Posted on 05/09/2024 4:04:54 AM PDT by karpov
At nearly all American colleges and universities, the “soft” disciplines have been overrun by “progressives” who insist that their beliefs alone must be taught, whether or not they’re pertinent to the subject. They are determined to turn students into ideological clones of themselves. Will this indoctrination help students succeed after graduation? That question never arises.
My recent Martin Center article about a lawsuit brought by a professor in UNC’s School of Social Work prompts a look into the politicization of that field. Part of the background to that case was the School’s overwrought reaction to the death of George Floyd in 2020. On June 19, 2020, Dean Gary Bowen published an “Anti-Racism Task Force Letter” announcing the creation of an Anti-Racism Task Force and a Reconciliation Standing Committee.
The upshot of this was a determination to “uproot racism” throughout the School. Had anyone previously detected even the slightest trace of racism in this bastion of modern liberalism? No, but for Dean Bowen, this was a made-to-order opportunity for virtue signaling.
He also published a “Recommitment to Social Justice Letter,” asserting that “social justice is our cornerstone as social workers and people of conscience. We must be leaders and focus our efforts on combating all aspects of individual and structural racism in our nation and our world.” He expressed shame that the School hadn’t done better in fighting “patterns of oppression” that block people of color. That is an article of faith among leftists—society’s built-in oppression is the barrier to racial justice. It’s true everywhere, even in UNC’s School of Social Work.
A veteran professor of social work has just written an article that dares to criticize her field’s obsession with “social justice.”
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Here's an answer. From 1963...
Bureaucracy Kills: A Lesson from Rome
Can't say we weren't warned.
Social workers are leftists because they have a financial stake in creating and cultivating defective people and institutions. They’d be out of business if everyone was normal.
This isn’t a new development. I took a sociology course in college over 40 years and it was far left even then.
N.Y. pension costs to rise by more than $4 billion under new plan
It's good to be Deep State.
To fight racism means fighting offensive language, displays of anger, theft, violence and other types of anti-social behavior.
It should be recognized that the majorities of all racial conduct themselves in an acceptable way.
The outliers need to shape up or be shaped up.
White people can not in themselves end racism.
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Judges at all levels need to understand that community leaders must have the legal power to end anti-social behavior.
Some jobs are very difficult. Other jobs require uncommon skills. Not all people can do any particular job. As a result, some jobs come with premium pay. A doctor is going to make far more than a burger flipper.
The one guy making burgers at the busy Burger King I am patronizing does an impressive job.
It should be recognized that Los Angeles has a better climate than Duluth, MN.
As such Los Angeles real estate commands a substantial premium compared to Duluth real estate.
To live in Los Angeles means paying more for real estate than one would for comparable size, type and condition Duluth real estate.
Not everyone can live in the places with first class climates. For many people, Los Angeles will have unaffordable real estate.
By the time social workers get to deal with adults those adults have followed a defective life pathway.
“The pill is 99% effective at preventing pregnancy — but only if you take it every day. Forgetting to take the pill at the scheduled time increases your chances of pregnancy if you’re sexually active. Nine out of every 100 people on the pill have unintended pregnancies each year.”
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/3977-birth-control-the-pill
Unless all the second-rate housing is replaced (or all the first-rate housing degraded), there is going to be inequality.
Even Republicans like Marco Rubio believe in tossing money at problems.
Of course, taking money from many people creates problems too.
Let the LOSERS stew in each others’ shiite.
Malcolm X once stated that the problems in the black community can only be solved by the black community.
Wonder what the response would be if someone were to say that problems in the white community can only be solved by the white community?
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