By: Leynize Koen
Evergreen State College thought it could get away with something unthinkable: A “Day of Absence” where white students and faculty were asked to stay off campus — because of their skin color.
Yes, you read that right. A taxpayer-funded public college tried to rebrand segregation as “equity.” And the fallout still echoes nationwide…
The Day the Woke Tide Went Too Far
For years, Evergreen held a symbolic tradition where minority groups left campus for a day to spark conversation but in 2017, activists demanded the opposite that white students were expected to remove themselves from campus, while every other racial group was told to stay.
That wasn’t symbolism — it was segregation rebooted, and they knew exactly what they were doing, deliberate racial exclusion.
Biology professor Bret Weinstein voiced what millions of Americans felt. He called the demand a “show of force” and refused to participate in racial separation. Students erupted, buildings were occupied and faculty were hunted down. Campus turned into a live-action TikTok meltdown, Evergreen’s leadership folded like wet cardboard.
Reverse Discrimination? No — Just Discrimination, Period.
Let’s be clear. If any school told Black, Hispanic, Asian, or Native students to stay home for a day, the media would detonate into a Category 5 hurricane. But when the target is white students? The left calls it “anti-racism.”
Newsflash – You cannot combat racism by reinstating segregation, you cannot unite a nation by dividing people by melanin, and you sure shouldn’t bankroll it with taxpayer money.
The Fallout: Lawsuits, Chaos & a College in Freefall
Evergreen quickly became America’s cautionary tale. Students barricaded doors, professors abandoned campus, and the administration apologized — not to the victims of discrimination, but to the mob demanding it.
Eventually the school paid out a $500,000 settlement to Weinstein.
Enrollment collapsed, parents pulled their kids and Evergreen became the poster child of what happens when ideology eats common sense alive.
Why It Still Matters Today
Although Evergreen attempted to obscure the episode with a series of “equity initiatives,” the precedent remained. Once activists are permitted to impose exclusion, they will inevitably attempt it again — and other institutions will imitate the model. This was not an isolated mistake; it was a test case demonstrating the extent to which the activist establishment is prepared to push its agenda.
The Jellyfish Verdict
Evergreen’s “Anti-White Day” was neither courageous nor progressive, and it was certainly not just. It constituted segregation masked as equity.
America should not forget how readily a college abandoned equality and civil rights at the urging of activists.
For if such division is tolerated once, it will inevitably be attempted again — with greater intensity.
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