Part One: The Evergreen Equity Council
What it is
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 Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters cite the series as a documentary on the Evergreen controversy and as evidence in arguments about ideology and campus culture.
- 2 people recommended it
- 2 different months
- 0 strong recommendations
- first 2019, last 2025
What HN commenters said
“the great, 3-part, documentary[3] by Mike Nayna”
Three-part documentary on Evergreen State College controversy
raarts, 2019-04 · Recommendation · in “Diversity and the Death of Free Speech”
“This should make anyone's skin crawl with the way this college's faculty and staff were treated”
Documentary on Evergreen State College faculty treatment in 2017
docmars, 2025-01 · Recommendation · in “The Origins of Wokeness”
Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.
Topics: evergreen state college, bret weinstein, campus politics, free speech, documentary
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