{"id":66940,"date":"2018-05-25T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66940"},"modified":"2018-05-25T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T17:30:00","slug":"the-high-cost-of-woke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66940","title":{"rendered":"The High Cost Of &#8220;Woke&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evergreen State College &#8211; the ultra-&#8220;progressive&#8221; school in Washington State that&#8217;s spent the past couple years in an orgy of virtue-signaling and PC-witchhunting &#8211; has seen its enrollment projections drop by 20% this year &#8211; and its budget is accordingly in freefall:&#8217;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Both announcements come nearly a year after the college endured persistent riots following former professor Bret Weinstein\u2019s decision to question the \u201cday of absence,\u201d an initiative that asked white students to leave campus for a day of off-campus diversity workshops, while people of color participated in on-campus workshops.<\/p>\n<p>After besieging Weinstein in his classroom, student protesters proceeded to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/?ID=9252\">hold school President George Bridges and several other administrators hostage<\/a>\u00a0in the president&#8217;s office, temporarily refusing even to let Bridges use the bathroom unless he agreed to adopt their demands for additional diversity-related initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>Carmichael warned employees that \u201cit is impossible\u201d to make a budget cut of such magnitude without \u201caffecting some programs and services,\u201d noting that the college \u201ccan\u2019t afford\u201d things like \u201ctheatrical productions in the Experimental Theater.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Evergreen has\u00a0<em>been\u00a0<\/em>&#8220;experimental theater&#8221; for some time now.<\/p>\n<p>But back on point &#8211; it almost seems like people looking for an education these days would prefer\u00a0<em>less\u00a0<\/em>pompous, often threatening and sometimes violent virtue-signaling and more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;education?<\/p>\n<p>It hardly seems possible, does it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evergreen State College &#8211; the ultra-&#8220;progressive&#8221; school in Washington State that&#8217;s spent the past couple years in an orgy of virtue-signaling and PC-witchhunting &#8211; has seen its enrollment projections drop by 20% this year &#8211; and its budget is accordingly in freefall:&#8217; Both announcements come nearly a year after the college endured persistent riots following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,309,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-indoctrinate-u","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66941,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66940\/revisions\/66941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}