[Marxism] Fw: The Need For A New U.S. Foreign Policy Toward North Korea

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin  No. 1431  June 13, 2017


The Need For A New U.S. Foreign Policy Toward North 
Korea
Marty Hart-Landsberg

USA-North Korean relations remain very tense, although the threat of a new 
Korean War has thankfully receded. Still the U.S. government remains determined 
to tighten economic sanctions on North Korea and continues to plan for a 
military strike aimed at destroying the country's nuclear infrastructure. And 
the North for its part has made it clear that it would respond to any attack 
with its own strikes against U.S. bases in the region and even the U.S. itself.

This is not good, but it is important to realize that what is happening is not 
new. The U.S. began conducting war games with South Korean forces in 1976 and 
it was not long before those included simulated nuclear attacks against the 
North, and that was before North Korea had nuclear weapons. In 1994, President 
Bill Clinton was close to launching a military attack on North Korea with the 
aim of destroying its nuclear facilities. In 2002, President Bush talked about 
seizing North Korean ships as part of a blockade of the country, which is an 
act of war. In 2013, the U.S. conducted war games which involved planning for 
preemptive attacks on North Korean military targets and “decapitation” of the 
North Korean leadership and even a first strike nuclear attack.

I don't think we are on the verge of a new Korean war, but the cycle of 
belligerency and threat making on both sides is intensifying. And it is always 
possible that a miscalculation could in fact trigger a new war, with 
devastating consequences. The threat of war, perhaps a nuclear war, is nothing 
to play around with. But -- and this is important -- even if a new war is 
averted, the ongoing embargo against North Korea and continual threats of war 
are themselves costly: they promote/legitimatize greater military spending and 
militarization more generally, at the expense of needed social programs, in 
Japan, China, the U.S., and the two Koreas. They also create a situation that 
compromises democratic possibilities in both South and North Korea and worsen 
already difficult economic conditions in North Korea.

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Re: [Marxism] Rothschild’s “Slaughter Ships” | Dissident Voice

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Since anti-semitic conspiracy theories have no factual basis, it is easy to 
adapt and change them to suit circumstances. 
I once found a book in a thrift shop that presented the German government as 
the instrument of a Jewish conspiracy to attack Britain.

As for the Rothschilds, when I checked they’re no longer among the wealthiest 
hundred families in the world.  If memory serves, they were not in the top two 
hundred.

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[Marxism] Fwd: Friend Says Trump Is Considering Firing Special Counsel - The New York Times

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Re: [Marxism] How a Campus Fight Drove 2 Left-Leaning Professors to Fox News

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"When student(s) yell at them, "I don't care what you say.", I'd say that's
a legitimate reason to get upset.  Perhaps they professors should have
called Bernie Sanders to mediate the dispute? "

That is a complete crock of shit. The professor had been speaking his mind
to the entire campus' faculty and much of the student body for weeks.
Everyone knew and understood his point of view: that what was basically a
mild affirmative action program and, separately, a completely voluntary day
of off-campus panels for white students interested in learning about race
issues, were basically acts of racist discrimination against white people.
Weinstein repeatedly (and falsely) characterized the voluntary day as some
kind of show of force and a call for discrimination against whites.

The fact that there are angry students in every mob does not change that
this guy is a tool. Even though he was clearly wrong about the nature of
these campus events and student plans, he continued insisting on his
position to the school's faculty body and through Twitter, and then took to
FOX News to repeat what were total lies about "reverse" discrimination.

I should add that this article, which near uncritically repeats Weinstein's
version of events and portrays him as some sort of victim of a black/brown
mob, ignored the underlying issue that the students on the campus had been
raising, namely the fact that the administration had been closely
collaborating with a local, heavy-handed police department that was engaged
in discriminatory policing for decades; see this article from 1992:
https://www.facebook.com/notes/ben-schroeter/evergreen-security-russeling-up-a-savage-webb-of-deceit/10207239022027890/

In the lead up to these events, two black students had been taken from
their dorms by police late in the night after what was little more than an
argument between themselves and another student over diversity issues on
Facebook; they were held, only be to told in kafkaesque fashion that they
had been free to go the entire time. Likewise, after a group of angry
students yelled at Weinstein for being a liar outside his classroom, a
police officer showed up and began manhandling students; the police
department even issued a statement saying Weinstein wouldn't be "safe" on
campus -- but neither Weinstein nor his students were ever physically
harmed or even threatened with physical harm, and Weinstein repeatedly
showed up during that time giving statements and speeches to angry
students. There was, simply put, no evidence whatsoever that any of this
was any more than an angry confrontation between students and a professor
who could not let go of the fact that his claims were bogus.

In short, despite years of discriminatory police violence on the Evergreen
Campus and a close police-administration collaboration, every effort to
make even the most minimal expressions of empathy with black/brown students
on campus was met with shrill and bogus accusations of "reverse
discrimination," from an attempt to incorporate diversity matters into
hiring, to a voluntary day of off-campus educational panels for white
students, to the students' anger over the way these events were handled
generally. So the idea that Weinstein was simply at the end of his rope is
grade A bullshit. Whether he holds nominally liberal or even
leftist/socialist views is irrelevant.

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Re: [Marxism] How a Campus Fight Drove 2 Left-Leaning Professors to Fox News

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" I don't see why the professors were so upset in the first place."  In
other words, you don't have any answers to what course of action they
should have taken.

When student(s) yell at them, "I don't care what you say.", I'd say that's
a legitimate reason to get upset.  Perhaps they professors should have
called Bernie Sanders to mediate the dispute?

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> Sheldon Ranz, would you go on Tucker Carlson's show under any
> circumstance? If you ever did, I'd call you a jackass too. Like Olaf says
> in the ee cumming poem, there is some shit i will not eat. Of course, Olaf
> was speaking to some serious business, vicious persecution by those who
> would love Carlson today, not a tenured professor having to face hostile
> students. Frankly, from what I have read, I don't see why the professors
> were so upset in the first place. And now it seems that the fascists out
> there are threatening to beat and kill all those they hate, which includes,
> no doubt, all the black, gay, transgender, and radical students and faculty
> on campus. Given what has been happening, in Portland and around the
> country, there is good reason to take such threats seriously.
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Re: [Marxism] How a Campus Fight Drove 2 Left-Leaning Professors to Fox News

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Sheldon Ranz, would you go on Tucker Carlson's show under any circumstance? If 
you ever did, I'd call you a jackass too. Like Olaf says in the ee cumming 
poem, there is some shit i will not eat. Of course, Olaf was speaking to some 
serious business, vicious persecution by those who would love Carlson today, 
not a tenured professor having to face hostile students. Frankly, from what I 
have read, I don't see why the professors were so upset in the first place. And 
now it seems that the fascists out there are threatening to beat and kill all 
those they hate, which includes, no doubt, all the black, gay, transgender, and 
radical students and faculty on campus. Given what has been happening, in 
Portland and around the country, there is good reason to take such threats 
seriously.
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Re: [Marxism] How a Campus Fight Drove 2 Left-Leaning Professors to Fox News

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So, what should those Evergreen State professors have done instead?
Encourage more audiences to be hostile so they can get experience points?

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> These two profs at Evergreen State marked themselves as real jackasses by
> appearing on that consummate pig Tucker Carlson's Fox program. And then
> they say that they don't view Fox the way they used to. A couple more
> liberals dying to move to the right. Well, now they are there, right where
> they belong. These profs need some more experience dealing with hostile
> audiences. Instead, they took their case to Tucker Carlson. Some real
> courage there.
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[Marxism] Fwd: Latin America: A Conservative Restoration? | Solidarity

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By Marc Becker.

https://www.solidarity-us.org/node/4973
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[Marxism] Fwd: Rothschild’s “Slaughter Ships” | Dissident Voice

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Today I got back into Dennis King's authoritative study of LaRouche's 
fascist cult and began reading the chapter on "Elizabeth, Queen of the 
Jews" that puts LaRouche's anti-Semitism into context. Much of it is 
similar to the Nazi attacks on the British, with Queen Elizabeth, the 
Jewish banks in England--especially the Rothschilds, and international 
Jewry being turned into a vast conspiracy against Germany. LaRouche uses 
the same tropes but makes the USA the victim rather than Germany. In 
King's references to Rothschild, it dawned on me that on the furthest 
reaches of the Assadist left that merges into the Syrian dictator's 
outright fascist backers such as David Duke, the Rothschilds keep coming 
up as a kind of Jew-baiting trope. A brief search on the net revealed 
that DissidentVoice, a one-time voice of the left, has become part of 
this march toward the ultraright. Just look at this installment in an 
11-part series to see how fucked up it has become:


http://dissidentvoice.org/2016/01/rothschilds-slaughter-ships/

Shareholder finance of ORS Services is managed by the private equity 
firm Equistone Partners Europe, an affiliate of the Rothschild-owned 
Barclays Bank, which is considered to be the most influential financial 
institutions in the world. German economist Wolfang Freisleben has 
described Barclays Bank as “Rothschilds slaughtership”. Barclays is the 
most important shareholder in both NM Rothschild bank and Lazard 
Brothers. Former director of Barclays Marcus Agius is married to a 
daughter of Edmond de Rothschild. Agius was also director of the British 
Broadcasting Corporation’s executive board and served in the Steering 
Committee of the secretive Bilderberg Group.


As in the case of the Arab Spring, some anarchists are once again 
unwitting tools and fools of imperialist subversion. The Berliner 
anarchist collective “Peng”! is helping to smuggle immigrants into 
Europe illegally. This is part of the groups ‘international solidarity’. 
The organisation is funded by the ultra-right wing Ayn Rand Institute, 
whose director is Israeli and Zionist ideologue Yaron Brook.


Ayn Rand was a Jewish philosopher who promoted the concept of 
objectivism; the idea that self-interest is the goal in every 
individual’s life and that laissez-faire capitalism is the only system 
compatible with the individual’s super-egotism.


http://dissidentvoice.org/2016/01/rothschilds-slaughter-ships/
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[Marxism] How a Campus Fight Drove 2 Left-Leaning Professors to Fox News

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These two profs at Evergreen State marked themselves as real jackasses by 
appearing on that consummate pig Tucker Carlson's Fox program. And then they 
say that they don't view Fox the way they used to. A couple more liberals dying 
to move to the right. Well, now they are there, right where they belong. These 
profs need some more experience dealing with hostile audiences. Instead, they 
took their case to Tucker Carlson. Some real courage there.
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[Marxism] Fwd: Absolute: On the British General Election | Salvage

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[Marxism] Fwd: An uncommon life in Common Business-Oriented Language (COBOL) | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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In many ways, the best thing about the NY Times is the obituary since it 
amounts to a small-scale biography. If given a choice between a 
documentary and a narrative film, I generally lean toward the 
documentary because the real lives of people are far more interesting 
than what a screenwriter can think up. The same thing is true when it 
comes to a biography versus a novel. Why would I want to read something 
written by Jonathan Franzen when my time could be better spent on a 
biography of Ho Chi Minh or John Brown, just two that are sitting on my 
bookshelf right now?


On June 4th, the obituary for Jean Sammet appeared. Although I am pretty 
familiar with the lives of people who took part in the information 
revolution, I had never heard of her before. She was one of the six 
people who got together in 1959 to write the Common Business-Oriented 
Language, more familiarly known as COBOL. This was a language I used 
from 1970 until 1995 or so when I switched over to a Unix platform at 
Columbia University developing client-server systems in perl and java.


full: 
https://louisproyect.org/2017/06/12/an-uncommon-life-in-common-business-oriented-language-cobol/

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[Marxism] Mexico leftist party says will not join other parties in presidential run | Reuters

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http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN192174


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[Marxism] Former Sacramento Goodwill employee files whistleblower complaint | The Sacramento Bee

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http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article155449679.html


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[Marxism] Fwd: [New post] Industry calls EPA Proposal to Ban Bathtub Stripper a “Blatant and raw power grab”

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> From: "Confined Space" 
> Date: June 12, 2017 at 10:38:02 AM EDT
> To: "Richard Sprout" 
> Subject: [New post] Industry calls EPA Proposal to Ban Bathtub
Stripper a “Blatant and raw power grab”
> 
> 
> New post on Confined Space
> 
> 
> Industry calls EPA Proposal to Ban Bathtub Stripper a “Blatant and raw
power grab”
> by Jordan
> 
> Center for Public Inegrity
> 
> Seventeen workers dying between 2000 and 2015 isn't enough to convince
the methylene chloride industry that more is needed than just labels on
a can to prevent the needless deaths of worker stripping bathtubs.
> 
> The Environmental Protection Agency's proposed ban of methylene
chloride as a paint stripper is a “blatant and raw power grab” of
authority that Congress gave the Consumer Product Safety Commission,
according to an attorney representing the Halogenated Solvents Industry
Alliance, Inc.(HSIA) , according to a story in Bloomberg BNA.   The
Alliance includes companies that make products containing methylene
chloride which has been blamed for numerous deaths of bathtub
refinishers.
> 
> Confined Space reported last week about the death of 21 year old Kevin
Hartley who died April 28 while using a stripper containing methylene
chloride while stripping a bathtub. The Environmental Protection Agency
has proposed to ban the chemical's use as a paint stripper.
> 
> The industry is using the same old arguments that they use to object
to every health and safety regulation issued by EPA or OSHA: the science
isn't good. (The solvents industry also denies that the chemical causes
cancer,) "devastating" impacts to small businesses, astronomically
higher costs (and lower benefits) than EPA estimated, and "" viable and
effective regulatory alternatives, including enhanced labeling and
consumer education and training requirements."
> 
> A letter from W.M. Barr & Company, Inc. notes that small business
manufacturers " implored the agency not to move forward with a proposed
rule that would require formulators to discontinue products that have
been in use for generations in favor of alternative formulations that
are less safe, or less effective and more expensive than the
high-quality products we offer today."
> 
> W. Caffey Norman, a partner in the Washington office of Squire Patton
Boggs, which represents HSIA, argues that the EPA regulation would
violate Section 9 of the Toxic Substances Control Act which "bars the
EPA from regulating a chemical already sufficiently managed by another
agency."
> 
> Industry argues that not only does OSHA regulate Methylene Chloride,
but "the Consumer Product Safety Commission voted June 2 to include
stronger language on household products containing methylene chloride,
so consumers would know the products can be deadly and shouldn’t be used
in small, unventilated spaces."  OSHA's regulation sets a low limit of
exposure, mainly because the chemical is known to cause cancer.
> 
> HSIA and the chemical industry argue that the CPSC labels should
replace the EPA's regulation. But CPSC disagrees, according to BNA.  A
briefing package prepared by the commission staff stated that
> 
> “Any action taken by the CPSC would not replace the EPA’s rulemaking
and instead, would be an interim measure until the EPA may issue a
regulation,” the staff paper said.
> 
> TSCA gives the EPA the ability to address both occupational and
consumer uses of methylene chloride, CPSC staff said. Thus, the EPA may
address risks associated with the solvent and products containing it “in
a more cohesive and coordinated manner,” it said.
> 
> The Environmental Defense Fund agrees that EPA needs to take strong
and swift action:
> 
> Products containing these chemicals are available at hardware and
other retail stores across the country, and unless EPA acts promptly to
finalize a ban, there will surely be more avoidable deaths and other
health impacts due to use oEDF’s recent comments to EPA, we strongly urged it 
to finalize these
bans as soon as possible to protect public health.  EPA should not wait
for another reason to take action.
> 
>  This regulation will be one of the first tests of the Trump
administration.  Will Trump's EPA head Scott Pruitt sentence more young
people to preventable death?
> 
> Jordan | June 12, 2017 at 10:37 am | Categories: Chemical Standards |
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[Marxism] A life as hard-boiled as his fiction | Ken Fuller | The Morning Star

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In this extract from his new biography on the great crime fiction writer 
Dashiell Hammett, KEN FULLER charts a life of artistic highs and personal lows: 
https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-8f4d-A-life-as-hard-boiled-as-his-fiction





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[Marxism] Reviving a Lost Language of Canada Through Film

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NY Times, June 12 2017
Reviving a Lost Language of Canada Through Film
By CATHERINE PORTER

HIELLEN, British Columbia — Speaking Haida for the first time in more 
than 60 years looked painful. Sphenia Jones’s cheeks glistened with 
sweat, and her eyes clenched shut. She tried again to produce the 
forgotten raspy echo of the Haida k’, and again she failed. Then she 
smiled broadly.


“It feels so good,” Ms. Jones, 73, said. “Mainly because I can say it 
out loud without being afraid.”


Like 150,000 indigenous children across Canada, Ms. Jones was sent far 
from home to a residential school to be forcibly assimilated into 
Western culture. There, any trappings of her native culture were 
strictly forbidden. When a teacher caught Ms. Jones learning another 
indigenous language from two schoolmates, Ms. Jones said, the teacher 
yanked out three fingernails.


It worked: Ms. Jones spoke nothing but English, until recently, when she 
began learning her lines in the country’s first Haida-language feature 
film, “Edge of the Knife.”


Restoring the country’s 60 or so indigenous languages, many on the verge 
of extinction, is at the center of that reconciliation.


The loss of one language, said Wade Davis, a University of British 
Columbia anthropology professor, is akin to clear-cutting an “old-growth 
forest of the mind.” The world’s complex web of myths, beliefs and ideas 
— which Mr. Davis calls the “ethnosphere” — is torn, just as the loss of 
a species weakens the biosphere, he said.


A Haida glossary dedicates three pages to words and expressions for rain.

“English cannot begin to describe the landscape of Haida Gwaii,” the 
Haida homeland, Mr. Davis said. “There are 10,000 shades of nuance and 
interpretation. That really is what language is.”


Fewer than 20 fluent speakers of Haida are left in the world, according 
to local counts. For the Haida themselves, the destruction of their 
language is profoundly tied to a loss of identity.


“The secrets of who we are are wrapped up in our language,” said Gwaai 
Edenshaw, a co-director of the film, who like most of the cast and crew 
grew up learning some Haida in school but spoke English at home.


“It’s how we think,” he continued. “How we label our world around us. 
It’s also a resistance to what was imposed on us.”


Mr. Edenshaw was a co-writer of the script for the 1.8 million Canadian 
dollar ($1.3 million) film, which is set in Haida Gwaii — an archipelago 
of forested islands off the west coast of Canada — during the 1800s. It 
tells an iconic Haida story of the “wildman,” a man who is lost and 
becomes feral living in the forest. In this version, the wildman loses 
his mind after the death of a child, and is forcibly returned to the 
fold of his community in a healing ceremony.


The script was translated into two remaining, distinct dialects of the 
language: Xaad Kil and Xaayda Kil. None of the stars are conversant in 
either dialect. The crew held a two-week language boot camp in April so 
cast members, who also have little or no acting experience, could learn 
to pronounce their lines before filming started in May.


“I’m not used to using my mouth like that,” said William Russ, 37, who 
sat on the floor of a long house.


At his feet was a black speaker, which replayed the recording of a Haida 
elder saying a line that in English seemed to capture his predicament: 
“You are so careless, Aditsii. Everything is crumbling around you.”


In Haida, it was twice as long, and included a series of G’s, meant to 
echo from the back of the throat.


“It’s like we learned from the ravens and birds — all those clicking 
sounds,” Mr. Russ said.


That the Haida language is so threatened might surprise Canadians, as 
the Haida are nationally known for their political and cultural 
strength. They formed their own local government in 1974, and in 2002 
filed a land claim for the entire archipelago in a Canadian court. (A 
trial date has still not been set.)


They successfully blocked logging companies and rekindled their 
traditional art forms, hoisting new totem poles across one northern island.


But that political and cultural resurgence has not spread to the Haida 
language, despite many grass-roots efforts.


“The language was dying before me,” said Diane Brown, 69, the 
archipelago’s best-known language advocate, who started to teach Haida 
in schools in the 1970s. “ The elders would say: ‘What will we call 
ourselves, if we don’t speak Haida? Who is going to talk to the ancestors?’”


In 1998, Ms. Brown helped found the Skidegate Haida Immersion Program to 
teach the southern dialect, but the program’s focus quickly shifted to 

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Chronicle of Higher Education, June 12 2017
How a Campus Fight Drove 2 Left-Leaning Professors to Fox News
By Chris Quintana

The two professors were horrified, both at what they had seen at their 
college in the past year and at what they planned to do about it.
For months, Heather Heying and her husband, Bret Weinstein, had tried to 
convince their colleagues at Evergreen State College that the Washington 
campus was teetering on the brink of self-ruin. The administration 
seemed ready to adopt what they saw as an "authoritarian" policy aimed 
at increasing faculty diversity. Meanwhile, the couple thought, the 
president was indulging student protesters who seemed increasingly out 
of control.


Ms. Heying and Mr. Weinstein, both biology professors who consider 
themselves politically progressive, had tried to sound the alarm bells. 
Mr. Weinstein had made his case in emails to faculty members and 
administrators that were later printed by the student newspaper. The 
couple had even made a trip to the governor’s office to warn two staff 
members that the public college was risking a "tragedy." Nothing had worked.


Now the couple weighed a new option. A producer for Tucker Carlson 
Tonight, a prime-time show on Fox News, had asked if Mr. Weinstein 
wanted to make his case to the conservative commentator and his millions 
of viewers.


It was a nauseating thought, says Ms. Heying. Theirs was an NPR family. 
Back in college, Mr. Weinstein had stood up to fraternities at the 
University of Pennsylvania over sexist and racist behavior at their 
parties. In an ideal world, says Ms. Heying, they would have talked to 
The New York Times or The Washington Post. But that’s not who had come 
calling.


"He was horrified, I was horrified," Ms. Heying told The Chronicle. 
"Tucker Carlson is someone he mocks in his classes."


But Mr. Weinstein had few allies on the campus. Some people were calling 
him racist for raising what he thought were reasonable concerns about 
how Evergreen State was dealing with issues of race and diversity. With 
their own colleagues seeming unreceptive, Mr. Weinstein and Ms. Heying 
were surprised to find themselves seriously considering Mr. Carlson’s offer.


A ‘Strategic Equity Plan’

For Mr. Weinstein and Ms. Heying, the road to Fox News began last year, 
when Evergreen State, a small, public liberal-arts college in Olympia, 
Wash., moved to reorganize its administration as part of a "paradigm 
shift" in dealing with racial concerns.


The "strategic equity plan" worried the two professors, specifically a 
portion that called for "an equity justification/explanation for each 
potential hire/position." Mr. Weinstein and Ms. Heying took that 
language to mean that the college would limit its hiring to scholars 
whose research touched on issues of race and inclusion.


“How possibly could you hire an artist or chemist or writing faculty if 
the work didn't engage 'equity'?” "How possibly could you hire an artist 
or chemist or writing faculty if the work didn’t engage ‘equity’?" Ms. 
Heying asked The Chronicle. "It will be the end of the liberal-arts 
college."
The authors of the plan referred to it not as a hiring mandate but as "a 
paradigm shift, grounded in the college’s longstanding diversity 
efforts," that would help it better accommodate underserved students. 
And the chair of the Board of Trustees, Gretchen Sorensen, described the 
equity council that drafted the plan as part of the college’s commitment 
"to leveling the playing field in higher education for communities of 
color."


Mr. Weinstein expressed reservations about the plan in emails and at 
faculty meetings, but felt that his colleagues were eager to dismiss his 
views as racist instead of arguing with him in good faith. (Sandra 
Kaiser, a spokeswoman for the college, said this week that Evergreen 
State still had not made a final decision about the plan.)


By this spring, Mr. Weinstein and Ms. Heying were not just concerned 
about the equity plan; they also felt an increasing sense of anxiety 
about what they saw as a streak of "authoritarianism" among campus liberals.


In March, Mr. Weinstein objected to what he considered a disturbing 
request from student protesters: that, in a twist on a college tradition 
called the "Day of Absence," white people would voluntarily stay off 
campus for a day. Students criticized Mr. Weinstein’s opposition to the 
request. In May, after an incident in which police officers questioned 
two black students who had been accused of making threats, racial 
tensions on the campus reached a boil.


One day, to Mr. Weinstein’s surprise, a crowd of students interrupted 

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