WOW! Disgusting Campus Chaos Caught On Video and Covfefe Shuts Down The World 

Hope you have a great covfefe you beautiful bastards! Also if possible try to keep the comment section...well...the opposite of what we saw in those videos.

Okay these students are pretty much bullying faculty at this point. I'm all for equality and inclusion, but if the man had claustrophobia legitimately that's belittling mental health.

If I am having open heart surgery then I hope the person who is operating on me to have gotten the job on merit alone, and not someone who came in second but got hired instead to fill some sort of race quota.

The students just made complete asses out of themselves. If your going to question someone, you better be willing to listen to the answers.

Oh my fucking god, that campus video made me irrationally angry. I'd describe myself as very liberal, but holy shit, how do they not realize they're the racist ones in that situation.

They don't want to turn in their assignments? Flunk em all, make em pay for an extra semester and show them how the real world works. I'm anti-racism but I'm also college educated and I know better.

Hiring people based on their skill is actually true equality. By doing this, you are judging people by who they are instead of their skin color.

I am very confused by this college professor story. From what I have gathered, these students are rallying against someone who wants them to have educated professors no matter the color of their skin and for people to not be oppressed. So basically they are hurting someone who is only trying to help them. Also they obviously don't know about respect because they are demanding things from educators in such a hostile way that will get them nowhere, as if they deserve it just because of their skin color which doesn't seem right, but who am I to judge I don't know them or the full situation

As a black woman who firmly believes in the uplifting and accountability of my race through means of protest and activism, I am livid at whats happening at that college. All I see is blind misplaced rage. Kids fighting a fight against people not threatning them in any way. The blatant hypocrisy is astounding and disturbing. Most of them probably view themselves as the new wave liberal and activist counter culture but I see nothing here that reflects their supposed message. Theyre crude, threatning, and obnoxious. I understand anger or feeling as though you are not being heard or understood. But being able to step back and put emotions aside to actually create an atmosphere of discussion and to actually move forward is the way to go. In essence let go so you can move forward. Its like they read the email, only saw "no" and went from there without critically thinking.

These students are out of line. The teacher pushed for facility to be hired for their qualifications, not their skin color- *that's the exact opposite of racism*. Then the teacher says that maybe part of the college shouldn't be *forced* off the campus for a day, _and they stop him and yell at him?!_ Not to mention how rude and insulting they were to the school president.

What those students effectively did was chant "What do we want? Answers! When do we want them? NEVER!" Good job.

I call myself a progressive and am generally left leaning, I am an 18 year old, mixed race, female college student in SoCal. I completely and utterly AGREE with what Mr. Weinstein says. You do not combat racism with racism, you do not fix the past oppression of races with the oppression of other races. The U.S. is so obsessed with race it is ridiculous. We are humans, we are Americans, the colors of our skins do not matter. No one should be kicked off of campus no matter your race, no one should be selected based on their skin color rather than their skill, and no one should be denied something because of their race. Black, white, red, brown, green, purple or blue. It is that simple. I am extremely disappointed and appalled at the students at Evergreen State College. They choose to be ignorant by not genuinely listening to Mr. Weinstein's point of view, whether it changed their minds or not. You CAN be racist towards white people, just like any other race. How hard is that to understand?

that point when you said "its things like these that pushed me away from being a liberal" is so accurate and relevant today. many people must feel this way too.

This whole school thing is absolutely horrible. Like the guy didn't even say anything bad! To me it wasn't racist at all. He just wants to hire teachers who know what they are doing and not hire them just cause the school has some race quota to meet or something. Also it is really different to have a race simply want to , for lack of a better word, boycott a place to show they are needed versus forcing a race out of a place and saying no you CAN'T be here. How is that not racist?! My heart goes out to all those poor faculty members getting shit for no reason, those kids are just angry to be angry It also seems like they are protesting to be excused from school or to get attention on the internet like everyone is going to be on their side at fear of being called racist.

When the students stormed the Dean's office, and were presenting their demands, it seemed to me like they just wanted to get out of doing their homework.

I don't see how the email is racist.

They didn't even allow the man to have a conversation!!! They are taking it to a new level...wtf this is straight bullying...FOH!!!! Ppl get me so mad 🙄😡

Those university students should all be expelled, imo. There's no need for people like that in society.

Those students have no idea what they're fighting for anymore. It's an excuse to act out and not have to do school work

SMH - This is pure entitlement, as far as I can tell, I agree with his email, it is completely different when you stage a walkout, but how can you expect people to be FORCED out? I do understand that 50 years ago this happened, but why would we take a step backwards?

Note to self, never go to a liberal arts college.

As someone who transferred away from Evergreen to another school, this is not uncommon behavior for the student body there. They are what many would consider stereotypical professional victims.

Those students aren't fighting for justice in any form. They're fighting for means to take advantage of their teachers and their school. This is extremely sad to think that this has become the new norm.

I go to a fairly liberal university in the U.K., but if that was done to a lecturer here, those students would be expelled for harassment and threats to faculty

"We didn't corner or block him in. Only when he was trying to leave" Good fucking lord.

As someone who currently goes to a small liberal arts college, I have to strongly disagree with what the students are saying. The point of a liberal arts college is to get you out of your comfort zone, to try new things, and explore the world around you. By shutting down professors who are trying to challenge you, you end up losing the core reason of the liberal arts.

That teacher has a higher level of consciousness than these immature children could ever hope to attain. It's really sad the world we live in, where in order to overcome oppression many groups feel the need to oppress others. This is what was meant by "an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind". You're right, Phil. This is disgusting.

I am seriously embarrassed to be a liberal leaning human right now. these students' actions are the reason why conservatives are unable to take anything we say seriously.

Felt bad for the guy who said he has claustrophobia. I would probably have an anxiety attack in that situation.

I'm on the side with the teacher, and any student saying 'lemme tell you what I need' is not listening to the 'this is why, if you have an issue, let's have a conversation'. Demands are not conversations. Demands are one sided, and to have a one sided conversation is basically shouting at a brick wall.

As a Black male myself, I believe that Evergreen's community after this man wanted change and just asked something simple of the community, and he got backlash. They then took it upon themselves to basically RIOT. They believe they were protesting, I believe they were rioting. Its absolutely disgusting and they may need to be punished.

The girl saying that the faculty should know about this protest so that the students do not get penalized is a new level of stupid. They are protesting on their own time so they need to take responsibility for their own actions.

The fucking fingersnapping. Because clapping is too triggering.

Honestly, on the campus story, I think that it's perfectly ok if Black people don't go to college on that day. However, trying to kick another group off campus if they do want to be there is a different thing entirely. Also, the entire email incident where the want the dude fired is completely wrong. He was voicing his opinion that people wouldn't be happy if they weren't allowed to go to school on one day, because that would be discrimination. Now the students. Oh boy. They have no right to yell at the teachers that are just trying to do their jobs, and go about their day peacefully, and in my opinion (because free speech is a thing) that was totally inappropriate. They also have no right to storm the presidents office and demand that email guy (that's his name now since I don't really feel like re-watching the section) be fired, just because he tried to say that people wouldn't be happy being kicked off campus for a day. In my opinion the "protestors" went across the line.

MLK is rolling over in his grave because of what those kids were and are still saying. They're going against everything he stood for--that people ought to be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

These students' actions are unacceptable. They are speaking out against a guy who didn't want to leave the school *based on the color of his skin*, how is that in anyway racist? More so they stop him, refuse to let him speak, and insult the teacher and the school president over a statement against hiring teachers based on their qualifications, *not their race*. The facility and staff need to have consequences for these people.

I’m a person of colour and I simply can’t understand how the email could POSSIBLY be even somewhat rascist.

Man 1: "Would you like to hear the answer?" Man 2: "No!" Persuasion Attempt failed.

I am very heavily liberal, and I don't agree at all with what these students are doing. It really upsets me to see them doing things like this. You can't just force a certain ethnicity to leave the school for an entire day to cater to another ethnicity. If it was any other race they were kicking out for the day it would be a huge racists thing, but because its the white students who are paying thousands of dollars to get a higher education its suddenly ok in their eyes? I hate this double standard when it comes to racism. Any ethnicity can be racist, and just because white people did a lot of absolutely terrible things in the past, everyone's just allowed to throw shit at us at any time now and its not racist? You can't say doing something to one race is racist and have it not be racist to another.

As an African American, I've grown to be disgusted with the discourse on college campuses. People assuming you are for their movement based off race. The sheer amount of hypocrisy and irony is astonishing. When I discuss religion, immigration, or freedom of speech, everyone is agreement except for when it comes to questioning the group they identify with. When people start to regard the color of their skin or choice of their religion as defining characteristics of who they are, rather than the content of their character, society begins to devolve. We've reached a point where those who once were held back by religion, ethnicity, or gender are ironically using the same arguments that once held them back for a fair shake at the table.

These are kids who think they're adults.

Those kids are so unbelievably disrespectful, my goodness. Who talks to the president of your college like that, those kids need to grow up and act like adults.

What those students did at Evergreen State is disgusting. It's bigoted to shut down a conversation and not even listen to someone simply because they do not fit your agenda. They need some real schooling. And this is coming from a 14 year old.

As someone who has grown up in Washington, I know that Evergreen has a reputation for having a number of students who tend towards the extreme left. I'm not surprised this happened, but I am very disappointed. Cornering a professor and not allowing him to explain himself not only suppresses his rights, but suppresses a chance at meaningful conversation and lasting change. Instead of calmly expressing their thoughts and feelings, these students made it very clear that they had no intention of hearing the professor out. It is so frustrating to see people refuse to hear thoughts/opinions/feelings that differ from their own. Regardless of how you feel about what the Professor wrote in his email, the events that followed are completely unacceptable.

I'm late, but I hope these students see the backlash they've created and actually take everyone's rational comments into consideration because this behavior is completely unacceptable.

So that first story really angered me... As a Latino American I've had to face my share of discrimination and racism. I've been belittled, told I'm worthless, poor, and dirty because I come from a poor and dirty country. What worse is seeing my parents face it as well; knowing that they don't have the words to defend themselves. Growing up I decided to fight thru it and rise above it. To work for my passion and let my work speak for my value and not my ethnicity. Same goes for my college professors, managers, and coworkers. I've had professors teach me many amazing things and professors who needed help from the class to teach. I've had managers who've been great at their jobs and others whom I've questioned how they got their position. I don't want to get a job simply to be a token Mexican or have a bad mentor simply because they needed to balance out the diversity in the staff. And to the girl telling the president who has claustrophobia that "PoC deal with tough environments everyday" FUCK YOU... I'm claustrophobic and as someone who's had to deal with racism since I could remember, I don't want anyone, ANYONE, to go thru what I've gone thru, whether White, Black, Latino, Asian, etc. I want equality. To be treated according to my character not my ethnicity. If you rise above discrimination and hate only to discriminate and hate another group of people, then you are no better than those who oppressed you. YES, white Americans have been the majority of people who have been racist towards me but I do not hate white people and will not disrespect or treat a white person poorly simply because some other white guy called me a spic. You should be ashamed to call yourself a person who cares about equality and people of color.

Those students are absolutely disgraceful. No matter what the point you're trying to make is, or how valid it is, it's no excuse to threaten and intimidate people, ESPECIALLY, teachers and professors who are trying to educate you.

I'm completely in agreement with the professor on the whole "give the most qualified person the job" (and the other thing), If I had to hire a person to do some work for me, I'd hire them for what they could do, not race, color, religion... etc And I love how they just shout and then cheer for each other, even if they were right, it doesn't matter after what they did, if anything is holding back progressiveness, ironically it is those people! Oh, and it is funny how they actually can't or don't want to have a productive conversation that could make everybody's life easier...

Okay, Right. (DISCLAIMER) I'm just out of uni myself, and to qualify anyone to accuse me of various labels; I'm a white, queer, disabled, mentally ill person who has to use food banks to eat. i got one year of uni and then dropped out because IT'S SO EXPENSIVE. I'm also british ) I protested a lot as a student, the one that sticks out is a sit in outside the offices of the deputy head because they refused to allow students to publicly transition in school; it was a single sex school, but we had male students come here for certain subjects. They insisted they couldn't change our name on the system, but there was a "nickname" section which could be edited at any time by faculty and it was policy to refer to the student by their nickname. We did our research (2010 equality act) and then sat in until listened to; we then presented our argument to the teachers with 4 elected protesters so as not to overwhelm the meeting, and got school policy changed to allow kids to transition, wear trousers instead of skirts etc. we also tackled issues related to disability etc. Another occasion we did the EXACT SAME THING to protest a teacher putting in place a restrictive and outrageous rule that insisted that we all bought expensive suits to wear to school in high school, which wtf? THAT is how you tackle faculty being fuckheads. You don't falsely imprison them, scream at them, or sass them. You bone up on your rights, organise a seriously inconvenient protest, hold it til they listen, and then get some kind of result; only if THE FACULTY become violent do you have the right to do the same. In this case i don't think they even have a case, and half of the kids should be expelled for manipulating events to get more time on their assignments.

These kids are monsters. They are not having an level headed conversations with any of the faculty. They are screaming and acting like entitled brats who only calm down for a minute when they get called out on their shit. Being a liberal myself, this makes me cringe.

sorry to break it to you but the real world does not tolerate ludicrous behavior like that. so scream at your teachers all your want but when you get bad scores on projects and you wonder why and you fail their class don't cry to them just realize what kind of hole you dug yourself and accept their is nothing you can do about it.

As a "person of colour", I despise what these students stand for. I hate how morally justified they think they are, I hate how tone-deaf to their own hypocrisy they are. I absolutely hate it. Exclusion has never, and will never be the way toward progress.

Okay, I'm sorry, but those students were absolutely out of line. A conversation is not cornering a person, screaming at them like they are a dog and then when they try to answer the question, gets told no, they don't want to hear it. Then they say they aren't doing their coursework in protest AND that poor guy... I can't even believe they weren't leaving even though he clearly has claustrophobia and was uncomfortable. That's just wrong on so many levels. This completely took away from the initial reason for their anger in the first place. I am more disgusted at their behavior than I am at the teacher that wrote the email.

I think the campus story was really annoying to me honestly. Choosing teachers SHOULD be based on skill, that's not racist, who cares what color they are, you should care about how well of a teacher they are. Also colored people chose to leave the campus to show their impact, importance and how they can improve their campus. Saying their should be a white absence is forcing it on them without them wanting to. The black absence had good intentions to improve campus, but the white one is with no intention and it's literally just being racist. I'm white and I wouldn't want to do it, and the fact is that the students wouldn't even let him explain his point and cornering him is disgusting to me.

How could talk to their teacher like that (get the fuck out)... so disrespectful

"We tried to have a conversation with him..." Bullshit. A conversation is not cornering someone and outright refusing to hear an answer.

I am a militant advocate for free speech and free thought EVEN when that speech doesn't agree with my own politics. I guess you could say I am an "old school" liberal and not a regressive leftist. What type of insecurity do these weak crybabies have when they react this way? The juvenile way these self-entitled brats (many who come from middle-class backgrounds) acted towards Bret and other faculty, it is apparent that we now have a new Red Guard in action. Yet he remained calm, collected and rational like a complete gentleman. Ultimately, they are responsible for their own backlash. Their intolerance is from the indoctrination of corrupt social science departments currently being taught in academia. For the last 45 years, it is the same stale claptrap coming from left-wing radical Neo-Marxist ideologues (based on the passé French Post-Structuralists like Derrida and Foucault), many who don't deserve to be called professors. Good video presentation Phillip!

As an engineering student, I agree with the professor. Professors and faculty should be hired based on skill - not ethnicity, religion, etc. I frankly don't care about anything other than a professor's skill; if they can teach well and produce research, that is the only requirement. I feel the students are very ignorant. And this is coming from a Canadian Liberal (which is WAY more left than your conservatives in the US; in fact, our conservatives are the most right wing party in Canada).

Dont get me wrong. I live in an European country. And shit like that wouldnt fly on university grounds. We have a code of conduct, and enforce it. One thing is disagreeing with your teachers, where you can express your viewpoint coherently. another is blatant disrespect. People would get expelled so fast their heads would spin in the process. And obviously he is right. You want the best person for the job. Not someone to fill a quota. Imagine if you were having life saving surgery, but your surgeon was there to fill a quota. How would you feel about that? And Katie Griffin played herself. She was expecting the reaction to be polarizing, but not like that. She was expecting "trump supporters" to abrasive, but democrats\libs to be "Hell yeah, she's saying what we're thinking". But it's just bad taste. Not humor. It's borderline insulting to the people that were beheaded by terrorists (the image of James Foley last moments comes to mind). And damn you Phil, for taking my analogy shortly after I thought of it, regarding "what if this was a president you endorsed?". The only reason she apologized is not because she thought it over and regretted what she did. She apologized because she saw the shit storm that she brew wasnt what she expected, and it could be a career ending move if she did not act fast. Regardless, she has celebrity status, so Secret Service wont harass her or bully her. If this was done by someone without that umbrella, they'd be detained without charge for so long that it wouldnt be even funny. And NDAA allows that.

I'm a liberal and fairly young but seeing these students act the way they did just makes me question their ideals. I'm brown myself but these students are trying so hard to be oppressed in situations where there is no sign of oppression. Its fucking pathetic. The Weinstien guy had a lot of logic behind his reasoning. Hiring someone should be based on skill, if there are legit qualified coloured candidates being ignored...thats another issue. Also you can't force a whole race not to turn up somewhere, especially a place of education. The idea of not going somewhere as a protest and getting together to have a discussion makes complete sense. But to make and force white people to not turn up so it could be a flipped experience based on apartheid is fucking disgusting. These arragont and naive students are just completely counter productive to what liberals are trying to achieve. They have no logic and intellect to their decisions.

Imagine what would've happen if the roles were reverse.

I understand that racism is still a real thing but these people don't seem to really grasp the real meaning of the concept. This teacher literally talked about how he wanted the best faculty for the university regardless of skin colour, just because he said the teacher doesn't have to be black doesn't mean this guy is racist. Having diversity in school is amazing but whether you're black white or green doesn't mean they should hire you over someone that more qualified for the job. Honestly it makes me think like this students just felt like creating an unnecessary conflict.

Damn... I'm a black college student that leans to the left and I had a serious problem with all that. They're doing a complete disservice to themselves by not communicating in an adult, respectful way. I get being emotional but that was absolutely ridiculous. At my college last year there was a hate crime on campus against a group of black students, and the campus came together and had a great public forum open to any students or faculty/staff with concerns. Everybody was incredibly respectful, and though it got emotional and somewhat tense at times a lot seemed to get hashed out and our campus community really came together and created some great events and fundraisers to raise awareness and bring people together. I really hope people don't look at all college students, liberals, or black people negatively because of their bullshit because this really isn't how educated adults act. They should be ashamed.

At 23 years young I realized very quickly that during my college years I was a total moron. My perceptions about reality and the world were way off, and I look back to just two years ago and think, "wow, how was I that stupid?" Why is no one putting these children in their place? i was lucky enough to have more experienced adults in my life to tell me how things actually are. These spineless teachers are doing a disservice to these students by allowing them to behave without consequence. "Do our teachers know we don't plan on doing any homework? We shouldn't be penalized for that." "Sure minority student, I don't want to offend you so of course you don't have to do homework." How does this kind of thinking help anyone?

I'm not gonna say every group is like this, but it baffles and amazes me when minority groups scream about racism and equality.. Then turn around, and be racist against white people, while saying that somehow hate and discrimination of anyone with pale skin isn't racist. And just in case anyone honestly thinks that isn't racism, let me get a definition for you: "Racism, Noun: the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races." SO technically, even spouting about white people having 'white privilege' is a form of racism. Food for thought.

Those students acted super irrationally. The poor man was trying to say that nothing should be based on the color of your skin and that people should be hired because of how skilled they are for the job not for their appearance. Yet somehow, somehow! the students took this as racist?! Alright first of all, no wonder this is happening at a liberal arts college because nothing racist is being acted upon nor advertised at the school. The students just ignored everything the professor stated and only heard "i dont think it's right for white people to also have an off day." Look i get it, we want equality, but this is a school, a place to learn. the school says that the children are discussing matters that could help the school, but let's be real, they are probably just chilling at home being like "woo! no school for a day because I'm a 'minority'". People need to stop bringing the idea of race into everything, and that is what the professor was trying to say, but the over dramatic students didn't think anything about what he said that they just blew up on him. I bet most of those students don't even know what the professor actually said and only acted based on a bad rumor. I feel deeply sorry for those teachers; the students made absolute fools of themselves and need to profusely apologize to the poor professors they antagonized. I hope all those students who took part in those "conversations" get some form of punishment. They weren't even trying to be decent human beings; they were rude and aggressive, and they didn't even want to hear the professor's side of the argument. This leads me to believe that the students only did that for the publicity online, and that is just cold. I apologize for ranting this much, but those students really got on my nerves, and it makes me sad that older generations will see that and believe all younger generations will be like that. i hope by the time I'm an adult, this will never be an issue, but a person could only dream.

Fuck every student disrespecting the faculty that work for them because of their opinions. Weinstein has a very positive opinion/outlook on equality for everyone and he's being shut down by people who seem to not understand that. It's unbelievably frustrating that people are reacting so negatively to that statement.

Every single student involved in that needs to be expelled.

I totally agree with what you said about the college students. He was simply stating his opinion and what his plans were the day that they wanted all whites to leave campus.

You don't get to corner people and scream at them. You don't get to storm someone's office and demand that they email your professors to let you off of assignments (which by the way is your responsibility. If you would like to protest or otherwise be out of class, it is your job to inform your professors). I don't care what race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, etc. you are, there are certain behaviors that are not acceptable and they wash out your message. And I hope evergreen doesn't bow to the whims of these young adults who are harassing and terrorizing their peers and teachers. I'm tired of colleges cow towing to incidents like this. This does not encourage civil discourse, it does not encourage a safe learning environment.

"We tried to talk to him" "Do you want to hear the answer or not?" "NO"

personally the students are just shouting at him with no mercy and not having a conversation. How can they progress if they don't communicate. Whether he was in the wrong or not, I personally don't think so, he shouldn't be judged too much because of his opinion.

8:03 I was flipping through a notebook of mine from yesteryear one day. In the middle was a long stretch of blank pages, as I am wont to do (my notebook etiquette is terrible). I flipped them quickly, trying to find the place I must have randomly picked back up again. Smack dab in the middle of the blank pages were two insults I have no recollection of writing but are in my awful scrawl, and they remain my favourite insults to this day: 'Douche-canoe' and 'Twat waffle' I don't know what prompted me to write them down in such an odd place, but I have no regrets.

Wait, they want him to resign because he wanted teachers to be hired based of skill rather than color? Rather than getting a good education, they want more equality? I'm all for equality, but I believe we should prioritize skill.

That email was like. So not racist?? It seemed pretty inclusive to me..? Those students need to be expelled.

As a student in college studying network engineering, I am disgusted by those students harassing the faculty. Nothing about what he wants changed is racist, it makes skill the biggest hiring factor. If I am going to be taking a class, I want the best instructor I can get who was the most qualified person the school interviewed. I am lucky as I attend a small school next to the Microsoft campus and have a lot of very talented instructors because of this location. It’s sad to think they don’t want the best education possible….

Do we need to start teaching classes on how to properly protest so that students stop turning into a mob of overly aggressive and whiny 5 year olds in order to get what they want? Granted, the rest of us aren’t much better. But...man! Schools have a clear authority structure that should be respected.

Blocking people from campus based on skin color is racist, regardless of which skin color that is. I completely support having open discussions about racism that happens on campus and how to combat it, but maybe all colors should be involved in those discussions.

As an educator and university student, I'm annoyed that the students were asking their principal or dean to send a mass email to excuse their homework assignments. Professors put assignments in the syllabus at the beginning of the term, you had plenty of time to do it. You can still protest or participate in your cause and do your homework. As for missing class for the Day of Absence, I can see a professor being more lenient on that.

I feel so much rage towards the students at Evergreen college. The idiocy and hypocrisy makes me sick.

Kathy is now playing the victim now. people never learn.

man what has it come to when saying that the best person should get the job is a racist statement

Personally I completely agree with Bret, getting a job should be exclusively about your capacity to perform that job. Race, gender and other factors should be completely irrelevant. I also agree with his stance relating to the Excluding white people day. I think it is a real shame that all these students are actively trying to shut down the honest conversation that could occur here with their hate-blinded actions.

This reaction is toxic and negative. Colleges are supposed to be centres of discussion exploring differing ideas and opinions. But instead these students are shutting down any dissenting opinions and are fear mongering people into conforming to their political beliefs, the danger posed by this can't be understated....

Not a fan of racism myself but when you're going berserk at someone for being racist then you fall into their stereotype and fuel their racism further. Common sense.

As a college student, I feel ashamed that these students will be the "leaders"of our future and I am terrified. Just because you're upset about an issue, does not give you the right to harass the faculty. The videos were a great example of mob mentality and how detrimental it is. All I saw in the videos were mobs of people, who can barely structure their own complaints and listen to a response, attack the professors and faculty of the school. Sad and pathetic.

I'm disappointed in those students, being a college student myself it is blatantly obvious that there wasnt any formal or organized effort to achieving their goal... they didn't let anyone on the opposite side participate in the conversation. there was just a lot of yelling and was hard to watch.

Those kids wanting the president of the university to tell teachers not to penalize late assignments because of there protest. That's going to translate well into the workforce

"These racist teachers gotta go" tf did she do lmao she just like " I'm just trying to get some lunch please move"

"Would you like to hear the answer or not?" "No." - it doesn't sound like any conversation it just seems like they are upset so they are looking for someone to scream at, threaten, and harass. Saying they need to let their teachers know they are on some sort of strike so they can't turn in their homework just sounds like an excuse to not go to classes? They are there paying to get education.... Why are they harassing the school over something so simple.

As a African American and currently a third year in medical school I agree with the president of that school. I suggest avoid racist teachers and develop some type of screening... but I want my education from the BEST. If they are all white, all black, all Asian... SO BE IT! Don't let petty stuff limit your education. (But if a teacher/ anyone proves to be racist etc. REMOVE THEM)

I didn't choose the covfefe life, the covfefe life chofveve meveve

I'm pissed about this campus bullshit. A place of learning occupied by people who refuse to listen.

oh my god watching those people harass those teachers makes me so god damn fucking angry like are you kidding me. It's fucking ridiculous

I think most of us are in agreement that what the students did is wrong, and that the professor had a valid point. What I want to know is, how can we make the students who are doing this see the hypocrisy and wrongfulness of their actions? What's the best way to reason with these people? Constructive answers from anyone are appreciated but I would be especially interested in hearing from Phillip himself, seeing as he's done a pretty good job of fostering good discourse in his audience already.

Other fact about Evergreen State College y'all should know: Here in WA, one of the most liberal states in America, that college is seen as a "Hippie Haven." Like, they dont believe in giving grades there. Just saying.

I don't think it's wrong to hire people because they are, you know, qualified to do the job. Why am I paying money to go to college if I know that they aren't trying to hire the most qualified to teach, but rather because of their race? I want to learn from the best. If they are qualified to teach, and can teach well, I don't care what race they are. The 'students' are frustrating to say the least. I'm all for people protesting whatever they believe in, but if you just shut down all kinds of conversation with people that have different opinions than yours then you just seem close minded and it just hurts your cause.

That girl said "we are here on our own time". Yes, did you think that protesting and speaking with the president of the university about various issues is classwork? And also that they didn't want to get penalized for not turning in assignments... the purpose of that institution is to educate and not cater to their protests or what they do on their free time. Protesting for a cause you believe in is more than okay with most reasonable people but if you don't get you job or schoolwork done while doing that it's absolutely on you.

The very first thing students should sign as a contract of entering a college campus: In the interest of a campus that is open and inclusive to the marketplace of ideas, the college requires that the following rules be acknowledged and followed. I hereby affirm that I will respect the space, life, and difference of opinion of all students, faculty, administration,and visitors by complying with the following: 1. Any physical threat, vandalism or the explicit promotion of physical violence will be met with suspension or possible expulsion. Any attempt to purposefully interrupt, delay, remove or otherwise hinder the work of any staff or officially sanctioned speaker on campus will be met with suspension or possible expulsion. 2. The college does not predicate the dismissal of staff or students on the basis of personal beliefs, unless such personal belief puts them in violation of the terms of paragraph 1. 3. Protests are acceptable provided that they do not violate the terms of paragraph 1.

I'm very left leaning and even I agree that the students are completely out of line. You don't resolve issues by shouting at your professors and college deans. As Phil was reading the email he sent out I didn't find anything wrong with it. I agree, if you want to form your own protest, by all means do it. It's your right to protest. But to ask other students to stay away from the campus? That's ludicrous.