Social Justice: Orphan or Exile
Most of us have voted by now for the next President of the United States. The candidates have been talking for months about many, many issues, but mostly themselves, talking about, and defending themselves. If this were not an anonymous blog, I'd offer each my card . Social workers are generally democratic, and highly educated, and when educators get together, some 3,000 educators, as they did last week for the Council for Social Work Education (CSWE) annual program meeting in Atlanta, the synapses in the halls of the hotel burn so bright, the place might just burn down. (Social workers like to speak in hyperbole). When I told my son, who I consider a balanced man, about the topics presented at CSWE's # APM16 , he opined, "Wow, you guys must be the most pinko-liberal educators in the country!" Maybe. Yet we are a diverse group, not always predictable, and despite the mostly liberal leanings, nobody has it in for social workers anymore, not like the late Mike Royko d...