THE VIDEO SHELF · evergreen college controversy
Part One: The Evergreen Equity Council
The first of three short films by Mike Nayna about Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying's experience at Evergreen State College, focusing on the Equity Council and the controversy around it.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters cite the series as a documentary on the Evergreen controversy and as evidence in arguments about ideology and campus culture.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Michael Nayna
- Topic
- evergreen college controversy
- Format
- documentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I've been following the free speech issue on universities for almost a year now, and I think the 2008 may be on the mark, though the first well known incident I can name is the Lawrence Summers controversy in 2005 [1]. The free speech issue …
raarts on Hacker News · 2019-04
In Diversity and the Death of Free SpeechOn YouTube, watch the Evergreen State College 3-part documentary by Bret Weinstein. This is much more common than you think, through your anecdote, unfortunately. Granted, this happened in 2017, so a few years after your time in college, but I would argue "peak wokeness" sits …
docmars on Hacker News · 2025-01
In The Origins of Wokeness
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