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This Week in Stupid (04⧸06⧸2017)

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	Hello everyone, welcome to this week in Stupid for the 4th of June 2017.
	This week we're going to start by talking about Evergreen State College, because an awful lot of footage has come out of Evergreen State regarding the Brett Weinstein incident and the college's reaction and various other things.
	So to start with, I'm going to play a selection of clips that will give you an impression of what's happening there.
	Right.
	It's not an accident.
	That shit is systematic as fuck.
	I always said they'll be here.
	I said, I'm tired of white people talking about what black and brown people need.
	You don't know.
	I'm just trying to respond.
	Okay.
	Is it all these black women and fams doing all this emotional labor in this space?
	These white-ass faculty members need to be holding him and him and all these people accountable.
	Look at that!
	Right.
	And so I'm telling you, you're speaking to your ancestor.
	We built these cities, right?
	You've had civilization way before you ever had.
	Right.
	Coming out your caves, okay?
	So if you've been watching my channel for a while, you will be aware of what we're dealing with.
	What have become gangs of radicalized students railing against their own professors and their own university after being inculcated into postmodernist bullshit by their radical neo-Marxist professors.
	And this is the inevitable outgrowth.
	Fortunately, the radical professors who I suspect are probably responsible for this state of affairs have revealed themselves by signing their name to a letter that was a demand for punishment of Brett Weinstein for his refusal to leave on the anti-white day as College Fix describes it.
	More than 50 professors at the college, nearly a quarter of the faculty, have signed a statement as of Friday afternoon calling themselves angry, frustrated and concerned by the backlash against students in the university after the students have effectively taken over the university and effectively held the president of the university hostage.
	They demanded Weinstein be published for his response to the students who cornered him and called him a racist after he refused to leave campus on the anti-white day of absence.
	This is how they began the statement.
	As evergreen faculty members, we acknowledge that all of us who have power within the institution share responsibility for the racist actions of others.
	Furthermore, those of us who are white bear a particularly large share of that responsibility.
	We acknowledge that we have a great deal of work to do in order to honour and live up to the demands made by the student leaders during last week's protests.
	Now, if you're anything like me, you were probably thinking, wow, that is the complete opposite of my opinion as to what the solution to this problem is.
	I do not think appeasement and capitulation are a solution to gangs of radicalized students.
	Personally, I would dismiss these students without a second thought.
	The very idea that they think they are justified in doing this is absurd to me.
	The fact that they not only undermine the authority of the university and the faculty, but in fact try to impose their own will on the faculty themselves on the basis that the faculty are mostly white and they aren't, is just incredible to me, but this is where we are.
	And when I say appeasement, I really mean it.
	They say, in solidarity with students, we commit ourselves to participating actively and self-critically in the annual mandatory trainings specified in the Memorandum of Understanding recently signed by the UFE and management bargaining teams,
	holding each other accountable when we act in racist ways against our colleagues or our students, according to shared language and understanding developed in the trainings, holding President Bridges accountable to the promises he made at the all-campus forum and to process the ongoing dialogue with student leaders,
	actively supporting the strategic plan put forward by the Equity and Inclusion Council, including providing substantive support to the Vice President and Vice Provost of Equality and Inclusion tasked with implementing and extending their work.
	They seem to be actively forming a power block within the university to take on the hierarchical structure of the university itself, which makes complete sense if you bear in mind these people are probably all radical socialists.
	They say, in solidarity with students, we call for the Evergreen administration to center student perspectives in persistent media approach to counter the alt-right narratives that are demonizing Evergreen and Day of Absence specifically.
	Take seriously the threats made to individual community members and use all available institutional resources to protect them.
	Demonstrate accountability by pursuing a disciplinary investigation against Brett Weinstein, according to guidelines in the Social Contract and Faculty Handbook.
	Weinstein has endangered faculty, staff, and students, making them the target of white supremacist backlash by promulgating information in public emails on national television, in news outlets, and on social media.
	I just want to remind everyone that, as far as I'm aware, Weinstein has done nothing wrong in this situation, and these people call everyone white supremacists.
	George Bridges, the president of the college, the man who seems to be phenomenally under the thumb of these students, responded in a lengthy email.
	I'll read a section of it here.
	We demand that Officer Timothy O'Dell be fired and suspended without pay while an investigation takes place.
	We demand the immediate firing of Andrea Siebert Olson from all Evergreen College positions.
	We demand that Brett Weinstein be suspended immediately without pay, but all students receive full credit.
	These are apparently demands they have made of him.
	He says, we do not and will not fire any employees in response to a request.
	We do take complaints seriously.
	We have a college non-discrimination policy which applies to all members of our community.
	Following any complaint of discrimination, we will conduct a full investigation.
	If it is found that discrimination occurred, action is taken.
	The nature of that action is not released because in order to protect the privacy of those involved, we recommit to the progressive discipline processes established with our union bargaining units and the state of Washington.
	So he at least has the stones to refuse to outright fire these people on the demands of the faculty and students.
	However, I suspect he's probably simply protecting himself from lawsuits.
	There was also a threat called into Evergreen College, and at first I expected it to be a false flag, but after listening to it, I suspect it is a concerned citizen who is seeing from the outside what is happening and would like it to stop.
	This is the threat itself.
	Dispatch.
	Hello?
	Hello, dispatch.
	Can I help you?
	Yes, I'm on my way to Evergreen University now with a .44 Magnum.
	I'm going to execute as many people on that campus as I can get a hold of.
	You have that?
	What's going on there, you communist scumbag pound?
	I'm going to murder as many people on that campus as I can.
	Sir.
	Just keep your eyes open, you scumbag.
	Okay, sir, how long before you're going to be?
	I'll just take this opportunity to stress that you must not commit any acts of violence or level any threats of violence against anyone involved in any of this for any reason.
	This is not only illegal, it's also immoral to threaten to do something like this, but it's also phenomenally counterproductive, because this gives them force behind their arguments that they are under threat, which until now they were not.
	This is a terrible thing to do.
	The only way to fight this is through legislative processes.
	We consider democracies to be the best form of governance for a reason, because the public can and do express themselves using them.
	Taking vigilante action is not only undemocratic, but totally, totally the wrong thing to do.
	One thing you could do is support the National Review's call to defund Evergreen State College.
	Referring to the students, they say, the threat of violence has suppressed open discourse at Evergreen State, and the administration has assisted the student mob at every step of the way.
	They're completely right, and threatening violence from the other side, regardless of who's doing it, will simply invalidate the idea of the moral high ground that people are operating from when arguing to have the state college defunded.
	Weinstein told Dave Rubin that he did not personally blame Bridges for the mob fury, and that while protesters have plunged Evergreen State into crisis, the school itself is composed of learning communities that really function.
	And I'm sure they do.
	But the problem is, if they have been infested by a cancer that has begun to work its way up the rungs of the university to the point where they have effectively corralled the president of the university and is now trying to force him to capitulate to demands, some kind of action must be taken.
	A National Review point out that public funding constitutes almost half of Evergreen's annual revenue.
	$55.2 million from state appropriations and $32.3 million from state and federal grants.
	A public college that cannot defend the First Amendment or even the basic safety of its professors doesn't deserve a cent of taxpayers' money.
	And I agree.
	If these universities wish to foster and inculcate students into activist disciplines that see them turn on their own professors and university, then let them be privately funded like Scientology.
	This is not in the public interest, and the public should not be required to pay for this.
	And campus reform has reported that the Washington state legislators have finally reached the same conclusion.
	Lawmakers led by Republican Representative Matt Manuela have introduced a bill to revoke $24 million in annual funding from the school immediately.
	It's not clear whether this is going to go through, as there is undoubtedly going to be opposition to this, but at least someone is doing something.
	Manuela said, these students in their administration are trying to undo the civil rights movement.
	They are trying to reinstitute a Jim Crow approach to education that Americans rejected over 50 years ago.
	I completely agree.
	They are actually segregationists who are being created in these universities.
	This has to be stopped.
	I am in complete support of defunding any public money from any universities that are radicalising their students in this way.
	And interestingly, this brings us to George Soros' accusation towards Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban that he is running a mafia state.
	The war of words between George Soros and Viktor Orban is threatening to boil over off the billionaire philanthropist claimed Hungary is a mafia state posing as a democracy.
	He says, Orban sought to frame his policies in a personal conflict between the two of us, and has made me the target of his unrelenting propaganda campaign.
	The speech was Soros' first public comment in response to the controversial bill proposed in April which threatens to close his Central European University.
	Orban cast himself in the role of the defender of Hungarian sovereignty, and Mia is a shady currency speculator who uses his money to flood Europe, particularly his native Hungary, with illegal immigrants as part of some vague but nefarious plot.
	We'll take a quick look at another article just to see what Soros' opinions on this are.
	This is an article on Bloomberg from last September where Orban had accused Soros of stoking refugee wave to weaken Europe.
	Orban accused Soros of being a prominent member of a circle of activists trying to undermine European nations by supporting refugees heading to the continent from the Middle East and beyond.
	He says, These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become of this international human smuggling network.
	Pretty strong statements, so what does Soros say in reply to this?
	In an emailed statement, Soros said that a six-point plan published by his foundation helps uphold European values, while Orban's actions undermines those values.
	His plan treats the protection of national borders as the objective and the refugees as an obstacle, he said in the statement.
	Our plan treats the protection of refugees as the objective and national borders as the obstacle.
	I don't think that it is without good reason that Soros is perceived as what David Rockefeller would have described as an internationalist and Alex Jones would describe as a globalist.
	Because these are two terms for the same thing, people who are fundamentally opposed to national sovereignty and the nation-state, including the idea of borders.
	This is Soros' public position on the issue.
	So if we return to Soros' previous statement, he cast me as the shady currency manipulator who uses his money to flood Europe, particularly his native Hungary, with illegal migrants as part of some vague but nefarious plot.
	You have to wonder, who do you think you are kidding, Mr. Soros?
	We know what you do because you have told us what you want.
	Orban's response has been very robust and on the money.
	This is a declaration of war, no doubt.
	The only network which operates in mafia ways which is not transparent in Hungary is the Soros Network.
	This is why we must insist, and I personally insist, on having a parliament decision on making these organisations transparent.
	Soros founded the Central European University in 1991 as an independent American academic institution in Hungary.
	However, the bill introduced by the Hungarian Parliament would force the university's closure as it does not have a physical campus in the United States.
	This university is a colonial outpost to push ideological propaganda.
	But naturally, the optics on this look bad, and the move was seen by some as an attempt to limit free speech and the liberal values of the country.
	During his speech, Soros praised the tens of thousands of people who marched in protests across Hungary in April while decrying the deception and corruption of the mafia state that the Orban regime has established.
	That is insurrectionist.
	That is a deliberate undermining of the democratic government of Hungary and their decision to take action against a foreign university that is pumping out propaganda in Hungary that will inevitably create the class of people required to facilitate migrants into Hungary.
	The European Commission also began legal action against the Hungarian government in April and the European Parliament voted to introduce penalties against the Hungarian government for a breach of EU values.
	Which of course this is.
	The European Union is directly opposed to the nation-state.
	In fact, the nation-state is the thing preventing the European Union from gaining more power.
	Orban said, here there are large predators swimming in the water, and this is the transnational empire of George Soros.
	Adding that Soros-funded organizations are working to bring hundreds of thousands of migrants to Europe.
	In 2015, Orban described Soros as the strongest example of those who support anything that weakens nation-states.
	They support everything that changes the traditional European lifestyle.
	These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human smuggling network.
	The Hungarian Parliament is expected to pass the controversial bill later this month, despite widespread condemnation from activists and politicians and a resolution passed in the European Parliament which condemned the serious deterioration of the rule of law and human rights in Hungary.
	In my opinion, this is an incredibly disingenuous statement that is designed to deliberately misrepresent the problem.
	The problem is not that American students are going to university in Hungary, and the problem isn't even really that there is an independent American university in Hungary.
	The problem of the Central European University is very similar to the problem of Evergreen College.
	It is not that everything that is taught at this university is wrong or false or dangerous.
	The problem is that embedded within it are a selection of courses that are deliberately subversive to the concept of a nation-state, the concept of a homogeneous natural culture in that nation-state, and very much encouraging people to be globally focused and encouraging them to be supportive of the mass migration of people.
	As with Evergreen, these universities are producing a class of people who find no legitimacy in the concept of the nation-state and will actively work against it and in the interests of people like George Soros.
	My problem with this is that I believe that this is actively working against the common interests of the people within the nation-state, the people who are the poorest and least powerful and least able to cope with the increasing globalization of the world.
	It does not do them any favours to erode their nation's sovereignty and create a class of bourgeois, anti-capitalist, anti-nationalists who despise them at every turn for every reason you can imagine.
	If it wasn't bad enough that the people coming out of these universities have a fundamental disrespect for the system in which they have been born, raised and educated, it is the contempt of the people who are not in favour of the destruction of their own nation-state that is, in my opinion, one of the worst things.
	These people cannot be trusted to do good for the people living in these countries, and why would they?
	They think that the people holding back progress are bigoted Luddites, despite the fact that we know that the refugee crisis has been a disaster both financially and socially, and there is no sign that Europe's political class is actually going to do anything to help them.
	Here are some examples of courses you can take at European Central University.
	Communism and gender, historical and global perspectives.
	I don't want to describe this as purely apologetics, but saying that the Soviet Union had achieved impressive economic growth by the 1950s, it promoted women's emancipation, anti-racism and anti-colonialism, and supported progressive movements worldwide seems to be really downplaying the major problems with the Soviet Union.
	Saying that many millions of women and men gave their lives in the struggles to establish or defend socialist or communist states because these states provided their male and female citizens with legal, social and economic rights and security that many people are lacking nowadays seems to be a deliberate attempt at historical revisionism to me.
	What about gendered memories of the Holocaust?
	Oh, this seems important.
	It's the emerging field created by the intersection of Jewish studies, memory studies, and gender studies.
	Perhaps you would enjoy Islamic Feminism in Historical Perspective, with a Master of Arts in Critical Gender Studies, a Master of Arts in European Women's and Gender History, a Master of Arts in Gender Studies, where you will understand Islamic feminism as a diverse movement that reflects many varied streams of interpretation and understanding of gender values and theory based on the breadth of experiences of Muslim women globally.
	Maybe you'll identify major feminist approaches to Islam, including text-based praxis, transnational ideological mobilization, and theory ranging across Marxist, nationalist and religious fundamentalist areas of study.
	Understand Islamic feminist practices within the context of transnational feminist movements against capitalism and globalization.
	Do you see why the Hungarians are shutting down his university yet?
	Hawabas' course on transnational migration.
	A course that aims to assess the usefulness, limitations and challenges of the transnational migration paradigm in the current historical conjecture.
	For 20 years ago in its initial formulation, the transnational paradigm for the study of migration challenged the researchers in multiple disciplines to rethink their approaches to immigration, ethnicity, nationalism, gender, class status, radicalization, religion, globalization and family studies.
	Since that time, there has been a rapid growth of multi-disciplinary scholarships, what has sometimes been called transnational studies, and various agencies, including the World Bank and several non-governmental organizations around the globe, began to celebrate transnational migrants as heroes of development.
	Victor Orban's characterization of George Soros is completely accurate.
	He knows what Soros believes, and we know too because Soros has told us.
	And Soros has been funding universities that provide courses like this that are completely within his modus operandi of trying to achieve his borderless world.
	I think this is dangerous for the regular people who live within these nation-states and who have to live with the result of these kinds of mass migrations.
	And I think that this should be resisted wherever it can be.
	And Victor Orban shutting down this university is the first step.

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