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Woke Leaders At USC Ban The Word ‘Field’ Because It’s Racist: They Will Use The Term ‘Practice’ When Talking About Their Work
- The University said the term may have connotations for descendants of slavery and immigrant workers.
- The measure is intended to reflect ‘anti-racist’ values, but has been criticized.
- One person argued that it is typical of the “toxic nonsense that has seeped into academia.”
The University of Southern California School of Social Work has released a letter saying it will remove the word “field” from its syllabi and practice and replace it with the word “practice.”
The move is meant to reflect ‘anti-racist’ values, but some have argued that it insults the intelligence of the people it targets.
“This change supports the practice of anti-racist social work by replacing language that could be considered anti-black or anti-immigrant in favor of inclusive language,” the letter said.
‘Language can be powerful, and phrases like “go to the fields” or “field work” can have connotations for the descendants of slavery and immigrant workers that are not benign.’
The University of Southern California School of Social Work released a letter stating that it would stop using the word “field” when referring to a person’s area of expertise, instead replacing it with the word ” practice”.
One tweet included a copy of the letter from the University of Southern California.
Houman David Hemmati, a board-certified eye doctor and PhD research scientist, tweeted: “Today, @uscsocialwork sent this letter announcing that they will no longer use the word ‘field’ (as in ‘conduct fieldwork’) because it is perceived as racist. Is this a mark of merit or empty virtue? @elonmusk @IngrahamAngle’.
A Washington Examiner Opinion article said: ‘Only an overeducated, self-righteous, arrogant left-wing academic elitist would think of something like this. It’s an outlandish statement and indicative of the intellectual rot that plagues universities across the country.’
He noted that immigrants and blacks aren’t the only ones “going to the countryside,” noting how Farmers of Asian and European descent throughout history have survived thousands of years of human civilization without caring about the use of the term.
The change in the curriculum at the University of Southern California (pictured) was said to have been due to an adherence to the radical orthodoxy of “anti-racist” methodology, but some have argued that it insults people’s intelligence to which it addresses.
The article said that USC should be forced to release the data it used to make such a change and that common sense “would dictate that very few, if any, black or immigrant people bother with the word ‘camp’.” He argued that this passing train is “indicative of the toxic nonsense that has seeped into academia and the elitist intelligentsia.”
The op-ed notes that people aren’t opposed to learning about the racial challenges in the nation’s past, but they don’t want to be indoctrinated in this way. The article argues that it also ‘advances the narrative of perpetual victimization’.
In response to the post, one Twitter user said: “For someone who spent 7+ years at USC with 2 graduate degrees from this institution, I am so embarrassed by what is happening there.” I wonder how much of my money they spent coming up with this incredibly useful change.
Another commented: ‘Wow, I went to USC and never thought I was particularly awake. Of course, that was 10 years ago now… and I didn’t study social work.’
A third tweeted: ‘Are they still going to have baseball and soccer fields?’
Pictured: University of Southern California School of Social Work
Last year, the University of Washington published TI’s inclusive language guide. Their goal was to remove “words that reflect racial or other discriminatory bias,” covering the entire spectrum of awakening.
‘Mantra’ was one of the prominent problem words, as many people in the Buddhist and Hindu community consider this term to be very spiritual and religious.
The phrase ‘can’t be done’ was also included, as it is apparently an imitation of pidgin Chinese English, dating from the mid-19th to early 20th centuries, an era when Western attitudes towards the Chinese were markedly racist. .
Stanford University published a similar index of ‘harmful language’ last year. One of the words considered harmful was ‘guru’, as the term is a sign of respect in the Buddhist and Hindu traditions. ‘Brave’ also made the list because the University felt it perpetuated the stereotype of the ‘noble and brave savage’.