treatment_
Once you prove that you're a walking zealotry landmine, those that survived your frenzied calls for "burnings" are not obligated to accept living with you as their neighbors.
Well the Church of Jim Jones was openly communist, so....
@@justincook181 Wasn't Jones semi-officially supported by the CIA? Or am I thinking of another cult?
Graduation speaker; I encourage you to tell your own stories
Benjamin; I'm gonna tell some stories all right
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🎶Now there's no more oak oppression
For they passed a noble law
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, axe, and saw🎶
Brilliant
For additional sweet and slightly eerie tunes, look up World at Our Feet by Timmy Trumpet.
⚠️ Warning. ⚠️ it can pop into your head during videos like this and temporarily disable your listening mechanism.
RIP Neil. You are already missed
Rush. One of the best bands.
This is the epitome of evil
Every school board considering the adoption of a CRT curriculum should be required to watch The Complete Evergreen Story. Watching a campus devolve into complete madness should be a sufficient deterrent.
I agree with you, but sadly, too many people would look at this madness without thinking it was madness. Too much brainwashing, too much fear and culpability, too much self flagellating... I'm afraid we're already past the time of sound arguments and common sense being enough...
They would applaud it
" *There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see* "
They would take notes and use it as a users manual.
It’s incredible how these people can’t see that they are racists. I actually feel really bad for them.
She did not understand the Thoreau quote at all. Just goes to show she has to drag people down to lift herself up which is what CRT is all about.
of course, she doesnt care what _he_ meant in the quote... just her "truth" that she got from it. his intent is immaterial.
“But that’s not what REAL CRT is about!”
😂😂😂😂
"CRT is only in law schools."
@@billsimms2511 a real crt is what you play n64 on
Jamil: "So what harms and upsets me the most is when I don't get my way."
Don’t forget:
“When my feelz are hurt you’re committing violence against me. When you cry you’re committing violence against me.”
NO PRIVILEGE THERE. 🙄
Jamil is the living definition of petulance, immaturity and narcissism.
@@barracuda6900 I will give him credit for being a master manipulator.
@@hurryandleave9680 only to a certain extent. Once he and his followers posted their videos online, the vast majority of people saw through him; and saw the perversion that Evergreen had become.
When you introduce yourself as a list of identities, you sound like a Starbucks order.
this Documentary should have hundreds of thousands of more views
Currently working on the musical version. Might be able to milk at least 100k more if everything falls into place.
This series is an incredible accomplishment. The amount of footage that speaks for itself, the profiling of key players, the whole thing was really impressive.
Thanks Ardlien. Some day I’ll go back over it, clean up some cuts and add extra info I’ve since uncovered (the school’s public records department has delayed records going on five years now). But the most pressing project at this moment is turning it into a musical theatrical performance, hopefully to be at least in demo form by the fifth anniversary of these events.
So, Jamil's definition of hate speech is that which does not validate him. Got it.
This is a great example of the inmates running the asylum
Or the Doctors letting the inmates run things.
Way back when this series started I was comparing it to Lord of the Flies.
I checked out the bios of some of the most radical professors.
About half studied at what are considered some of the most prestigious colleges and universities in the country: Columbia, Brown, Pennsylvania, Swarthmore, etc.
The fish rots from the head down.
"Cut down the tall trees" The Hutu Said Call To Genocide Of The Tutsis
I wish more people realized how important this historical document is. Thanks Benjamin
Around the 8.20 mark:
"Demanding" to be loved.
That's them in a nutshell.
The arrogance, the ignorance, the lack of self awareness, the imposition and expectations placed upon others, the avoidance of basic human nature.
And.
Their own unhappiness & emptiness.
Yeah the 'demanding to be loved' really stood out for me as well. My response was a simple: "No." It's borderline 'incel' logic lol
But they’re “wearing their outfits”!! 🤣
Mental illness loves to hide behind totalitarian ideologies.
@@greensmurf221 It's the "adult" equivalent of a kid, sitting in a shopping trolley, screaming for something - as a parent walks them round a shop.
Giving in - just makes more screaming.
Benjamin, I have found this story, from the start, to be fascinating. Your coverage of events and the backstory has been of a very high level. I look forward with anticipation to your epilogue.
Thanks John!
Agreed.
"cut down the trees so this forest shines brighter and brighter" So just ravage the landscape and destroy the ecosystem so I feel better is it? How about, NO.
Very strange. Cut down the forest and call it a forest. How about leaving the shade of a forest to a sunny meadow.
I would expect as much from an arbor heightist
It really exposes their thinking. "I don't like this, it must be destroyed".
"It'll have to go," the men of Krikkit said as they headed back for home. On the way back they sang a number of tuneful and reflective songs on the subjects of peace, justice, morality, culture, sport, family life and the obliteration of all other life forms. - Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything
I mean.... forests are terrible.
Google "Cut down the tall trees"
She wasn't talking about trees!
Had I not started watching your Evergreen series, Benjamin, I would have no idea how we got to this point. I wouldn't have understood 2020 & the BLM riots, or the human costs of teaching intersectionality, or what exactly is CRT & why it's toxic.
I had friends who tried to tell me that I didn't understand Evergreen, but had your videos to point at in rebuttal & say, "Look, it's all on tape."
And without understanding his era, the artist has no hope of ever transcending it.
Thanks ✌️
I’m still very confused as to what the protesters ultimately want. I wish a teacher would have made them fill out a form with what actual changes they want.
@@billsimms2511 They want to be pandered to they want power without responsibility.
I completely agree. I've referenced this series as a legitimate source aggregated by a student who was an eyewitness. That being said the curriculum on display is not CRT. Legitimately CRT is really only taught in law school. And only if a professor thinks it may be relevant to a specific class. But the f****** nonsense that went down at evergreen is on some other s***... And the whole time I'm listening for an example of an actual incident. Real violence. Or the threat of violence. Or harassment. I haven't heard one the whole series. No one said they were pulled over, stopped, or searched by PD.
How did your friends that told you that you didn't understand Evergreen, actually explain what happened? I'm sure they justified this crackpot lunacy. But what did they say was going on?
Jamil and most of the others throughout this series who talk about racism, etc. never make a point, the never make a sensible statement. They say a ton of words without saying anything. Like most politicians.
The Limp Bizkit graffiti guy is my hero
That kind of propaganda is beyond edgy.
Those words by Jamil were very telling. There will never be enough reparations.
"There is no limit that can be set over us in being able to squash oppressive behavior."
Cut down the tall trees.
Absolutely correct. Australia is beginning to see what that really means atm.
Theroux, some old damn white dude. I can't even deal with this right now. I must be running out of racial stamina or maybe I'm fragile.
Not the Louis one, darling. Thoreau.
@@suigeneris2663 ah, yes. Thank you.
Crowds go insane together, sanity is found again slowly one by one.
That emeritus prof’s speech sounded like a hostage statement.
I haven't heard it yet, but now I want to.
In the last two days I've watched all 24 episodes and the speech took the freaking cake. OMG cut down the trees --- horrific. THE absolute MAOism of it all. Really well done Benjamin.
Jamil was seriously toxic.
Steps to a beautiful and bright forest:
1. Cut down all the tall trees
We have seen how that works out in South Africa.
They were all ahead of their time, it just took everyone else a couple years to catch up. Not that anyone should have adopted any of this curriculum.
I can only think of one college that hasn't gone the Evergreen route: Hillsdale College in Michigan.
So, deforestation is the answer to being afraid in the woods? That was what she got out of it? What an immature and destructive viewpoint. It shouldn't shock me, I know these people, but it still does.
15:14 Best part of the video! I am so happy for officer Stacy. She is such a dedicated and good person who didn't deserve any of the cr*p she got from that barnyard masquerading as a college. glad she is doing well.
Where is Jamil? Did he change his name? Fall off a cliff? Did his posse take their bats to him? Join the Aryan Nation?
Them, they their name? 🤣
@@ricodelavega4511 Yea I looked nothing post grad.
Benjamin, I get excited whenever I see you upload a chapter on Evergreen. Thank you for putting together such a wonderful documentary!
Here in Ireland we have a phrase, it's kind of ironic..........'Hope it always stays so good for you.'
you and Limp Bizkit dude are the only rays of hopeful light in this dark, dark tale
nah there were at least 2 really cool girls and the dude who literally stood by bret
I love how at 2:55 the video blends to the vision of devastation once the dream of cutting tall trees has been accomplished.
Right when I think Benjamin has forgotten us and moved on...he drops another bomb....💥
As somebody who is Vietnamese, it is very telling how she explicitly said South Asians and excluded East Asians - we really are convenient minorities
@benjaminABoyce i work in higher ed, 27 years now. This is one of the best documentaries I've ever watched. Id love to share it with colleagues but know I'd be the one on the chopping block. ❤ to you and Bret for documenting these events.
High praise, thank you! 🙌
The only thing holding anyone down these days is their own attitude. The rest of this is just people who love to be seen as victims because they lack the will to take responsibility for their own lives.
You have spoken to a terrific group of articulate students. Such a disappointment for them to have all this happening at their college whilst they are trying to learn.
It's the 'words=violence' thing that makes me laugh every time I hear it. If only the parents of these academics and students had taught them "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me", we could have avoided this whole sorry saga.
I was raised hearing this as well and it has resurfaced in my brain as I've watched this craziness unfold. The fragility and deep narcissism of these "true believers" is flabbergasting.
I've legitimately taken punches - words are the last thing I'm ever worried about.
I'm really inspired to plant trees now. Long live adversity!
“Examine the lives of the best and most fruitful people and peoples and ask yourselves whether a tree that is supposed to grow to a proud height can dispense with bad weather and storms; whether misfortune and external resistance, some kinds of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, mistrust, hardness, avarice, and violence do not belong among the favourable conditions without which any great growth even of virtue is scarcely possible.” ~Nietzsche
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I still find the whole Evergreen situation endlessly fascinating. I think it's because it was one of the first times I had heard about an event where I truly couldn't accept that it had actually happened. There were certainly many instances of lunacy in the years leading up to it, but when I first became aware of what happened at Evergreen, it felt like something that could only happen in some insane parallel dimension, not in the world in which I lived. I wish I knew more about the lives lived by the ringleaders leading up to the events, to try and potentially understand how they ended up where they did, and doing/saying the things they did. It probably still wouldn't totally make sense, as the answer is probably just progressivism taken to extremes, but it might help make a little more sense out of things.
It reminded me of the pictures that came out of Liberia's civil war a few decades ago of the boy child soldiers wearing women's wigs and weird multicoloured clothing and dresses, all while holding a machine gun
Yuri Bezmenov was talking about the goal the soviets had with infiltrating higher education of the USA in the 80s.
We just see the results of the decades long plan set in motion before the soviets fell.
Did the Evergreen students understand that once you upload something to the Internet it can almost never be deleted? Did they understand that their actions, and the supporting evidence, can follow them for the rest of their professional lives? Did they understand that their actions have hurt the reputation of everyone who has ever gone to Evergreen?
They'll be fine.
They'll get high paying jobs as Diversity, Equity and Inclusion officers in big corporations and decide whether or not your white children get jobs.
The Evergreen events have also a positive aspect: We learnt that Evergreen’s ideological vision of a utopian society does not work.
…did we though?
@@BenjaminABoyce At least there is hope…
Perfectly reasonable. Jamil just wants everybody else to accept every thought that pops into his head without question.
What's the problem?
Oh god, it never ends. Thank you Benjamin.
Nice to hear that Stacy Brown has been vindicated and compensated she got too much crap as she tried to do her job. The President of a College/University should not be able to interfere with a Law Enforcement Professional in the course of their duty as they are employed by the Board of the College/University.
All of this absurdity makes me Really Glad that I dropped out of high school, got my GED, & went into the trades. Dodged a bullet there. Didnt get indoctrinated, didnt get harassed, & probably make twice as much money as any of these wokies with "degrees" and mountains of student loan debt.
You missed out on all the "wonderful" Marxist literature.
@@jonasabry9099 Nah, I can still laugh along with stories of this phenomenon with great creators like Benjamin, James Lindsey, Jordan Peterson, & many many more!
@@wile-e-coyote8371 I was being sarcastic.
@@wile-e-coyote8371 🤣
@@jonasabry9099 Of course! 👍
Thomas H. Such a smart guy. Hope no employer rejects him just because he went to Evergreen!!!
The series is more riveting than anything Netflix could throw up!
The-fascination-with-the-abomination lol
Should be watched by every parent!!
Cut down the trees? Really? Oh no.
#i can't breathe
If you don't like tall trees, then studying at Evergreen was probably not your best choice.
Hahaha
Back in the 90s I often wondered how the hyper indulgence of children would play out. 🧐
I'm sure this is about what you expected. Adult children. It's not exactly a new phenomenon. Parenting forums always contain issues of dealing with tantruming kids and the answer is always not to indulge. So where could institutionalizing indulgence possibly go wrong? Or maybe it went right.
Absolutely fascinating series- so thought provoking and well put together. Thank you!!
Thank you very much, Janie!
Benjamin, if ever a report was deserving of a Pulitzer Prize your story is. Excellent work. it is absolutely maddening and frustrating but you let those responsible for this fiasco show themselves for what they are.
A high honor!
Though Pulitzers are awarded by the midwits to the nimwits found in this documentary.
Thank you for showcasing Thomas at the end. His speech was eloquent, well-thought out and spot-on.
"Don't become the trees in someone else forest". For what reason this lady think that people go to a forest?
depends if you see yourself as a pope or a bear
She is basically urging everyone to live a self-centered, narcissistic existence.
@@gauloise6442 not everyone, just the people who “exist at the intersection of marginalized groups”. The others need to center their lives around those who exist at those intersections, or else “be the tall trees” blocking their way…
She’s essentially calling for segregation….at best…
In the end it really is or will be that simple.
This whole series is one of the deeper dives I've ever seen in my life
these people, in claiming agency, abdicated their own agency by asking the question, "what are you going to do about it?"
It's the parable of "the blind men and the elephant". When one has no vision and relies on touch, one has challenges conceptualizing a thing that cannot be held within one's hands which another with vision does not have.
Benjamin, your series on Evergreen has been stunning. I imagine this has been an incredible hard and difficult path to create this story of what happened. I hope it has been a labor of love for you and not burdensome. It has sure opened my eyes. I watch and am flabbergasted. I admire those students, faculty and administrators who had the courage to say - stop, can we talk about this- (obviously not). How will we as a nation ever get real change, make real progress when so many are not even remotely close to reality. Thanks
Thanks for watching Michael!
Thanks for this documentary, Benjamin, well done.
Jamil is so petulant, how can one single dork take down an institution, no matter how ridiculous
This is a profound question.
Same way a certain petulant, dorky German convinced a whole nation that his brand of violence was the best solution to their problem. People seem to be uniquely susceptible to this (ultimately) narcissistic appeal to unfairness.
I still think the students who fomented this kerfuffle were not performing up to documented standards and were pissed off that they were getting negative feedback from professors on the lack of quality of scholarship in their work. They didn’t want to adhere to submission deadlines-that’s why one of the demands for resolution was to not have to turn in work.
Performance standards are systemic....you know the rest
Ben covered this. A professor was pressured to pass a student who couldn't wouldn't.
No performance standards?That’a like a bad electrician not wanting his shoddy work to be inspected…
I wonder how many houses will become burning pyres in the night, due to indulging not protests but “intersectional” electrical contractors…
Yes, but maybe no. It reminds me of the approx. 5 students at UC Berkeley who demanded not to take their final exam because everyday they had to endure racism as they walked to class. They also demanded that their classmates walk out with them.
In England the police are afraid to investigate rape because the gangs doing it are such as they are, and to investigate means the police are racist. I believe a lot of the most fragile TESC students got top grades based on "tone" alone, for to give them anything else, well.
@@j_freed - Surprised? They basically have no entrance standards either - 98% of applicants are admitted.
Thank you for another great part of the documentary! Thomas is a very insightful young man, I can see why he wasn't wanted in the class anymore lol Much luck to him in the future.
This series has single-handedly shifted my politics towards the centre.
Also, the side-eye inserts gave me life!
Only one criticism: not enough ducks.
🤜🦆🦆🐈⬛🤛
@@BenjaminABoyce Where do you think Jane Elliott’s Blue Eyes-Brown Eyes “experiment” lies in this timeline of insanity?
Man attending Evergreen was a wild trip. This brings me back haha
Jamil Bee talks about what “feels like violence” yet he wants no limits on what is considered racism or what is considered an appropriate response. He would be worse than Robespierre if he had his way. He would redefine the limits of violence by example.
Thank you for this series, it was an excellent revisiting and extremely in-depth telling of the Apocalypse come to the US. (You know I couldn't help but to add some humor... it comes to me like a cat-o-nine-tails fits in George Bridges hand so he can flagellate when not being shit on by students.)
Thanks for watching, SuedeStonn!
It’s criminal to charge for this type of “education.” Think of all the debt accrued just to walk away with your own echo.
I'm sure these entitled brats are hardly paying a dime. It's the taxpayers and white students who cover their costs.
Pretentiousness and oppression are mutually exclusive, keep that in mind.
Amen, preach it!
Underrated.
The recent Scott Adams controversy reminded me of all this. If segregation does return, I hope these Redguard type of campus screechers get a section in the history books about it. Screecher: _Go away, trees, so we can bask in the sunlight._ Trees: 🤔 _You got it, boss!_
Are we just going to ignore the fact that she’s repeating a phrase used by Hutus, to describe killing Tutsis during the Rwandan genocide? 😳
They are a race of aliens. They speak in something that resembles English, but it's a language I'll never understand.
Brilliant ending, sir! Always maintain that wry sense o humor!
this has been better than the office . it should be made into a TV show we brits would love the fat lesbian black victim professor she should be a bond villain
The things the young adult at around 15:00 describes are utterly outlandish to me - this is supposed to be university, right? I'm not American, I'm german and these "classes" belong if anything in school classes, not in institutions of higher learning. I mean the tuition fee over there is actually a lot of money and they play some childish social experiment you could watch on youtube when they should get an education.
At this point I'd think any person with some reason would curse this mad house for luring them in to waste money and time.
People still don't know about Evergreen.
It’s been a while since I’ve watched some of the earlier episodes in this documentary, but have you discussed the Evergreen situation in the light of all the CRT battles presently going on at school board meetings?
Is Evergreen the natural progression, or result, of CRT being taught in schools?
I am an educator (elementary school), and am very interested in this question.
Thank you for putting all this information together- this doc is quite amazing.
Brilliant work. 👍👍👍
CRT and Intersectionality are fundamental to Wokeism (the easy term for the coalition of bad ideas that led to the Evergreen debacle). Teaching CRT, anti-racism, the tenets of critical social justice, so-called DEI will eventually lead to Evergreen-like outcomes. It may take a while but all you need is a few zealots and they will bully every coward into compliance and eject every heretic.
James Lindsay, Heather MacDonald and some others have written and spoken well about the trajectory of this movement.
Gotta be tough to be in an elementary school now. I feel for you. I'm retired from that. Take care of yourself.
"oh shit it's backwards, do you think anyone will notice?"
@tmcthree ... I see we have a Matt Christensen fan here... bravo!
Popcorn time !!! It's funny, every time I watch one of these I now think of the kids in Erec Smith's rhetoric class and chuckle. I used to think of the CHAZ and feel black pilled. This is better... Thanks Benjamin
Please stop with the stupid pills already.
@@suigeneris2663 SOrrY hRd to TYPe, saAFTey lyd on piLl bottLe.
Academic Struggle Session
If Jamil and his posse took over it wasn't academic.
Dang, that "What you should know" flyer is chilling
the woods are NOT uninhabited
Wait.. if you're disabled maybe you cannot stand up. That's ableist!
Such great work on this important story, Benjamin.
Holy shit….what was said around 28:00 is INSANITY….this person is definitely a sociopath
“How dare you” indeed
I liked how it was not necessary to do a whole lot of editorializing.
I did do just a bit, to answer "why/what were they protesting" because it's a persistent question.
“Protest is a [fucking] skill.”
- my personal favorite tall-ass tree in this Soylent Evergreen saga
Thanks, Saul!
Jesus Christ. The point where the speaker has the second group stand up and labels them as the trees, continuing into that monologue, is really something to consider. That's quite an open and opening opening to this part of the story.
These students and people that think this way can NEVER be appeased. Nothing the school did or does will ever be enough. Trying is futile only creates even more, unhinged demands.
The Evergreen Saga continues. . .
Just finished this docu-series today, woah! good job
That teacher kicking that guy out of the media class is such an epic failure, and adding the "Period." in the email is just so unprofessional. As the rest of higher ed free-falls into irrelevance, Evergreen remains the most "progressive" example of what not to do.
The stuff Jamil says doesn't sound much different than Ibram X Kendi.
To give Jamil his due, he's very smart and articulate, and puts his points over well, wrong-headed as they may be. Smarter than Henry? I would say so, given that it's not a very high bar. I would love to know what Jamil's up to these days.
@@juvenalsdad4175 Maybe he's grown up, and wants to distance himself from his past. The older you get, the less radical you become.
@@juvenalsdad4175 I heard he lives in Berkeley. Ikr? I’m just as shocked as you are.
@@juvenalsdad4175 But he's a sociopathic narcissist.