Activism = Self-election ✅

If you are denied career opportunities, if you are more likely to be disciplined, if SWE disproportionately sanctions you, if you are more likely to be bullied by your manager, if your mental health is damaged by your employer disproportionately and all that because you are not a white employee, I wouldn’t call that glass half empty. I’d call that discrimination with impunity. Specially as it’s the same picture time and again. Talk is cheap and the sad thing is most social workers are prepared to ignore their own workplace experiences to accomodate this pretence at action. Nowt glass half empty about that either.

Failure?! Glass half-empty…

Hundred percent in agreement. Managers and self elected champions congratulating themselves for their year on year failure.

Collecting data with the same themes year in year out is just an exercise not effectively tackling disparities and changing those outcomes. Here’s my prediction for free. Next year we’ll still be told that racial disparities are as prevalent as they are now, that discrimination and career blocks are as evident and the rest. Feeling good about identifying disparities isn’t the same as being good at tackling them. That’s not a triumph for me.