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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 919 Social Work: Good, Bad, or Ugly?

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Patrick Gann recently graduated from Millersville University with a degree in social work. We discuss the ideological slant and unexamined assumptions to be found within social work departments and out in the field.

Show notes for Ep. 919

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 919.

0:03.2

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0:07.8

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Ron Paul homeschool.com. Hello, everybody. Tom Woods here. Talking today to Patrick Gann,

0:34.7

who recently graduated from Millersville University with a master's in social work,

0:40.1

and we're going to just talk about social work and what the ideological commitments of it

0:46.7

tend to be, whether there's an upside to it, of course, he must think there is, and what the

0:53.0

potential perils are. So it seems like a

0:55.0

kind of topic we might want to cover here on the show. I will have his Twitter account up at

1:00.4

Tom Woods.com slash 919, if you'd like to follow him. He's at gameodactyl.com, because he's a,

1:07.0

he likes to play video games in his spare time. But in any case, I now welcome Patrick to the show.

1:12.9

Patrick, thanks for being here.

1:14.2

Hi, it's a pleasure to be here.

1:15.7

I think I've known one other person in social work who's had some libertarian leaning.

1:20.6

So this is very interesting to me.

1:22.5

I know a guy, maybe I don't know if I should mention his name.

1:25.5

I don't think he'd care, Josh McCabe, who is in sociology, which of course is a totally different field, but all the same.

1:31.0

That's another field where there aren't a lot of people sympathetic to our point of view,

1:34.5

but he's totally hardcore libertarian, so it makes me happy to know that he exists.

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