Inside the Madness at Evergreen State
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#2Wow, this is really reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution.
These retaliatory attitudes towards 'white' people are hostile and racist and do not work towards building an inclusive society.
Edit: Why was this flagged?
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#3Why is Evergreen still getting a single cent of public money? This attitude doesn't educate people or serve any public interest.
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#4>[A student] cited Christopher Hitchens’s variation of Occam’s razor: “What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.”
>[a person who helped organize the Day of Absence] observed that because Hitchens’s razor is an “Englishman’s popularization of a Latin proverb,” it “would seem to itself be the product of at least two traditionally hierarchical, imperialist societies with an interest in disposing of inconvenient questions.”
. . Wow, you really can't make this up.
Evergreen officially asked "white" students to not show up to campus one day.
Those who protested this decision were told that because their logic is of English and Latin origin, it's racist.
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#5Wow, this is really reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution. These retaliatory attitudes towards 'white' people are hostile and racist and do not work towards building an inclusive society. Edit: Why was this flagged?
Nah, it will never happen again. Not here.
That swas the sentiment of many before WW2 broke out. Holocaust happened. Cultural Revolution took off.
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#6Evergreen is $25k/year, so while not quite as egregious as Oberlin at $65k/year, it's enough that anyone enrolled there is highly privileged themselves. Particularly those without a direct route to monetise their degree such as those taking professional subjects.
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#7>[A student] cited Christopher Hitchens’s variation of Occam’s razor: “What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.” >[a person who helped organize the Day of Absence] observed that because Hitchens’s razor is an “Englishman’s popularization of a Latin proverb,” it “would seem to itself be the product of at least two traditionally hierarchical, imperialist societies with an interest in dis…
People who can't think for themselves let the fashionable tropes of the day think for themselves instead.
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#8Why is this article considered suitable for Hacker News? It's political fodder, not sci/tech.
In any case, there appears to be many overheated claims around this event, with precious little context. This was a voluntary event, where both minority and white students were allowed to go off-campus for discussions around "identity politics";
https://evergreen.edu/multicultural/day-of-absence-day-of-pr...
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#9Am I the only one who sees this stuff and the thinly veiled neo-Nazi ideology of the alt-right as two wings of the same movement?
They operate as a kind of dialectic with the antics of both sides serving to strengthen the other. Under the hood they share the same intellectual foundation in biological determinism, identity politics, postmodernism, and anti-rationalism.
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#10Wow, this is really reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution. These retaliatory attitudes towards 'white' people are hostile and racist and do not work towards building an inclusive society. Edit: Why was this flagged?
When your enemies are by definition bad, and your side is by definition good, you can do anything. Any evil is excusable, because it's done by "good" people against the "bad" people.
The people advocating this idiocy are unaware of history. The end result of their advocacy is genocide. They will end up being accused of the things they oppose, by people even more radical than themselves.
For me, all of the despotic ideologies are the same. This kind of political correctness, communism, anti-semitism, etc. They all want "good" people to destroy the "bad" people.
Reality be damned. Consequences be damned. Humanity be damned.