SOC 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Betsy Devos, Social Isolation, Fetus
24 May 2018
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We are all criminal
1) Medical student : felony
a) “Good mother” “great doctor” “would never hurt anyone” - wouldn’t say
what she did
2) Girl drinking and smoking weed, not getting in trouble - when non-white kids were
3) Guy who has been to rehab and recovered but is guilty because when a black guy
goes through that it’s seen as a “waste on society”
Personal experience - principal not doing anything to the white football player when
pushing a kid against the wall
- Soccer team not getting punished for weed - all white
- Me being able to sneak out of school (but any black kid would get hurt because
of this)
- Girl coming to school drunk but not getting in trouble because her dad is on the
school board and known to give a lot of money to the schools
→ sports people being able to get advantages
“Who they are, not what they are”
Betsy Devos - US secretary of education doesn’t understand public school system and
doesn’t want to learn
- Put in power by President Trump
- Ridiculed by the whole team, when asked questions about schools she stuttered
and didn’t understand what was happening
- Giving more money to private schools (religious, help middle class, weeds out
very poor people)
Mass Murderers Fit Profit
- Normal looking people killing others
- Almost always male
“They’re depressed” they don’t hear voices, out of touch with reality
- Social isolation
- Killing certain types of strangers
Random attackers → sycho
Meaning behind → vengeful
- Some needs to look after people
- Talk about Nadia’s brother, being very sensitive when younger and now a jock
without emotions → “black men can’t even smile” “aren’t allowed to wear pink”
- Tweet about don’t care about fetus until out of the womb
Document Summary
Personal experience - principal not doing anything to the white football player when pushing a kid against the wall. Soccer team not getting punished for weed - all white. Me being able to sneak out of school (but any black kid would get hurt because of this) Girl coming to school drunk but not getting in trouble because her dad is on the school board and known to give a lot of money to the schools. Sports people being able to get advantages. Betsy devos - us secretary of education doesn"t understand public school system and doesn"t want to learn. Ridiculed by the whole team, when asked questions about schools she stuttered and didn"t understand what was happening. Giving more money to private schools (religious, help middle class, weeds out very poor people) They"re depressed they don"t hear voices, out of touch with reality.
