SHAME AT THE SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT

Powerline ^ | 06/06/2020 | Steven Hayward

[DFG]

Apparently two of the four Minneapolis police officers on the scene of the death of George Floyd not only attended the University of Minnesota, but were students in . . . the Sociology department! This has caused something of a crisis for the department, as you might imagine. The leadership of the department has reportedly asked grad students not to make any comments to the media about the two officers, or how the department clearly failed in their primary mission of indoctrinating these two pre-officers into proper socialism.

One Ph.D student in the department is not happy about any of this, and issued this Tweet thread:

2 of the police officers charged with aiding and abetting the murder of George Floyd were previously students in the Sociology dept. at the University of Minnesota.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

“2 of the police officers charged with aiding and abetting the murder of George Floyd were previously students in the Sociology dept. at the University of Minnesota.”

I don’t usually talk to graduates of the University of Minnesota Sociology Department, but when I do I say, “I’ll take fries with that.”

[Da Coyote]

A Sociology Department is a shame - to any university that has a Sociology Department.

[Dr. Sivana]

I don’t usually talk to graduates of the University of Minnesota Sociology Department, but when I do I say, “I’ll take fries with that.”

Many of the IT guys I worked with had social science degrees. I had assistant head of computing who had a PhD in Psychology, co-workers with degrees in sociology, humanities and English. Good friends of mine who graduated from the same liberal arts college (philosophy, French) are now successful programmers and IT salesmen. In my last position, the fellow two levels up didn't even GO to college (he was IT department director at a regional bank). A couple of my friends left college early (psychology and theology) and are now programmers (one is with Microsoft, another is with a well known pro-life organization). My own degree is in political science.

There is NOTHING wrong with a good political science degree, and there is nothing wrong with thing of college as more (or different) than "job training".

[Ouchthatonehurt]

Just joking around. I have a friend who is head of a Sociology Department and he laments to me that all his undergraduate students want to do is CSI, because they watch the show. I asked him how many PhD students he had and he said...none.

If you’re not doing research, the undergrads are probably better off getting good job experience than spending 150k on a degree - unless its a great, well rounded, college. Just my 2 cents.

[pelican001]

Sociology is shit.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

There is NOTHING wrong with a good political science degree,

Sigh. Beverly Scott, PhD, degreed in political science was the head of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA). Well it snowed like hell the winter of 2014-2015 in Boston. Under Scott's erudite leadership the Fu'kn trains stopped running for a month. She didn't know how to manage snow removal operations. They should have had someone with engineering skills managing this authority, not a professional political hack.

Beverly Scott

[PrincessB]

Well, this is fun. Part of the reason that the grad students were warned is because there is a law called the Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). If a student has invoked FERPA, the school is not allowed to acknowledge that the student is enrolled.

The University can be sued and fined. The reminder was CYA. If the Ph.D. students are personally mentioned in a law suit, the university doesn’t have to cover their attorneys.

Considering that one of the ph,d. Students was dumb enough to voluntarily talk, the school did something right.

[norwaypinesavage]

"Yesterday, my [the University of Minnesota Sociology] dept. sent the grad students an email requesting we stay silent if contacted by media."

It's obvious from this email, that "The U" is teaching its students to be nothing but obedient minions to authority.

It's equally obvious that the department has been highly successful at it. The two rookie cops (who were also U of M Sociology students) simply stood idly by while their leader, Officer Chauvin, told them to shut up and be quiet. As expected and taught, they duly obeyed.