A reader from Evergreen State "College" just posted this comment in one of my entries from last March about Evergreen alumna Rachel Corrie. The comment is not interesting for what it says, only in what it reveals about Evergreen:
I can't believe that people of the world talk shit about what happened on March 16th like there was anything but a murder. Thank you John and the rest of you who see the light that was shining, and the light that went out on that day. Those of you who think that there was a misstep that day were wrong. The death there was a new breath in the actual peace movement. Just because militants feel comfortable killing kids doesn't make it right. March 16th wow, comin at you Monsanto. Step aside. Breath. Retire. Stop. That's what there was murder for, ceaseless greed and the lenths allowable. Not crazyness on the part of a girl. She was standing in the way of a bulldozer trying to crush the home of a pediatrician for God's sake.[emphasis added]. Signed, "rachel", "fuckoff@screwyou.net", IP address 192.211.25.9
Or was that the sake of the people of Palistine... That's right Palistine, the internationally recognised nation to the North of Egypt. Isriel is on foerign land killing people. That is a crime.
Evergreen State "College", a taxpayer-funded institution that teaches its students how to shill for Jew-killers before it teaches them how to spell.
Stefan,
What makes you so sure that "rachel" isn't faculty rather than student?
Regardless, "rachel" has a point: a crime was committed -- but by the smug, self-satisfied activists at Evergreen who sent an unbalanced (literally and figuratively) Corrie to her death. They are criminally negligent and should be held to some sort of account.
If Corrie's parents wanted accountability they'd be suing Evergreen instead of going on magical mystery tours to Ramallah.
My sympathy quotient for the fatally misguided Corrie is exactly zero.
Posted by: wm. tyroler on January 26, 2004 09:19 PMNever mind spelling, what about basic grammar? Are there any literacy tests required to get accepted at this college?
Posted by: marek on January 27, 2004 06:02 AMMarek:
Can you say, "Fuck the Jews"? Then you've passed their literacy test. (Alternative tests: "Down with Israel" "Sharon is a war criminal" "I love Yasser Arafat")
Posted by: Dean on January 27, 2004 06:58 AMSpelling? Grammar? Hell, what about basic coherency? There isn't any. You can walk down a Manhattan street and hear deranged street people muttering (or screaming) exactly this sort of stuff.
Ultimately, on all levels, the sham of bad schools, with "students" that learn nothing, and "faculty" that teach nothing, are a self-limiting phenomenon. Too bad the end can't come nearly soon enough...
Posted by: M. Murcek on January 27, 2004 08:31 AMSounds like the cafeteria let the soy milk ferment a little too long.
What a moron.
I suspect Rachel Corrie was as ill-educated. It takes sheer stupidity to face down Israelis on a mission. If memory serves me, Corrie bowed down obstructing her view from the bulldozer driver. Or, maybe she saw CAT written on the side and it confused her.
It sounds like "rachel" of the email has the right namesake.
St. Rachael of the Doziers aka Rachael Corrie won this years Idiotarian of the Year at Little Green Footballs. I believe she is also on the short list to win this years Darwin Award. The Darwin Award is given to the person who ends up getting killed and ending their gene line through an act of stupidity.
Posted by: Reid on January 27, 2004 02:05 PMThanks for making me realize that this sort of writing is, in fact, incoherent. I had attributed my basic lack of understanding to old age or no longer being hip. But now it's clear to me that we have among us some complete idiots.
Posted by: ipsofacto on January 27, 2004 07:59 PMEvergreen College has a new course: Survival 101. The first lesson is: Don't play hide and seek with bulldozers.
Posted by: Jed on January 28, 2004 07:03 AMThe Evergreen State College would never condescend to allow any subject as practical as a bulldozer into its course material.
Well, maybe it would, for its long-range projections on how its intellectual exquisites would govern the country after the long-awaited Revolution. Then the Caterpillar, creation of an evil Corporation, would properly be used (with a good Union member at the helm, of course) to excavate large burial trenches for corporate officers, writers of incorrect journalism and drivers of SUVs.
Posted by: Insufficiently Sensitive on January 28, 2004 09:10 AMHey, by Evergreen standards that was cogent writing. Since they don't have marks or theses, she doesn't get much practice. Did you know that Evergreen was brought to you by a Republican? Yep, Dan Evans, the beard-growing liberal RINO of the 70s, well to the left of his Democrat rival Dixy Lee Ray, was instrumental in the creation of this monstrosity.
Posted by: CJ on February 3, 2004 06:42 PMSo,
Was that first comment actually written by an Evergreen student? Has anyone confirmed this? Anyone?
The comment was posted from IP address 192.211.25.9 , which is on the Evergreen campus. Was the writer actually a student? Can't say. As one of the other commenters pointed out, it could also have been posted by a faculty member.
Posted by: Stefan Sharkansky on February 10, 2004 11:04 PMThe WSJ has an op-ed on Corrie that claims :
"Thank you, Rachel Corrie, of Evergreen State University, where the profs wear khakis and kaffiyehs at graduation ceremonies, for showing us what peace really means."
(Emphasis added)
This can't possibly be true. Is there a photo anywhere?
Posted by: grofaz on March 16, 2004 04:29 AMSnooped around google a bit and I still can't find a photo. But judging from the College's websites, this outfit is a lily-white fool's paradise. Incredible.
Posted by: grofaz on March 16, 2004 05:25 AMI POSTED A COMMENT REGARDING JUST THIS...PERUSE THE FACULTY BIOS AT ESC YOU SEE MOST HAVE NOTHING MORE THAN A BA FROM SOME THIRD RATE COLLEGE AND PUBLISH IN FOURTH RATE JOURNALS IF ANY
Posted by: ted on March 20, 2004 02:43 PM