This dialogue between @BretWeinstein and students at Evergreen State is just... horrifying. This is what happens when one party is trying desperately to have a conversation and the other party is intent on using language as indiscriminate weaponryhttps://youtu.be/AOht7EXA8hs?t=316 …
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Some excerpts — Bret: I believe I've heard what you have to say. I don't believe you've heard me. Okay? Those emails do not say what you think they said. Student: Then why is there this pervasive feeling on campus that they do?
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Student: Well, [???]. Let society fall. Bret: Well, let society fall — you can't have society fall on a world with 400 nuclear reactors that have to be managed by somebody every day of every week. Society has to deal with its shit, no question. But it can't come apart.
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Student: Every single time you said something, you had students, you had faculty of color, women, women faculty tell you maybe you're wrong. Right? So why did you continue? Bret: Well, first of all, I don't think that's how right and wrong works.
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Bret: Right and wrong are a matter of reason and logic, and nobody has a claim on these Student: And I think that's the biggest problem that you're having. You're seeing this logic purely in a [...] reasoning way, as a scientist. That's legit. But we are on a liberal arts campus
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"But we are a liberal arts campus"pic.twitter.com/VcMvZ2nzLb
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