Academic freedom means that all sides get to speak and we welcome and listen respectfully to the entire, diverse range of views. We have tolerance of those with different views as long as they want to empower and help the populations we seek to serve. We welcome debate. It is healthy. I say, let's recruit more conservative social workers and encourage any closet-conservatives to speak up. Maybe they're too scared to say anything because our rhetoric sounds a little scary toward them (like we don't tolerate their views?.... nah not us, we're tolerant, right?).
Have a great day,
Ron
On 9/23/07, maryerico@... <maryerico@...
> wrote:
Sounds like a bunch of right-wing rhetoric to me. . . .Let's go celebrate our lefty ideology!MaryIn a message dated 9/23/2007 9:36:11 PM Pacific Daylight Time, lvroman1@... writes:"The state of social-work education in the United States is a
"national academic scandal" rife with lefty ideology and doctrinaire
rhetoric, says the National Association of Scholars
[http://www.nas.org/ ]. ..."
Read the rest:
http://chronicle.com/news/article/3010/group-renews-attacks-on-social-work-programs-as-inherently-liberal
What do you group members think?
Laura
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