My MA thesis on the Evergreen affair is finished and accepted! I'm trying to figure out how to best share it with folks, but for now here's my main takeaway. [1/8]

At the Evergreen State College, a significant contingent of the campus community held a particular "social justice" worldview. This belief system, when stripped of any affirmative content, can be characterized by a few basic elements: [2/8]

1. Victimhood morality (that to be victimized grants moral merit, and the moral demeriting of the victimizer) cc: @CampbellSocProf & @sociologyWV

2. Ethnohistorical determinism (the belief that the history of an ethnicity determines victim/victimizer moral status) [3/8]

3. Ethno-race consciousness (a perception of oneself as fundamentally a racial-ethnic group and the belief that race is the basis of cognitive authority) cc: Anne Wortham

4. Platonic collectives (that the essence of an ethnic group exists metaphysically as an ideal) [4/8]

5. Intercollectivity (that social interaction is always always a diplomatic exchange between ethnic groups). cc: @CampbellSocProf & @sociologyWV [5/8]

In the spring of 2017, reacting to @BretWeinstein, this group had an opportunity to express and manifest the social order implicated by their belief system and they did so, upheld by normative sanctions and other mechanisms of social control. [6/8]

This was fundamentally a social system—a thick, cultural group constructed through subgroups, mediated by shared beliefs and morality. It was a clear hierarchy between POC and whites, who had specific, interdependent roles. [7/8]

If anyone would like to read the paper, reach out and I'll send it to you, otherwise I'm thinking about putting together an explainer podcast series about this research. (and as always, big thanks to @BenjaminABoyce for sharing his archive with me). [8/8]

I've got a lot of requests to for the paper (which is really cool), so I've uploaded it to my website. In the navigation bar, click "Thesis"
https://shauncammack.com