A liberal professor’s epiphany
By Bruce McQuain
The WSJ today carries a piece by Professor Bret Weinstein of Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. He was the professor, whose stand against what he called a “coercive segregation” of whites off campus during what had been traditionally a day when people of color voluntarily stayed away to demonstrate their value to the community.
What’s interesting is the “Day of Absence”, as it is called, had been done a month before without incident. His controversial stand?
“There is a huge difference between a group or coalition deciding to voluntarily absent themselves from a shared space in order to highlight their vital and under-appreciated roles . . . and a group or coalition encouraging another group to go away,” I wrote. “On a college campus, one’s right to speak—or to be—must never be based on skin color.”
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