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Record for NoIndoctrination.org entry #128.

Minneapolis Community and Technical College (MCTC)

Dec. 30, 2002

http://db.mctc.mnscu.edu

Course: SOC 2145: American Minority Relations

Course Catalog Description: This course examines the idea of "minority group" in the historical and present context of American society. Along with equality, freedom, and justice-discrimination, inequality and racism are among our oldest values. This course seeks to confront this contradiction openly and honestly.

Professor: Diane M. Miller

Required? Yes, for my major or minor

Lecture Bias: Excessive

Comments: This course is a required course in the State of Minnesota to become a police officer. I am a returning student with a 4 year degree in Education, now seeking to become a police officer. From the first day, the instructor Diane M. Miller created an environment that was hostile towards heterosexual white men. She informed the class that she wanted to change the name of the course to American Minority Oppression. She stated on the first day something to the effect that "If you want to become a police officer, you have to get through me first." She also stated that she makes copies of the papers of "questionable students" in order to testify against them if they are ever accused of shooting or harassing a minority. She later stated that she expected students to write what she wanted to hear, whether they believed in it or not. Her idea was that of the 16 required papers, if a student began to repeat her rhetoric, they would eventually change the way they thought. She would point at the few white heterosexual men in the class and state something like “they oppress you on a daily basis.” She stated that until white men stopped running the country nothing would change, and they (the minority students of the class) would remain oppressed by us. She inferred that white men were worse than the 9/11 hijackers since they terrorize people every day. At times, the few white men in the class were referred to as "typical white guys," "hopeless white guys," and "f---ing white guys." She attempted to lead the class to believe that white men had complained about her. On this day it appeared that she attempted to incite a riot in the classroom by pointing at the white men and stating something like “those f---ing white guys sitting down there looking so smug. You tell them how they make you feel, you tell them what they do to you. Some of them have told me they feel uncomfortable in this class. Now, they know what you feel like every day.”

Discussion Bias: Excessive

Comments: When other view points were discussed, Diane Miller would either down play them or say something like, "Now you know how they feel!" She would use outdated materials to try to reinforce her biased arguments. She would state half truths in order to evoke sympathy.

Readings Bias: Excessive

Comments: The texts were Privilege, Power, and Difference by Allan G. Johnson & The Meaning of Difference by Karen E. Rosenblum.

General Comments: This course had nothing to do with Minority Relations in the United States of America. It was simply forced diversity training in an attempt to indoctrinate young people and immigrants in to the demonization of the heterosexual white male. This instructor is not scheduled to teach Spring 2003 at MCTC. The problem remains: Where will this woman go next?

[Note: Both the student and NoIndoctrination.org contacted the school administration.]

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