Is one of my former professors a lunatic nutjob?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

This guy taught Ethnic Studies my freshman year. He has a Ph.D. He's been teaching for more than 20 years. He's been to 15 countries, and has spent as long as 2 years on overseas studying expedition, such as with Native tribes in far northern Canada. I think he's pretty damn brilliant.

Anyway, he believes that Bush had prior knowledge of 9/11 and deliberately let it happen for political gain and to give a pretense to go to war to set up oil pipelines. And he showed my class a video making that claim. According to many people, that makes him a lunatic and a nutjob, despite all his credentials.

I say no.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Yes... ya could say that. And what the hell is "ethnic studies"?

It's kind of like sociology, but only looking at the ethnic aspects of it. Such as the causes of segregation, ethnic conflicts, etc.

As for what the video had to do with the class, well nothing. But Swingers and The Breakfast Club don't have anything to do with Speech either, and we got to watch those movies in that class.

As for using the class to bash Bush and push political views, I can't think of many professors who DON'T do that. Take my Geography professor this year. He used the Kashmiri earthquake as an opportunity to talk about how Bush only lent them 8 hour helicopters to deal with relief out of the hundreds we have in the region, and how the Bush administration has screwed up on just about every disaster relief case so far.

Oh, and the Ethnic Studies guy is never being fired. He is very very popular among students, and the university is so liberal it distributed "voter guides" that were published by an openly communist organization.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Where's the proof?

I'll try to look up what that video was called. It has the proof. I know it's quite popular on DU.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Right, because when Bush became president, he assumed responsibility for all disaster relief in the entire world.

He was mostly talking about Katrina though.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I live in a fairly liberal part of Canada, which is supposedly the world center for anti-Americanism, and I've only once had a professor make any negative comments about Bush, and that was just an off-the-cuff remark that was not intended to be part of the lecture.

I'm curious which came first: BRTD's ideology or his university.  I certainly have a feeling there's a connection between them in one way or another.

Well of course. Your professors don't have to live under Bush. If you had a Conservative government, you probably would hear more.

As to which came first, ideology for the most part. I largely developed it near the end of my junior year. That's part of what made me really look forward to college, its reputation as a liberal haven. When I graduated I was actually a bit more of a militant leftist. I was an atheist who largely adhered to Marxist ideology, in fact I was a lot like opebo without being sex crazed. I've gotten much more sex crazed since then.

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Is it a sort of U.S version of Thames Valley?

Never heard of that place, but it is slightly to the right of the University of Minnesota. Not too different from most universities.

Oh, and your geography "professor" is a clueless fool also.

A clueless fool who also has a Ph.D. and has had his writings published in some prominent journals? They both have high scores on www.ratemyprofessors.com too.

Those are just two examples though, I've had a ton more. There was my Business Ethics professor who showed the class the blatantly far left wing biased documentary "The Corporation" and an excerpt from a Michael Moore film.  There's my government professor this semester who at least TRIES to leave his politics out of the class, but doesn't do so usually. And then there was my Urban Design one who would give lectures on suburbs that are quite similar to posts about them, unsurprisingly she actually lived in Minneapolis and was a U of M grad student. (She was HOT too. I really really enjoyed that class )

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

BRTD, what is the name of your university?

Actual name is Minnesota State University, Mankato but it's usually just called Minnesota State University (there are other Minnesota State Universities, but they have different names.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

BRTD, what is the name of your university?

Actual name is Minnesota State University, Mankato but it's usually just called Minnesota State University (there are other Minnesota State Universities, but they have different names.

Is your name Joe Kunkel?

no

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Well like I said, the Rate My Professors scores show that the students sure like them.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

It's not that it makes current terrorists "madder", it's that it gives them more support. There's a lot more potential Al-Qaeda recruits in Iraq now than there was prior to invading.