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Diversity Class

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Elaine Bleakney
Mar 17, 2025
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This semester I am in a class called Diversity Issues for Helping Professionals. Early in the semester, the small-minded fearful humans in power outside of our classroom slashed the class at its root.

Our class altered (and proceeded unaltered by the University).

The central idea of class had been: Check yourself before you wreck others.

The MAGA idea outside: wreck the Other, wreck others, get on top.

The new class idea: Check the Other. Check others. Mind the wrecking energy.

I am rethinking what a “helping professional” might be.

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