Embattled Evergreen State College Professor Bret Weinstein claims that his lawsuit against the college was a “last resort” effort after several failed attempts to call the administration’s attention to their wrongdoing.
In an interview with a local NBC affiliate, Professor Bret Weinstein explained the motivations behind his several million-dollar legal claim against Evergreen State College. The lawsuit focuses on Evergreen administrator’s failure in ensuring necessary workplace boundaries on campus. Documents obtained from the standard Tort claim argue that the school “failed to set and enforce necessary boundaries in the workplace on campus, selectively has chosen not to enforce its student Code of Conduct, and sent the unmistakable message that the school will tolerate (and even endorse) egregious violations (and even crimes) purportedly to advance racial social goals, diminishing the collegiate experience for all, and fostering a racially hostile work and retaliatory environment for faculty and staff.”
“Moving in the direction of legal action was a last resort…It has only happened because the college has refused to wake up in the face of every previous attempt we have made to call their attention to what was wrong,” Weinstein said.
“She said are you on campus? I said no. She said, please don’t come to campus. And I said what’s going on? She said protesters are searching car-to-car looking for an individual and we believe it’s you,” he revealed, saying, “That was obviously a very alarming call to receive.”
“It’s been surreal,” he added, “This has turned our lives absolutely upside down.”
“It became very clearly criminal at the point that they were barricading administrators and the president’s office and controlling their movements and stalking people on the campus openly,” he told NBC local affiliate KING 5.
Despite the chaos, Weinstein says that he would love to return to his classroom at Evergreen in the fall. “We would love to return,” he said. “We can not return if the college is not made safe. And it has to be made safe for people to express points of view that are at odds with the conventional wisdom at the moment.”
Tom Ciccotta is a libertarian who writes about economics and higher education for Breitbart News. You can follow him on Twitter @tciccotta or email him at tciccotta@breitbart.com
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