I graduated from Evergreen 10 years ago. I started in 2003, in my late 20s. My first couple years there, I was heavily involved in political activism...mostly anti- Iraq war and pro-Palestinian stuff. (I was friends with Rachel Corrie - a girl who who was killed in Gaza, in March, 2003; she was run over by an Israeli military bulldozer while trying to prevent a Palestinian doctor's home from being demolished.) But I started to grow out of it. The constant bickering, the yelling, the posturing, the name calling... it just started getting to me. A big reason I got involved with pro-Palestinian activism was because I met people where very critical of what Israel was doing who understood the perspectives of Jews who supported the state of Israel. I was interested in helping create real peace...not just proving to as many people as I could that I was on the "right" side. But I eventually started seeing that a whole lot of the pro-Palestinian people I was associating with were really quite angry, and didn't have any interest in listening, to opinions of people that were different from theirs, or of trying to learn from others' perspectives. Also, identity politics started to become more and more important...and I found myself getting into arguments with activist friends over stupid, petty nonsense. So I stopped attending activist activities.

As a white, male, protestant, who had grown up in poverty (I didn't finish high school; I'd worked a series of crappy jobs from age 15 up until I started at Evergreen) I had never been into "identity politics". I just never felt there was anything there for me, and I never could see how it was ever going to lead to a more peaceful, just world. I'd never felt particularly "privileged", and I had never really thought affirmative action was all that important. I was definitely not racist...I jut didn't buy into these particular left-wing ideas: I considered "class" to be much more important than race or sex, or any of the other categories people on the left now constantly label each other as. Also... I didn't support the idea of gay marriage, didn't have a problem with having some restrictions on abortion, and didn't think pharmacies that were owned by Christians should be forced to sell the morning after pill. (I had grown up in a Christian household). Amongst my activist friends, I had learned to avoid discussing my opinion about these subjects, and for the most part, I succeeded in not getting into arguments about these subjects. But as I said, some time around 2006, identity politics started becoming more and more important to "progressives"...and it started to become more difficult for me to feel comfortable with the activists with whom I had been associating.

What students who are there now, can't see, because they are too young and haven't been around for very long, is that in the past decade or so, the meaning of "progressive" has changed. The political, activist left in this country has always been a little loony, and always attracted criticism from the right (often, rightly so), but it's really gone off the rails in recent years, becoming obsessed with a quixotic "revolt against oppression" (as the OP puts it), that actually causes hatred and racism, instead of lessoning it.

If you actually want to understand why so many "denizens" of Evergreen don't support the silliness currently going on there (it's not just people who have no connection there posting here), look at David Rubin's youtube clip why he thinks "the left is no longer liberal", and really try to understand what he's saying, without just cavalierly dismissing him as "alt-right" - because he's not. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq86Beh3T70