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“Anti-racist” language change at USC causes confusion among students, community
Daily Trojan ^ | January 11, 2023 | Tomoki Chen

Posted on 01/12/2023 6:58:32 AM PST by Ahithophel

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No more fielding questions about the USC football practicum, apparently.
1 posted on 01/12/2023 6:58:32 AM PST by Ahithophel
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Mathematics courses will have to be changed from "Finite Fields" to 'Finite Practicums"

2 posted on 01/12/2023 7:02:08 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: Ahithophel

All language is racist, don’t you know?

Only grunts and finger-pointing should be allowed.


3 posted on 01/12/2023 7:03:37 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: Ahithophel

Shouldn’t that be:

No more fielding questions about the USC football practice practicum?

“You hit the baseball into the empty practicum, you go get it”..

It just gets ridiculouser and ridiculouser..


4 posted on 01/12/2023 7:04:18 AM PST by GeorgiaDawg32 (q11)
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To: Ahithophel
Lordy, these people have warped thinking. Field work is racist?

Everyone living in a city should be forced to work on a farm or ranch, right smack in the middle of a red state. They might just learn something real for a change.

5 posted on 01/12/2023 7:04:47 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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Extracting roots of polynomials may sound too much like hoeing weeds in the master’s fields for some people. That’s gotta go now!


6 posted on 01/12/2023 7:05:46 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Ahithophel

Tell the language police to get lost.


7 posted on 01/12/2023 7:07:50 AM PST by G Larry ( "woke" means 'stupid enough to fall for the promotion of every human weakness into a virtue')
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When somebody's job is to clean up racism in one of the world's least racist societies, and one wants to do something to show some kind of productivity...you get stupid things like this one.
8 posted on 01/12/2023 7:09:12 AM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: Ahithophel

Yes, make sure all those former slaves in the state of California don’t get their feelings hurt.


9 posted on 01/12/2023 7:10:57 AM PST by Bon of Babble (Rigged Elections have Consequences)
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To: Ahithophel

They need to scrub the word “work” from whatever they are doing.


10 posted on 01/12/2023 7:11:19 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Los Angeles” and “California” are the language of white colonialists.

The university needs to permanently shut down to prove it is not racist.


11 posted on 01/12/2023 7:12:45 AM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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article:
Maya Borenstein, a graduate student studying social work. “The title of my courses doesn't really affect me. I'm all for changing language if it's what they think is correct.”

She will do whatever her masters tell her.

And how come when these woke follies crop up there is always a Borenstein involved but never a MacGregor?

12 posted on 01/12/2023 7:12:48 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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[[hrases such as ‘going into the field’ or ‘field work’ may have connotations for descendants of enslaved people and immigrant workers that are not benign,”]]

Well too bad! Grow a freaking spine and get on with life!


13 posted on 01/12/2023 7:13:05 AM PST by Bob434 (question)
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To: Ahithophel

There is such a thing as too much education. Just saying.


14 posted on 01/12/2023 7:15:43 AM PST by Chuckster (Friends don't let friends eat farmed fish)
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Th3 constitution was created to protect people’s rights, NOT their delicate precious hypersensitive feelings about phrases that have nothing to do with racism! Grow up liberals


15 posted on 01/12/2023 7:15:54 AM PST by Bob434 (question)
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“Anti-racist” language change at USC causes confusion among students, community

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It’s confusing to all humanity with an IQ of 90 or higher. The buffoonery that passes as academia today is astounding. People can try and write it off as “fringe”, but it’s obviously driving policy changes at major universities. The people who support this should be treated like conservatives are routinely treated...doxxed and ridiculed mercilessly.


16 posted on 01/12/2023 7:16:11 AM PST by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: Ahithophel

Someone should tell USC that the word “practicum” is from Latin, the language used by the Romans. And as we all know, the Romans held slaves. They also invaded neighboring countries. Many of those countries were inhabited by people of color.

Shame on USC! Are they not aware of the evil racist past of the word “practicum”? Or do they simply not care?

(See? It’s easy finding racism where there is none.)


17 posted on 01/12/2023 7:16:23 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: 17th Miss Regt
Yes, too much like chopping cotton.

Anyway, I thought the colored folks had a copyright on the word roots anyway. Gonna have to come up with a new word.

18 posted on 01/12/2023 7:16:25 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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Besides football, USC's athletic program features baseball, basketball, tennis, golf and track and field practicum.
19 posted on 01/12/2023 7:16:31 AM PST by Rufii
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

There was zero people to offend in my DiffEq class…

Besides, they’ve already declared Mathematics to be racist in general.


20 posted on 01/12/2023 7:17:31 AM PST by EEGator
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