{"id":1803144,"date":"2023-01-12T07:49:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T12:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1803144"},"modified":"2023-01-12T07:54:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T12:54:13","slug":"of-course-uscs-school-of-social-work-bans-the-word-field-because-its-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/of-course-uscs-school-of-social-work-bans-the-word-field-because-its-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Course: USC\u2019s School of Social Work Bans the Word \u201cField\u201d Because It\u2019s Racist"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fof-course-uscs-school-of-social-work-bans-the-word-field-because-its-racist%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1803144&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2023\/01\/Untitled-design-2023-01-11T141114.617.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Do you dream of being the best? <strong><em>field? <\/em><\/strong>Do you remember ever calling a job outside of your office &#8220;job&#8221;? \u201c<strong><em>field <\/em><\/strong>work?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These questions are so strangely out of left. <strong><em>field<\/em><\/strong> Want to write a Daily Wire column<\/p>\n<p>Well, if you answered yes to any of those questions, then you may unwittingly be promoting racism and bigotry \u2014 according to the University of Southern California School of Social Work.<\/p>\n<p>It seems wokeness knows no bounds \u2014 which is entirely the point of those who promote it. They are willing to coerce anyone who will listen to their plan and push them to power.<\/p>\n<p>The USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, sent out an email on January 9 informing faculty, staff, students that it has updated its speech code guidelines to ensure their safety. \u201cinclusive language and practice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpecifically, we have decided to remove the term \u2018field,\u2019 Retire from our curriculum and follow the practice to replace it \u2018practicum,&#8217;\u201d the letter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/houmanhemmati\/status\/1612635584539033603\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">explained<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What is so egregious about the word \u201cfield\u201d? Well, according to the brainiacs out on the West Coast, it is offensive to black and immigrants everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLanguage can be powerful, and phrases such as \u2018going into the field\u2019 Oder \u2018fieldwork\u2019 may have connotations for descendants of slavery and immigrant workers that are not benign,\u201d according to the letter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Another good word is being deleted by the USC School of Social Work. \u201cfield\u201d As in \u201cfield work\u201d &#038; \u201cgoing into the field.\u201d This is a USC belief. Please, stop. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4AzzrJ3tV8\">pic.twitter.com\/4AzzrJ3tV8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gail Heriot (@GailHeriot) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GailHeriot\/status\/1613043428820148224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If a word isn\u2019t \u201cbenign\u201d that would mean it is malignant. Per the letter sent around, the word \u201cfield\u201d is so malevolent that merely using it promotes \u201cwhite supremacy, anti-immigrant and anti-blackness ideologies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, the school is beginning to put its words into action by banning the term altogether.<\/p>\n<p>In doing so, of course, they are unwittingly revealing their own racism by implying that only black people and immigrants work in \u201cfields.\u201d It doesn\u2019t need to be said, but of course, every civilization on earth has had \u201cfields\u201d in one form or another and somebody who worked there.<\/p>\n<p>This would be like saying we need to ban the word \u201ctrade\u201d because of the \u201cslave trade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re thinking that this makes no sense, then you\u2019re forgetting that the point isn\u2019t to be logical for Leftists. It never is.<\/p>\n<p>The Left\u2019s goal is complete and total domination of every aspect of American life in order to create a collectivist nation.<\/p>\n<p>The department is absolutely correct: \u201cWords are powerful \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/stanfords-new-harmful-word-list-is-right-out-of-ruth-bader-ginsburgs-playbook-from-50-years-ago\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ban certain words<\/a>, then you can control thought and language. If you can dictate the way citizens in a country speak and think, then you can dominate them into submitting to whatever your goals are.<\/p>\n<p>As previously discussed, the Left has known that fact of life for quite some time. The late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader-Ginsburg was one of the foremost advocates of changing the entire U.S. code to neuter it completely of gender.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it\u2019s time that conservatives level the playing <strong><em>field<\/em><\/strong>. Put another way, let\u2019s leave it all on the <strong><em>field<\/em><\/strong> and play to win. One person, for example, who is playing for keeps is Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. DeSantis recently appointed six non-woke, conservatives to the Board of Trustees at the New College of Florida\u2014 a public liberal arts college.<\/p>\n<p>It seems the goal with such appointments is to alter the direction of the school in order to stop the diversity, equity, and inclusion nonsense in its tracks while replacing it with something that actually benefits society and the American way of life.<\/p>\n<p>Those individuals have to be confirmed by the state Senate, but it\u2019s already ruffling feathers.<\/p>\n<p>In response, one alumnus told The Daily Beast that \u201che remembers when conservative board members would push for more changes on the margins \u2014 such as better job placement for students \u2014 rather than fundamental restructuring of the school\u2019s values.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;He said that he remembers when conservative board members would push for more changes on the margins\u2014such as better job placement for students\u2014rather than fundamental restructuring of the school\u2019s values.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>New rules, pal. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@realchrisrufo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZYVh65yPLX\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZYVh65yPLX<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HHr0KVuKT5\">pic.twitter.com\/HHr0KVuKT5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tim Meads (@TimMeadsUSA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimMeadsUSA\/status\/1612898965891973121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The simple response to that is: New rules, pal.<\/p>\n<p>The old ways weren\u2019t cutting it, and it\u2019s how we ended up with nonsense such as banning the word \u201cfield\u201d while demonizing anybody who disagrees with that.<\/p>\n<p>In short, the latest attempt to bastardize the English language coming out of USC\u2019s School of Social Work should be rejected wholeheartedly.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you dream of being the best? field? Do you remember ever calling a job outside of your office &#8220;job&#8221;? \u201cfield work?\u201d These questions are so strangely out of left. field Want to write a Daily Wire column Well, if you answered yes to any of those questions, then you may unwittingly be promoting racism &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1802663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[4929,5458,4103,7196,6550,4903,3819,3924,5127,14459,9147],"class_list":["post-1803144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bans","tag-bongino","tag-course","tag-field","tag-its","tag-racist","tag-report","tag-school","tag-social","tag-uscs","tag-word"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1803144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1802663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1803144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1803144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1803144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}