Accuses unknown professor of ‘ racist dog whistling,” Penn of’ fascism’
After she refused to level the child’s project, a prison/police abolitionist interpersonal work student accused one of her University of Pennsylvania faculty of using a “racist dog bell.”
The scholar, Zara Raven, ended up reporting the professor via Penn’s discrimination reporting program,  , according to one of her comments on X.
The matter? According to Raven, the” play treatment “professor told her” I will not be grading]the project] because I feel uncomfortable.”
( According to the play treatment program information, play” is the method children use to learn and understand their worlds,” and that” when working with children and adolescents, social workers usually utilize play as a major treatment intervention. ” The class” approach ]es ] play therapy from perspectives of multicultural competence, empowerment, social justice, and inclusion.” )
Raven does n’t state exactly what made the doctor feel” unsafe,” but she had created a presentation on” using zines to make mad maps , as a kind of , expressive art therapy with disabled survivors of position violence.”
Raven’s presentation’s premise was that” state violence targets disabled people, and state violence is disabling. Use of force against civilians by state officials can include police or military actions, as well as social media interventions aimed at preventing families from splintering under the pretext of” child welfare.” “
Examples of such ( state ) violence include the genocide perpetrated by Israel with the assistance of the United States against the mentally ill Walter Wallace in Philadelphia four years ago.
” We can put an end to harmful practices in social work like mandated reporting, educate ourselves about the ways social work upholds oppressive systems like settler colonialism, and organize toward collective liberation,” Raven noted in her presentation.
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In her complaint printed in The Daily Pennsylvanian, Raven ( pictured ) claimed Penn had fallen victim to” fascism” as the school” refuses to use the word’ genocide’ to refer to the mass murder and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.”
Penn also uses police raids against unarmed students, and has implemented” repressive guidelines “regarding free speech.
And now, professors like hers ( allegedly ) openly believe they” can get away with blatant acts of discrimination,” Raven said.
Pretty serious stuff. Since it’d be nice to know the professor’s side of the story, I asked Raven via email for offending prof’s information. But like to the many on X who likewise had inquired, she did not respond.
I also sent a request for comment from Penn School of Social Policy & Practice Dean Sara Bachman. She did n’t respond either.
Lastly, I emailed the School of Social Policy &, Practice’s general media inquiry address asking which professors are teaching play therapy this semester. Again, no reply.
In response to Raven’s original tweet about her complaint, people wondered if the professor is a Zionist/Jew:
In the 1990s, I attended Penn, and a number of Zionists were attempting to fire one of the few Palestinian professors because he made them feel “unsecure.”
— FTouhami ( @lasfarishtas ) October 25, 2024
Name her please. This is for the safety of the students.
Zionists are making disturbing headlines among students, and if nothing is done, more people could suffer and become victims. https: //t. co/OfKLN8ET4m
— Quibble ( @JonDohNumbers ) October 26, 2024
She deserves to feel unsafe if she recognizes her kinship with IOF, just as everyone who practices nazi should do so.
— Matt McGowan ( @mattkmcg ) October 27, 2024
Perhaps a zionist Jew, was your teacher?
— Mystical Owl ( @fijiflowers8888 ) October 25, 2024
ZioNaZ dystopia.
— Thomas Collins (@TommytheObscure ) October 26, 2024
The as-yet-unknown professor allegedly made an all-too-common remark about the” safe space,” which far-leftists do frequently, in the ultimate irony of this obsceneness. ” But if the professor is indeed Jewish/a Zionist, it wo n’t matter — leftists do n’t recognize them on the unofficial progressive oppression hierarchy ( to which Raven, I suspect, subscribes ).
On X, Raven describes herself as a” mad queer mama, care worker, zinester, “and” #8toAbolition cocreator. ” In May of last year, she” shared ]her ] wisdom “regarding” youth liberation “in a Truthout article blasting the parents ‘ rights movement as a” right-wing justification” for its” anti-trans, anti-Black, anti-immigrant, ableist onslaught.”
She believes the concept of children as their parents ‘” property “is a” problem” … because kids are” autonomous human beings with their own feelings, needs and experiences.”
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