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Language Police: USC Removes ‘Field’ from ‘Field Work’ Because It May Be ‘Anti-Black or Anti-Immigrant
Breitbart ^ | 01/11/2023 | ALANA MASTRANGELO

Posted on 01/11/2023 9:15:29 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

USC’s School of Social Work is removing the word “field” from its curriculum and practice, arguing that it “could be considered anti-black or anti-immigrant” to say someone is “going into the field” or conducting “field work.” The university explains, “our goal is not just to change language but to honor and acknowledge inclusion and reject white supremacy, anti-immigrant and anti-blackness ideologies.”

“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,” a letter from the Practicum Education Department read.

The letter was shared by Houman David Hemmati, a board-certified MD Ophthalmologist and Ph.D. research scientist, who said the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work “will no longer use the word ‘field’ (as in ‘conducting field work’) because it’s perceived as racist.”

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To: ChicagoConservative27
article "as in ‘conducting field work’"

Might as well remove the word work while they're at it. That's a "White thang".

41 posted on 01/11/2023 10:02:33 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Practicum Trips?


42 posted on 01/11/2023 10:03:23 AM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It all makes perfect sense when you learn they all have single-cell brains.


43 posted on 01/11/2023 10:07:57 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: All

I really need to go out and mow the weeds out in my practicum.


44 posted on 01/11/2023 10:09:11 AM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: PGR88
USC needs to remove “learning” from their description of “higher learning”

"Higher" is offensive to short people. It implies that only tall people can learn.

45 posted on 01/11/2023 10:11:08 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I guess there are no bounds on stupidity.


46 posted on 01/11/2023 10:16:37 AM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: scrabblehack

How is the word field derived from the Latin word ager? The word agriculture, yes, but I don’t see how field comes from ager.

BTW -
“ The origin of the term ‘field day’ comes from the military and refers to maneuvers that took place in a field, but by the 1800s, the phrase was used to refer to any event that happened in a field, ranging from a hunt to a dance to a picnic to a scientific expedition.”


47 posted on 01/11/2023 10:16:48 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: ChicagoConservative27

watching that last USC football game they definitly need more practicum before going on the field.

Side bar. The legendary USC coach John MacKay was asked after a game: What do you think of your offenses execution

MacKay: I think it’s a good idea.


48 posted on 01/11/2023 10:18:24 AM PST by coalminersson
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Have they got to “grunt work” yet?


49 posted on 01/11/2023 10:19:36 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: ladyjane

practicum is Latin
field is Germanic


50 posted on 01/11/2023 10:48:23 AM PST by scrabblehack
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Practicum

Has 3 syllables.

Supremacist language at its best.


51 posted on 01/11/2023 10:52:29 AM PST by Scrambler Bob
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To: ClearCase_guy

Field.

A multi-use word.

I field her up.


52 posted on 01/11/2023 10:53:14 AM PST by Scrambler Bob
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Sure glad I retired in 1986...
Physicists will soon not be able to state that they are working in that, apparently racist, field-theory-related aspect of fundamental physics...


53 posted on 01/11/2023 11:04:08 AM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Bears football team are likely to be relocating to Arlington. Otherwise, Lightfoot would have a big decision to make about Soldiers Field.


54 posted on 01/11/2023 11:06:44 AM PST by ConservativeStatement ("Do you believe in Miracles? Yes.")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I wonder how many “underserved educationally” brown or black people have a familiarity with a Latin word like “practicum”


55 posted on 01/11/2023 1:35:16 PM PST by wildbill (The older I get, the less the term 'life in prison" scares me)
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To: scrabblehack

So how did the word field come from Latin if it’s really from the German word.

I’m not trying to be difficult, I am interested in how the word field came from the word ager.


56 posted on 01/11/2023 5:23:41 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: ChicagoConservative27

People choose to go to USC over UCLA because it is easier to spell.


57 posted on 01/11/2023 5:38:32 PM PST by MrChips ("To wisdom belongs the apprehension of eternal things." - St. Augustine )
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To: ladyjane

It doesn’t.
Practicum is the $5 Latin word.
Field is the 50 cent Germanic word.


58 posted on 01/12/2023 1:21:49 AM PST by scrabblehack
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To: EEGator

I have my estimates and invoices divided into field work and office work.

I guess it will be simple enough to have WORD replace “field” with “practicum”.

Of course it will take a couple of paragraphs to explain it.

I suppose that “office work” is racist as well? Too white?? (White collar...)


59 posted on 01/12/2023 1:32:18 AM PST by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: monkeyshine

*** How about “community work” ***

Too much like community service which implies a run-in with the law, which is racist.


60 posted on 01/12/2023 1:34:45 AM PST by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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