Right Wing is Attacking the Field of Social Work

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The Attack

In 1997, the National Association of Social Work (NASW) altered its ethics code, ruling that all social workers must promote social justice "from local to global level." This call for mandatory advocacy raised the question: what kind of political action did the highly liberal field of social work have in mind? The answer wasn't long in coming. The Council on Social Work Education, the national accreditor of social work education programs, says candidates must fight "oppression," and sees American society as pervaded by the "global interconnections of oppression." Now aspiring social workers must commit themselves, usually in writing, to a culturally left agenda, often including diversity programs, state-sponsored redistribution of income, and a readiness to combat heterosexism, ableism, and classism.

This was all too much for the National Association of Scholars. The NAS has just released a six-month study of social work education, examining the ten largest programs at public universities for which information was available. The report, "The Scandal of Social Work," says these programs "have lost sight of the difference between instruction and indoctrination to a scandalous extent. They have, for the most part, adopted an official ideological line, closing off debate on many questions that serious students of public policy would admit to be open to the play of contending viewpoints."
http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnLeo/2007/09/11/indoctrination_101


Who is the "National Association of Scholars" you ask?

Right Wing Organizations
National Association of Scholars
221 Witherspoon Street, Second Floor
Princeton, New Jersey 08542-3215
Founded: 1985
President: Stephen H. Balch
http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=16210

Social worker responds:

And if you guys expect for clinical social work professionals to yield to right wing political pressure and adapt an unscientific view that homosexuality is totally a choice and allow for personal views of it being immoral to effect the treatment of patients, you can forget it. You can deregulate the entire profession and kick every patient in every hospital to the curb and I will still be standing in front of your yard with a sign.
http://community.cnhi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/55410432/m/8841087301/r/5531021401#5531021401

[Trillo]

1. That's a great sentence.

... sees American society as pervaded by the "global interconnections of oppression."

It certainly seems true, and sad.

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2. Of course right wing mostly sees as laziness.

[rodeodance]

3. "townhall" in the URL of the first story was all I needed to know.

[rodeodance]

4. guess they care too much?-------so unlike our WH

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6. Depending on whether a group favors oppression or opposes it...

[Cha]

5. The fascistwing needs some

Social Work..BAD.

[WinkyDink]

7. The RW is nostalgic for Dickensian England.

[proud2BlibKansan]

14. "Please Sir, may I have some more?"

The RW loves looking at the hungry child and saying "NO, I got my porridge, now you go get yours!"

[shenmue]

18. Exactly

:grr:

[BlooInBloo]

8. Makes sense.

[MadHound]

9. This is nothing new, the various fields of social work have been under attack for 25 plus years

Reagan was the one who initiated the first salvo, and sadly it has been continuing ever since. Social service, teaching, anything having to do with improving the human condition has been under bipartisan attack for a long, long while.

It is obvious that our two party/same corporate master system of government favors corporations over human beings any day of the week and twice on Sundays.

[KT2000]

10. These people

probably devour Ayn Rand's books as gospel.
My theory is that these people share a common ancestry that evolved with a chunk of their brain totally undeveloped and essentially dead.
They cannot concieve their own disability, not can they tolerate people who do not think identically to them. They have opened think tanks with the goal of using the political arena to change the rest of society to their amputated outlook.
I think they are called the sociopathic branch of humanity.

[CoffeeCat]

12. You are so right...

These people are sociopaths and psychopaths.

And the biggest threat to dysfunctional people like that, is society shining the spotlight
of truth on their pathology. These people thrive on power, manipulation, greed and they live
for themselves and they'll hurt anyone in their way.

So, they attempt to crush any organization, field or movement that is based on self actualization,
honesty and meaning. They are threatened by the world becoming good, decent and real--because
they understand very well that they are broken and incapable of operating in a functional world.

The major problem--as you astutely noted--is that they want to change society and make it conform
to their pathology.

The sad truth is--BushCo has propelled their heinous agenda more than anyone in history. Psychopaths
and liars rule the day now. Their pathology has trickled down to the most local levels. Now,
everyone lies. They do it without feeling. It's just how things are done now.

I don't want to be a pessimist. However, I feel that these warmongering neocons are thwarting
the evolution of our species. They're the lowest common denominator. They're supposed to the
model of how not to be. Instead, they're running the world.

I really hope this ends soon, because the entire human race is being driven into the ditch by
these people and the good guys (of which social workers are a part) are being positioned as
the bad guys.

[KT2000]

16. "thwarting the evolution

of our species."
Good point and shining the spotlight what we have to do.

[TreasonousBastard]

11. The right wing has ALWAYS attacked social work...

as being touchy-feely bullshit when real men and women sucked it up and worked or died trying.

I remember Goldwater, Nixon, and, of course, Reagan, who tried to kill fo social programs and constatnly attacked them as unworkable. Even going back to FDR's attempts to start Social Security and earlier attempts to institute wage and hour laws were fought occasionally to the death by conservatives.

When Teddy Roosevelt took office, an earsplitting "OH SHIT" was heard from Washington to Boston as they realized their plot to hide him in the Vice President's office so he could do no damage was now undone.

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15. Good point

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. I don't see how a social worker can be a right winger

It's an oxymoron.

[shenmue]

17. They want you to think social workers don't care about kids

The right doesn't like anybody except rich traditionalist families from the suburbs. :grr: Lying pricks.