Posted on 06/06/2020 5:21:01 PM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
“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.”
A Sociology Department is a shame - to any university that has a Sociology Department.
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.
Sociology is shit.
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.
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 doesnt have to cover their attorneys.
Considering that one of the ph,d. Students was dumb enough to voluntarily talk, the school did something right.
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.
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