Autopsies on the Evergreen College race affair

Evergreen graduate Benjamin Boyce’s insider documentary: “The Compete Evergreen Story.”

Shaun Cammack at Heterodox Academy: “When race is understood as both the foundation of the self and the determinant of cognitive authority, it follows that there is simply no such thing as a dyadic interaction. Interaction between people of different races is understood as inherently intercollective. What might appear to the methodological individualist as a black person talking to a white person is actually black people (as a collective) talking with white people (as a collective). As I have written elsewhere, “There is no I, only we. And there is no you—only y’all.”

My thinkspot discussion with Boyce on the Evergreen affair’s connections to postmodernism, identity politics, and the Bootleggers and Baptists dynamic: