Benjamin Boyce: "The Rise of Social Justice is a Wake-Up Call"

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.5 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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0:00.0	Hello and
0:05.0	Francis Foster.
0:08.0	I'm Constantine Kissen.
0:10.0	And this is the show for you
0:12.0	if you want honest conversations with fascinating people.
0:16.0	Our brilliant guest today is a content creator and the graduate of the Evergreen State College.
0:22.0	Benjamin Boyce,
0:23.2	welcome to Trigonometry.
0:24.9	Hey guys, thanks for having me on.
0:26.6	It's great to have you on.
0:27.6	You've got the background.
0:28.5	You're right there in the field of beautiful flowers.
0:31.8	It's fantastic to have you on. Anyone who doesn't know who you are, just tell everybody, a little bit about how are you where you are, what has been your journey through life. How do you find yourself having this weird zoom chat with us? Yeah, well, the basic story is that I was going through life and I had a Dante moment and instead of going to hell I went to this small college in the woods called
0:55.9	the Evergreen State College and I went there to study literature and narrative specifically
1:01.2	how it operates, how you pull it apart and put it
1:03.5	together and what it does for and two people and about halfway through my time at
1:09.2	the Evergreen State College a new president came on and he empowered some faculty and they created the
1:17.5	college's purpose around social justice but specifically about racial justice.
1:24.3	And they began to implement ideas that I would ascribe to,
1:29.6	I guess Robin De Angelo is the most popular proponent of these ideas called anti racism and whenever I speak
1:36.2	about anti racism I'm putting that in quotes and we can get into that.
1:40.3	But that was in 2015. By the spring of 2017, the college kind of collapsed in an absurdist version of a race war.
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