In Michigan. Winter in Michigan. After kidnapping them and robbing them. I keep repeating this because I’m having trouble wrapping my head around the level of cruel and evil going on here all at once
The Bush Library is victim blaming everyone who suffered and/or died in Katrina. The are doing this at tax payer expense. I have no words for how angry this makes me.
I haven’t written about the situation in Bangladesh as I simply hadn’t the heart. They noticed a massive crack and a safety inspector told management they needed to evacuate the workers immediately. Management of course said no as they are only garment workers. Of course it collapsed and now 183 are dead and many more trapped and/or wounded. It reminds me of the Shirtwaist fire, all those innocent people dead because greedy management doesn’t give a fuck about the safety of people working for them. Everyone would be safe and alive if the rich considered workers people and took basic precautions. But no. People are demonstrating, demanding arrests, the government has put them off with the sort of commission where justice goes to die. Of course. The rich protect the rich and don’t give a fuck about the horror and misery they leave in their wake.
she works at a hospital in the adult psych unit. Today, she was told that in the children’s unit, last Friday, a white male therapist told a racially insensitive joke, making a young black male patient the butt of it. She wasn’t clear on all the details but said the therapist apparently said to the child “It has to do with race, do you mind if I tell it?” Of course, the kid says yes to this man in power and the idiot proceeds to pick up a cotton ball and tell the kid to pick it.
WHAT THE FUCK!?!?! You have a young black child (not sure of age, but under 17) who clearly already has issues, because he is in the psych unit, for treatment and the “professional” who is supposed to be helping him basically calls him a slave!?!? And, white people wonder why black people do not trust the healthcare system, particularly mental health professionals. You all can go fuck yourselves
That therapist needs to be fired. No amount of supervision would ever correct that kind of behavior but more importantly, that therapist has gone against all the ethics of being a mental health worker. What’s worse is that if the child ever tried to take action against the therapist, nothing would come of it. The power dynamics between clients and workers are too skewed in the worker’s favor (in my experience) and very few workers are actively trying to reduce that discrepancy.
One thing that continues to boggle my mind is when my co-workers say things like, “race doesn’t matter in counseling” or “I’m just trying to help, why won’t they talk to me just because I’m white?” It’s absolutely sickening and I hope through continued education and hearing about people’s experiences that I can work on ending this kind of attitude because it flies in the face of being in the client’s best interest.
(Source: radicalrebellion)
Stephen Colbert on Stacey Campfeild, the guy trying to pass a bill to require teachers and Councillors to out gay students. Apparently, he’s also planning to cut welfare to children in poverty because he thinks being hungry and homeless makes one a better student. O.o
They are relaunching the Tennessee “Don’t Say Gay” Law, only with a new provision requiring teachers and counselors to out gay teens, presumably because legalizing bullying doesn’t make their lives unbearable enough.