The Evergreen State College professor who was forced off campus due to student protests over his comments opposing segregation is reportedly now suing the university for $3.85 million in damages for creating a hostile environment.
Biology professor Bret Weinstein was told by campus police that he was not safe on campus after a viral video captured student protesters accusing him of racism due to his opposition to the Day of Absence. The Day of Absence instructed white people to leave campus for a day.
The Olympian reports Weinstein’s lawyer filed a tort claim on July 5 with the Department of Enterprise Services Office of Risk Management on behalf of Weinstein and his wife, Heather Heying, who is also a professor at Evergreen State College.
According to the Olympian, Weinstein’s lawyer’s 14-page tort claim narrative claims the school “has permitted, cultivated, and perpetuated a racially hostile and retaliatory work environment.”
It continues:
Through a series of decisions made at the highest levels, including to officially support a day of racial segregation, the college has refused to protect its employees from repeated provocative and corrosive verbal and written hostility based on race, as well as threats of physical violence. TESC consistently has failed to set and enforce necessary boundaries in the workplace on campus, selectively has chosen not to enforce its student Code of Conduct, and sent the unmistakable message that the school will tolerate (and even endorse) egregious violations (and even crimes) purportedly to advance racial social goals, diminishing the collegiate experience for all, and fostering a racially hostile work and retaliatory environment for faculty and staff.
The Seattle Times claims the letter says the narrative claims Weinstein and his wife were harassed by students and faculty while the school left the “harassers in charge of the workplace and Professor Weinstein on the run.”
Evergreen State College closed for multiple days following threats related to the racial protests on campus.
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