Evergreen State College students have berated a professor and called for his resignation after he objected to an event where white students were asked to leave the campus for a day. Bret Weinstein, a biology professor at the university, sent out an email criticizing the purpose of this year’s “Day Of Absence” event where, unlike in the past, white students and faculty members were asked to leave campus to give space to people of color. Traditionally, the annual event is characterized by people of color leaving the campus to show their contribution to the campus, while white students and faculty members are attending anti-racism workshops. “There is a huge difference between a group or coalition deciding to voluntarily absent themselves from a shared space in order to highlight their vital and under appreciated roles … and a group or coalition encouraging another group to go away,” Weinstein wrote in the email. “I would encourage others to put phenotype aside and reject this new formulation … On a college campus, one’s right to speak—or to be—must never be based on skin color.” (continued)
It actually sounds like a pretty good thought experiment. I've never been a part of a group that could take a whole day off to show the world how much I am needed. I'd like to try it one time, maybe get some fishing done.
maybe I am color-blind, but in the first minute that i watched, I did not see any black student. a couple of vocal activists, and the rest is standing around awkwardly, rather wanting to be somewhere else. why don't they voluntarily and permanently leave the university, so that a black person can then be admitted instead? but no, they just want to make a big show a tempest in a teapot. when you have youth like that, you know you don't have any real existential problems.