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The University of Southern California's School of Social Work will no longer use the word "field" because it "may have connotations for descendants of slavery and immigrant workers that are not benign," according to a letter from the department.

USC's Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work will make the change in order to ensure the use of "inclusive language and practice," according to the letter.

"Specifically, we have decided to remove the term 'field' from our curriculum and practice and replace it with 'practicum,'" the letter said. "This change supports anti-racist social work practice by replacing language that would be considered anti-Black or anti-immigrant in favor of inclusive language."

"Language can be powerful, and phrases such as 'going into the field' or 'field work' maybe have connotations for descendants of slavery and immigrant workers that are not benign," the letter continued.

The goal of the change was to "to honor and acknowledge inclusion and reject white supremacy, anti-immigrant and anti-blackness ideologies," according to the letter.

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https://www.foxnews.com/media/california-university-longer-word-field-over-racist-connotations

Every morning leftists show that there is no limit to their stupidity.

California is wrong.

HTH

"Cotton" is racist

My dad's coworkers gave him this mug when he left one of his jobs.

University of Southern California's School of Social Work = California?

Kyle Practicum? No thank you.

1984 is being used as a manual by leftists.

usc has a traditionally good football team. they play in the colesium on a patch of grass callled a football field. i am sure the usc football team feels very oppressed.

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Kyle Practicum? No thank you.

1984 is being used as a manual by leftists.

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TexAgs91 said:

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University of Southern California's School of Social Work = California?

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(Definition) Creep: move slowly and carefully in order to avoid being heard or noticed.

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"This change supports anti-racist social work practice by replacing language that would be considered anti-Black or anti-immigrant in favor of inclusive language."

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It's pretty damn racist of her to assume that only blacks and immigrants work in the fields.

That has to be one of the most idiotic linguistic connections made yet. Any agriculture is associated with a field and ALL agriculture has been free from association with slavery for generations.

Talk about an idiotic reach. Next they'll outlaw the word labor, or tools, or hands, or whatever.

Arr they only referring to the fields on the other side of the tracks?

I work in a technology field known as software engineering. Is that field racist?

God, these people are blithering idiots.

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"This change supports anti-racist social work practice by replacing language that would be considered anti-Black or anti-immigrant in favor of inclusive language."

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It's pretty damn racist of her to assume that only blacks and immigrants work in the fields.

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Exactly.

I am a white boy who chopped many an acre of cotton. I have fought the johnson grass and sunflowers, the milkweed and the ivy, all the while being stunned by bees and fireants, and hoping a snake hasn't decided to take shade under a cotton plant.

I am nearly 50 years old and still have callouses on my hands from those years. I still have scars on my arms reflecting my summers on the farm.

I have cut, raked, and bailed many a hay field as well.

Yet in my urban work environment if I even mention that I "chopped cotton" as a youth, I get the stink eye look from the progressives as if I just uttered a racial epithet.

I knew this forum would have a field day with this topic.

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That has to be one of the most idiotic linguistic connections made yet. Any agriculture is associated with a field and ALL agriculture has been free from association with slavery for generations.

Talk about an idiotic reach. Next they'll outlaw the word labor, or tools, or hands, or whatever.

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Hah...

Try "cockpit" changing to flight deck...

Yep. That's a real change.

Sometimes you just have to shake your head in wonder at the level of stupidity on the left.

When are they going to ban the number 47 for the Irish, that was a bad year and thinking about it must make every Irishman hurt deeply.

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"This change supports anti-racist social work practice by replacing language that would be considered anti-Black or anti-immigrant in favor of inclusive language."

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It's pretty damn racist of her to assume that only blacks and immigrants work in the fields.

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My parents picked lots of cotton. Does that mean I was born a poor, Black child?

So Field of Dreams is now Practicum of Dreams.

No.

I wonder if we will develop a more inclusive word for stupidity?

Shutdown the USC football field.

For a person to think this up, they must be incredible trolls or the most self loathing people imaginable. Either way, these thoughts come from too much time on their hands!!

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CanyonAg77 said:

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"This change supports anti-racist social work practice by replacing language that would be considered anti-Black or anti-immigrant in favor of inclusive language."

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It's pretty damn racist of her to assume that only blacks and immigrants work in the fields.

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My parents picked lots of cotton. Does that mean I was born a poor, Black child?

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If that's how you identify

Some people in Michigan agree.

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"This change supports anti-racist social work practice by replacing language that would be considered anti-Black or anti-immigrant in favor of inclusive language."

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It's pretty damn racist of her to assume that only blacks and immigrants work in the fields.

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True, my dad's side is a long line of cotton pickers in deep northeast Texas.

The Simpson's are from Springpracticum and always have been.

"Newspeak is the fictional language of Oceania, a totalitarian superstate that is the setting of the 1949 dystopian novel Ninteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell. In the novel, the Party created Newspeak to meet the ideological requirements of Ingsoc (English Socialism) in Oceania. Newspeak is a controlled language of simplified grammar and restricted vocabulary designed to limit the individual's ability to think and articulate "subversive" concepts such as personal identity, self-expression, and free will. Such concepts are criminalized as thoughtcrime since they contradict the prevailing Ingsoc orthodoxy."

Orwell was frighteningly prescient

aggiedent said:

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I wonder if we will develop a more inclusive word for stupidity?

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Wonder no more, it's DNC.

GeorgiAg said:

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My dad's coworkers gave him this mug when he left one of his jobs.

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Is that cow really out? I don't see a rainbow flag.

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"Newspeak is the fictional language of Oceania, a totalitarian superstate that is the setting of the 1949 dystopian novel Ninteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell. In the novel, the Party created Newspeak to meet the ideological requirements of Ingsoc (English Socialism) in Oceania. Newspeak is a controlled language of simplified grammar and restricted vocabulary designed to limit the individual's ability to think and articulate "subversive" concepts such as personal identity, self-expression, and free will. Such concepts are criminalized as thoughtcrime since they contradict the prevailing Ingsoc orthodoxy."

Orwell was frighteningly prescient

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Was he prescient, or did the Left just decide to use his novel as a training guide?

Let's just go ahead and get rid of math and the English language while we're at it.

Why stop there. Modern medicine? Racist. Clean water? Ditto. Freedom? White privilege.

I can do this all the live long day.

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Muktheduck said:

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"Newspeak is the fictional language of Oceania, a totalitarian superstate that is the setting of the 1949 dystopian novel Ninteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell. In the novel, the Party created Newspeak to meet the ideological requirements of Ingsoc (English Socialism) in Oceania. Newspeak is a controlled language of simplified grammar and restricted vocabulary designed to limit the individual's ability to think and articulate "subversive" concepts such as personal identity, self-expression, and free will. Such concepts are criminalized as thoughtcrime since they contradict the prevailing Ingsoc orthodoxy."

Orwell was frighteningly prescient

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Was he prescient, or did the Left just decide to use his novel as a training guide?

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This

The Right treats Orwell as a warning alarm

The Left treats Orwell as a how-to manual

You'd think a country founded in white supremacy with built in systematic racism would be overflowing with concrete examples of racist incidents. Instead, we're bombarded with fraudulent claims and the twisting of innocuous words.

would not "hand" be racists too?

"I am an old cow practitioner/From the Rio commissioner"