This reminds me of a professor I had in college who tried to test whether people were racist by asking them what color gorillas were under their fur. Anti-racists come up with crazy racist spins on things that non-racist normal people would never come up with. And then those people have to pause and try to understand the crazy racist Rorschach inkblot in their heads.
USC’s School of Social Work didn’t come up with anything new here. There has been a gradual purge of the term “field work” in academia.
The school sent out a letter announcing “we have decided to remove the term ‘field’ from our curriculum and practice and replace it with practicum. This change supports anti-racist social work practice by replacing language that could be considered anti-black or anti-immigrant in favor of inclusive language. Language can be powerful and phrases such as “going into the field” and “field work” may have connotations for descendants of slavery.”
Here’s one from Hancock College.
“Another important step in supporting students of color in the Earth Sciences is to address safety issues surrounding field work. Field work can evoke justifiable fears in students of color and present actual danger.”
Actual danger and justifiable fears.
But before USC’s School of Social Work adopts Practicum, its diversity deans may want to consider the fact that the Romans owned slaves.
We must take heart. When everything is racist, then nothing will be racist. That day will come soon.
The accusation of “racist” is a ruse to destroy western civilization and its people — westernkind. That is the telos. When everything is racist (so nothing is racist), westernkind will still exist. So the term will clarify into destructive focus when westernkind is ripe for total annihilation. Already we know that only “whites” and their “adjacents” are raaaaaaasist!
No, “whites” aren’t racist. FPMers are racist. You all just hide in your little media bubble to the point of losing touch with humanity. This is why you’re called are so surprised when every time you accidentally interact with actual humans they call you out.
That’s a very racist comment.
I and everyone else who is possessed of rational mind are so tired of the vile Dumb-o-crats’ obnoxiously Orwellian and totalitarian attempts to control our language and lexicon, according to their evil dictates.
It’s not your language.
This infantile craziness reads as unintentional satire. As per usual, no one satirizes the insane and malignant Dumb-o-crats better than they, themselves.
It’s such a brave work working to keep the Newspeak Dictionary current with the truth now known within the party. Some day when the language is ‘perfect’, we will live in that place that has no means of knowing anything – but the love of our beloved herd.
(And, yet racist will live and need the struggle…)
USC Southern Cal or USC South Carolina?
Yes, of course, because we all know that non-black people never work in fields. (See, e.g., farmers.)
Wonder if there’s now a movement to change football field to football practicum?
maybe we should ask some practicum mice what they think
Don’t laugh, it’s coming, lol. Oops, lol.
i just hate it when someone uses a $4 word
I privately did the exercise about the color of a gorilla’s skin beneath his fur, just for fun.
I thought, “Well, what part of a gorilla is not covered by fur? The face and chest.” So I looked up images of gorillas and discovered their ears and fingers could also answer that question.
I discovered dispositive proof that gorillas CANNOT be racist!
But I am a racist for noticing, for not noticing, and for using rational thinking.
Problem solved.
Aryan Alpine gorillas are a very pale pink when skinned.
Congolese gorillas, easily trapped with offerings of lightly-drugged water-melons or the seductive
lure of rhinestone-encrusted crack pipes, are a rich mahogany hue.
“But I am a racist for noticing, for not noticing, and for using rational thinking.”
No need for any of that! If your skin contains below a certain amount of melanin, you’re a racist automatically 😉 See how easy it is?
I doubt you’ve ever had an original, rational idea.
USC bans Common Sense because it hurts the feelings of pathetic little snowflakes. What’s going to become of Tommy Trojan?
the warrior or the prophylactic?
A quote from somewhere:
“Sorry, your race card has been maxed out. No further charges will be accepted.”
What about farmers, must they plow their practicums? What about “field of study?”
What about people named “Field?”
fielding in baseball?
Practicum of dreams? Doesn’t have the right rig to it.
It’s supposed to be clunky and absurd. It’s a requirement for these kinds of language changes.
They object to work.
They object to the failure to have installed a functioning utopia.
They demand to be celebrated.
Next, they’ll demand worship.
Next? They demand it now.
You live in a constant state of fear.
Talk about debasing the language by abandoning or radically changing the meaning of words, can someone please explain this illogical transposition of words that I have observed in recent web commentaries: An article will start out decrying the fact that an obviously biological man has unfairly been allowed to compete in a women’s athletic competition by disingenuously claiming to be “trans”, but in the next sentence the article will refer to that man as “she” or “her” without skipping a beat.
My money is on journalists being too wed to the AP(associated propaganda) Style Book. It’s a journalists ‘Bible.’ Mine is 37 years old, and I’m tempted to buy a new one just to compare and see how much the left has screwed up the English language since then. It used to be about clarity and brevity, now it’s all about political correctness.
One day we may have to cease using written and spoken language. All that will be left is withdrawing from the collective to the depths of caves where will hide our thoughts in wall paintings.
They better remember something called Freedom of Speech and make sure its the whole Campus be included
WTF? Fields are racist now? Does that mean farmers and ranchers are racist, too? The people who provide us with all the food we eat? I’m not Ted Nugent and I only hunt in supermarkets. Why not, I guess. If mathematics is racist,everything is.
Except black people. They’re in every TV commercial, you know. You’d think they were a super majority, or something.
And I’m pretty sure ape skin is black. I’ve never seen a gorilla with an afro though, and I’ve seen them up close. Close enough to almost shit my pants.
Yea, they are some formidable critters. Chimps don’t look it, but they’re pretty BA too.
Notice it doesn’t say what you replace it with? So you are going to work in the field, or you are doing field work, how else do you explain it? By the way, if you are doing that it doesn’t matter if you’re black or white.
The University of Spoiled Children has gone a bit far here and as usual made monumental fools of themselves. Would you send your kids to this POS woke university? Probably not.
I can’t believe that everybody missed what this is leading up to. There are two parts to that sentence, work and field. If Field is racist, it would follow that work must be racist. Therefore, no more work. Brilliant.
will cotton be next?
Even after all these years it still amazes me how utterly stupid highly educated people can be. As my PhD psychologist FIL liked to say, they’re educated idiots that have had all the common sense educated out of them.