I agree. But these people see it as diametrically opposite. “You’re gay and want healthcare? You’re forcing your beliefs on me.”
Insanity.
Ms. Pane trains Social Workers. The number of students in Intro who say to her “I wanna be a social worker, but I don’t want to have to go into the homes of gay people” is crazy.
Do I even want to know the stats on “I don’t want to have to go into the homes of poor people”?
…or drug users
…or black people (I am assuming the term people of color would not be used…)
Well, poverty and race generally aren’t things that come up in that context. 60% of our student body are POC, and we are a high Pell Grant institution—most of our students are on some kind of aid. But this “not the gays” attitude was true at our last institution, which was about 80% white. The commonality is “very very rural, very evangelical Christian.”
I am glad to hear that. I was fearing that it was more cases of "I don’t want to perform the primary functions of the job/serve the groups that depend on my services.
I am curious - over the course of the training (which I am assuming involves a lot of discussion of empathy) do the ones that stick with it despite the gays improve in their outlook?
They get told pretty bluntly “that’s not your choice. You work with everyone, equally” and then there are many many classes that deal with professional ethics and such.
Some dropout, some change their minds, and some almost certainly keep their mouths shut and get through.
it’s amazing how much better policy works rather than just asking nicely and hoping for the best
because yeah, nobody is forcing anyone to be a doctor, or a social worker, or a baker of cakes. if you decide to do a job that involves the public, then you should never be able to turn away a whole class of people
( and the same “policy is better than asking nicely” applies to cops and training when training is saying please do x rather than saying you must do x or you lose your job
and also exactly the same again for “responsible gun ownership”. you can ask nicely for everyone to pretty please only shoot the bad guys, or you can establish a no guns law and actually protect everyone. )
This is what we’re up against. It’s what’s going to continue if we don’t call out this language each and every ducking time it happens.
He’ll be one of the first up against the wall.
they’ll vote for fascism? i guess that’s one way to pretend to keep their hands clean. yikes
Again, I’ll say that punks learned this one weird trick in the 80s - that if you want to stop the fascists from coming around, you make them feel unwelcome at the start. They come and start trouble in the pit, throw their asses out of the club. They harass people on the street, you stand up to them. We know how to deal with these assholes and it’s not be letting their “ideas” be part of normal political or culture discourse.
Triggering warning for a discussion on suicide:
Gonna cross-post this to BLM and the misogyny threads.
The earth is becoming uninhabitable.
The Shenandoah Valley is predicted to be one of the relatively safe spots as climate warms. Last week we were at 95oF with 80+% humidity. That is edging very close to AC or die territory. I was out in it. It was unbearable. In one of the safest spots in the country. We are in serious trouble, and it does not give one good goddam whether that challenges your political position or not.
Time to open that madrassa in Kennebunkport that I’ve always dreamed of.
Aren’t there cases of this happening since 9/11 that they never found the person doing it?
Well, thank god for that.
