Evergreen State Settles Lawsuit With Bret Weinstein and Wife for $500K
“They have resigned from their faculty positions at Evergreen”
Evergreen was lucky to settle for so little. Weinstein had a solid case.
The College Fix reports:
Evergreen State College settles claim with embattled professors for $500,000
Evergreen State College has settled a tort claim against it from embattled Professor Bret Weinstein and his wife, Professor Heather Heying, for $500,000, according to an email sent to faculty Friday evening.
“They have resigned from their faculty positions at Evergreen, effective today. The college will pay them a total of $450,000 and contribute an additional $50,000 toward their attorney fees,” according to the email, sent by John Carmichael, chief of staff and secretary to the board of trustees.
“In making this agreement, the college admits no liability, and rejects the allegations made in the tort claim,” Carmichael wrote.
Weinstein and Heying, both biology professors, had originally sought $3.85 million in their claim, filed July 5. It alleged that the public university “permitted, cultivated and perpetuated a racially hostile and retaliatory work environment.”
“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,” the claim alleged.
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I wonder if he sill considers himself a Progressive, now that he has more insight into what that means.
Well he certainly didn’t fold like a true Antifa believer…yeesh
They get to evacuate any wrongdoing in this circus act, and pay a meager sum. Luckily, those free market forces they hate and can’t seem to understand are already at work punishing this faculty/staff/student body of rejects.
It would be fun to know the answer to that.
So about 2 years pay, each?
Hopefully this is just an early retirement parachute and there is no effect on their retirement benefits.
Saw BW speak on bloggingheads, he is as good an example of a victim of one’s own enabling as you can find. Hope he becomes woke in a good way and continues to speak out.