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Finally figured out why most social workers make me uncomfortable after I changed degree programs- it’s takes a special kind of god complex to go into a low income high marginalized population neighborhood and think you can fix it with 
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I’m not saying there isn’t good social workers but most of the ones from both colleges I went to were intensely homophobic racist with extreme white savior complexes that thought they could undo generations of systemic oppression and trauma with a bachelors degree and some smiles
Let me be clear I didn’t leave social work willingly: I was forced to switch due to prejudice within the program administration (which I’ve talked about before- brockport sucked) but it was one of the best blessings I have ever received in my life to be forced out of that shit
In my first college a room full of social work majors all agreed they’d hypothetically hire someone they knew was a rapist because it “wasn’t their job” to believe a victim of rape. I was the only one who thought that was a problem apparently
My second school, a male social work student said in front of the class that he didn’t think you could rape your wife cause they consented by marrying you and only about 5 of us got mad about it? I had just found out 10 minutes before that class my rapist gave me an std -
- and I was called dramatic and got spoken to by the head of our program for QUIETLY removing myself from the room because I was having a panic attack. I wasn’t on track to work with rape victims, and even if I was I shouldn’t have been expected to be chill about someone saying -
-that it’s ok to assault your spouse. I watched multiple extremely racist and homophobic people get their degrees through brockport and then get sent to work with marginalized populations and all I can think is that people are gonna end up dead cause of them
I know multiple women of color who were kicked from the program the same way I was because they reported a white professor who called them the N word in front of a classroom of students
All of this adds up to the fact that colleges are training social workers who look good on paper with their diversity training and degrees, but will ultimately end up harming anyone who is actually systemically oppressed. People die because of this shit but it’s a game to them
(Out of the people from both of my colleges that I met through social work, MAYBE 4 of them who stuck it out were actually in it for the right reasons and wouldn’t be directly harmful, because most of us left the programs before the end after seeing how-
Absolutely awful it was going to make us, or we were kicked out because we didn’t fit the mold the campus wanted to churn out)
