Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1055 - Bret Weinstein
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1055 - Bret Weinstein' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-12-20. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1055 - Bret Weinstein

boom and we're live how are you i'm doing all right oh a lot of stuff is going
on a lot of
stuff a lot of since your settlement jamie and i were hoping that you would
come in with one of
those paul wall grills with like diamonds on it and maybe some furs yeah up in
a cadillac well
unfortunately it's enough money to make a difference but it's not enough money
to
to no longer have to think about such things so yeah you could temporarily ball
though if you were
irresponsible and you didn't have a family if i didn't have a family you get
crazy for a couple
months yeah now as it happens it gives us uh room to think about how to replace
our incomes we have
about two years at our our current rate of of burning to keep the family yeah
for people just
so this is a standalone podcast so people can kind of what you need to do if
you're really interested in
really interested in this if really interested is google brett weinstein and
you will get the full
story from beginning to end with evergreen state college where i'll just give
you the short version
of it there was a bunch of what you would uh kindly call social active people
social justice warriors
uh people who there's there's a movement going on in this country and it's very
aggressive
and one of the things that they wanted to do is they wanted to have a day where
uh all white people
stayed home you thought that was racist they thought you were racist for saying
that was racist and um
they decided to uh literally take over the college for a short period of time
uh the dust settled
you just got a big fat settlement you're out of there and so uh and then the
woman who was kind
of at the head of it she got a nice little chunk of change too which i thought
was quite odd yeah the
college settled with her even though it was quite clear she had no legal case
so there's a bit of a
mystery about why they would have paid her uh to resign when in fact they could
have just stood their
ground she could have probably become the president of the college if she
wanted to the way the way that
guy had responded to the students when they told him to put his hands down
because he was being
threatening and then he put his hands he's chalking them and using hand
gestures and they're like put your
hands down you're threatening us with microaggressions he puts his hands down
they all started laughing
which just tells you everything about what their intent was what was really
going on there and but
after i saw that i'm like god she could have been the president they should
have just had her be
president the whole thing was it was a kangaroo court it was mockery the whole
thing was absurd i will
say i've it's very hard to get the story right in any sort of short synopsis
and so for anybody who
really wants it's not even complete but heather and i my wife heather was also
a professor at evergreen and
we wrote a more complete version of the story that allows people to see how the
internal politics of
the college played out into what they ultimately saw on youtube so that's in
the washington examiner
last tuesday i read that yeah it's deeply disturbing it's but it's not if you've
been paying attention
and you know you and i and jordan peterson and boy a bunch of people have tried
to figure out what's
going on today like why has this movement become so aggressive and so not just
aggressive but absurd
it's not they're not it's not logical like the way they're approaching things
is from this very strange
entitled and uh just oddly fanatical way you want to be careful not to mix what
they say with what
they're actually up to because what they say is very confusing it it can't be
parsed logically there's
so many contradictions so close to the surface that one has the sense that they
are deeply confused and
some of them are but there is also a strategic movement under the surface which
we can't listen
into directly and it is more sophisticated than we think in other words it is
managing to wield power
in spite of the fact that its explanation for why it is entitled to wield power
doesn't make any sense
so what do you think the underlying motivation is like what is their or their
at least their underlying
plan i would say we have to be careful there are a lot of people who go along
with it who i would
argue are tools of the movement and they are doing its bidding without
understanding the objective but
the prime movers are quite clearly interested in taking power they want power
they have a
superficial rationalization for why they are entitled to power and they are
wielding weaponized stigma
as a mechanism for gaining it so you said that naima could have become the
president of the college
i don't know whether she could have it would have been a very unusual path but
i do know
that for more than a year i watched people unable to resist anything she said
even people who knew better
would in faculty meetings they would reflexively thank her for anything she
said no matter how absurd it was
and that was clearly a sort of you know it's the equivalent of uh wolves
bearing their jugular it was
don't hurt me i'm with you don't hurt me and so that kind of power is something
that a person who is
cynical enough to uh to wield stigma to get it might covet and so anyway i
think there's a small number of
people who really do know what they're doing and their point is we can wipe
many of the obstacles to
our having power off the map by throwing accusations at them that they cannot
resist yeah the big accusation
is racism that that's always the big one that's one that you never want to have
thrown your way if you
are deemed a racist it's like it's it's akin to being deemed a rapist even if
it's a false charge like
boy most people are going to hear the first statement before they ever look
into the the possibility of
you being exonerated it's you you being called a racist is a very very
dangerous thing in today's society
it's a very dangerous thing i do think it's important that we not um do their
bidding by
inflating that danger beyond what it actually is so i do we will never know for
sure what the
trajectory would have been absent what happened at evergreen but i do think
standing up to the
mob at evergreen and just saying frankly no i'm not a racist well here's what's
really important for
people who don't know you you're a very progressive guy you're you're very left-wing
very left-leaning
you're you're not in any way shape or form a conservative and so this like this
is this is
the left eating itself it is the left eating itself but i was also in the lucky
position of being able to
imagine what was going to happen when that accusation
broke and knowing that there were so many people who knew that that couldn't
possibly be right about
me that i was going to survive it and it's not as if there aren't huge numbers
of people who still to
this day apparently believe i'm a racist in spite of the fact that nothing has
emerged in all of the
time with all of the incentive for somebody to bring something forward that
would suggest that i have an
issue with race somewhere in my history it never emerged and so people do need
to understand that
it is possible to survive that accusation well especially with your background
though i mean
people don't know your background was it at yale that you had pen pen yeah tell
that story if you could
sure i'll do the quick and dirty version um cliff notes i was a freshman at pen
a friend of mine was
rushing a fraternity and that fraternity was holding what they called a mystery
event and i wasn't
rushing a fraternity i wasn't interested but he convinced me that i didn't have
anything to do that
night and that i should go with him and i did and after some relatively
standard fraternity shenanigans
the event turned into one in which the fraternity had hired prostitutes black
prostitutes from the
local environment and the situation pen is in a a pretty rough neighborhood and
this was a pretty wealthy
jewish frat and so there was you know something pretty unsettling about a
wealthy jewish frat hiring
black prostitutes from the local neighborhood um to engage in what started out
to be a striptease
as this thing began to unfold and i realized i didn't have any interest in
being part of this
event i made one of the bigger mistakes of my life and i left the event but
when my friend and other
members of the fraternity rolled into the dorm that night and told me what
happened i was
absolutely appalled because what had happened was the fraternity had enacted a
uh a mock
rape of these prostitutes using cucumbers and ketchup and um the idea that
there was anything
acceptable about a you know an organization that had special privileges on the
campus behaving this way
uh i i couldn't get past it and so anyway i went to the paper and various
things unfolded
the paper botched the story and uh made it look like i was troubled by the fact
that there were
strippers rather than troubled by what actually had ended up happening and i
ended up writing an
editorial for the for the paper and uh all hell broke loose um there you know i
got death threats the
police started uh tracking phone numbers on my phone to see who was threatening
me ultimately there was a
trial of the fraternity the college did not want to put the fraternity on trial
but ultimately public
pressure forced them to do it um i testified at the trial although since i hadn't
seen the thing
directly what i could say was limited but while i was in the the witness room
with the other witnesses
people who had rushed the fraternity but had not pledged it the fraternity
brothers including i believe
the president came into the witness room and started bullying these witnesses
and coaching them on what they
should say in front of this uh this university panel anyway ultimately the
university was the university
through the the frat off campus for a year forbid them from pledging a class um
and uh anyway there's
a lot more to the story i i got an award from the national organization for
women actually for uh
i forgot their terminology but for basically for standing up for for women who
needed to be defended or something like that you you said you've made the
biggest mistake one of the biggest mistakes of your life by leaving
i mean meaning that if you were there you could have probably stopped it or you
could at least have
known exactly what was going on there's no way i could have stopped it right
but
i left because i didn't want to be party to this event but sometimes i think
you know journalists know
this i was you know a freshman in college so i didn't know it yet but
journalists understand that
sometimes something horrifying happens and the job that you are best positioned
to do is documenting it so
that the world can understand how such things occur and do something about it
and if i had understood that
that that was probably my highest and best use at that moment i would have
stuck around and paid
attention to what had happened rather than having to go through convincing the
world that something
had happened which i had not directly seen yeah but how could you have known
there's no i don't
think you should be hard on yourself at all you're 18 right exactly how could
you have known and how
could you have known even if you were 30 how could you know what was going to
happen it looked like
prostitutes and you're like i don't want to be here right see you exactly you
didn't know there was
going to be a mock rape right i couldn't have known but in any case in
retrospect it was a mistake
it's so it's so crazy that they let groups of kids live in a house together and
get hammered
when they don't even have their frontal cortex developed yet i mean they're
just all living
together feeding off of each other you have mob mentality all this diffusion of
responsibility
because you have a large group of people that's also like you and everybody's
it's it's so bananas that
that as few incidents happen as they do i mean you w