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In 2017, the Evergreen State College gained national attention for a series of student protests and demonstrations centered on racial issues and social justice. The discussion regarding these events has been largely critical and mostly kept to the popular press. While we understand the who, when, and where of the Evergreen affair, our understanding of the what is underdeveloped. Student protestors filmed and streamed over eighteen hours of demonstrations, meetings, and confrontations, and due to the relatively recent ubiquity of streaming-capable smartphones, as well as the generation raised in the context of such technology, this offers a unique source of information. Utilizing computer-assisted qualitative coding, this study endeavors to understand the fundamental beliefs and moral considerations that underpinned the Evergreen affair. In the final analysis, I argue that the Evergreen affair was the manifestation of a coherent social system implicated by a thick system of belief, characterized by victimhood morality and ethnocentric ideas, which ultimately resulted in a racially hierarchical social order. |
