The professor that refused to participate in a day of segregation penned an editorial Tuesday explaining why he had to hold his class off-campus in May.
Bret Weinstein, a biology professor at Evergreen State College, asserts that students protested him because “he had challenged coercive segregation by race.” He contends that the protests in late May also resulted from the school’s Equity Council, which Weinstein argues favor the “discredited” concept of equality of outcome.
Weinstein reported that the police told him it wasn’t safe for him to teach class on campus, later suggesting that protesters were searching cars for him.
“The button-down empirical and deductive fields, including all the hard sciences, have lived side by side with ‘critical theory,’ postmodernism and its perception-based relatives,” Weinstein explains in his Wall Street Journal op-ed. “Since the creation in 1960s and ’70s of novel, justice-oriented fields, these incompatible worldviews have repelled one another.”
The professor argues that George Bridges, Evergreen’s president, upset this balance through the creation of an Equity Council in 2016.
The Equity Council mandated an “equity justification” for each new addition to Evergreen’s faculty, which Weinstein argues constituted equality of outcome.
“[I could] accept the plan and let the intellectual descendants of Critical Race Theory dictate the bounds of permissible thought to the sciences and the rest of the college, or insist on discussing the plan’s shortcomings and be branded as racists,” Weinstein said. “Most of my colleagues chose the former, and the protesters are in the process of articulating the terms. I dissented and ended up teaching in the park.”
The Daily Caller News Foundation reached out to Weinstein for comment regarding Washington lawmakers’ proposal to strip Evergreen of state funding, but received none in time for publication.
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