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[nola_beatrice]

It's National Social Work Month and the national association has all these suggestions about things to tweet or what to put in a letter to the editor and I just...can't. So much of it is faux cheerful or ass-kissy or a hundred other things that drive me nuts. And that's even without considering the ridiculousness of expecting social workers to spend a month (that is ostensibly about them) justifying their own existence and encouraging people to...what? Pat us on the back? Join our ranks? Seems like time I could spend doing my actual job. Especially when most people fall into one of two groups: the ones who have some idea of what social workers do and are glad for it, and the ones I have no words for other than

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[nola_grantaire]

caring about people is considered radical, which is gross. stealing that meme though

[nola_beatrice]

Right? I'm not saying all the world's problems would disappear if people just tried to be decent human beings and give a shit, but they'd be a lot more manageable.

[nola_grantaire]

agreed. totally agreed. the world sucks.