Duh academic wokiez have banned the word "field." Seriously. Can ya guess why?

The wokiez are always screwing around with language, to keep rational adults on the back foot.  Example: banning the terms "mother" and "father."  Yes, the crazy bastards really did that, instead DEMANDING that the rest of us use the terms "sperm-donor" and "egg-donor."

So in the latest move to DEMAND that good liberals not use some innocuous term--on fear of losing their cushy jobs-- Smith College has joined USC in demanding that the term "field" be banned.

Seriously.  The two universities DEMAND that academics no longer use that term.  So the obvious question is, what is it that the wokiez find offensive about the term?  

The reason is that some snowflakes say it's raaaaacist.  AH!  And now it's so obvious, eh?  I mean, how could we have missed the offensive, raaacist inferences in the term "field," right?

Wait...y'say you don't see any raacist inferences in "field"?  Yeah, I didn't either.  Well...remember that famous poem you studied in highschool about the killing fields of WW1, "In Flanders' Field"?  It turns out that no blacks were in the German army then, which is--need I say it?  Raaaacist.

No, wait...it was that 1989 movie with Kevin Costner, "Field of Dreams."  Of the 57 actors who appeared in that award-winning film, only one was black.  This is obviously raacist, so using the term "field" is a hidden signal of raacism used by white supremacists, like that cunning "okay" sign.

Yeh, dat's it.

Wait...my research team has just phoned from Smith, and they say the wokiez tell them the reason they banned "field" is... "the term reminds some of the field work once done by slaves."

Being raised in a farm town with lots of white farmers who were in their fields from dawn until dusk, I was really skeptical.  Why would the term be any more racial to blacks than to white farmers who've been "in the field" for generations?

My researchers asked the wokiez at Smith to explain, but no one had an answer.

In any case: turns out students majoring in social work are required to go out in the real world to get some hands-on experience.  That was handled by an office in the Social Work department called the “Office of Field Education.”  But because of the obvious raaacism of "field," from now on that office will be now referred to as the “Office of Practicum.”  

A spokes-pyrsyn for Smith explained that ”This is all part of our plan for 'advancing inclusion, diversity and equity,' and that terms like “field work” are now considered triggering and microaggressive."

The spokes-pyrsyn gushed that replacing the word “field” was one more triumph in the fight for “dismantling oppressive and discriminating systems.”

Ah, now it all makes sense, eh?

An equally woke spokes-pyrsyn at USC added, “Phrases like ‘field work,’ or ‘going into the field’ may have connotations for descendants of slavery and immigrant workers that are not benign, so this change supports anti-racist social work practice by replacing language that could be considered anti-Black or anti-immigrant."

The use of "anti-immigrant shows that the wokie demand isn't due to slavery, since immigrant ag-workers aren't slaves.  So apparently the complaint is that "field work" is hard damn work.  No argument there.

But apparently hard and oppressive only for blacks and immigrants.  At least we don't have any record of whites complaining that their fathers or grandfathers had to work all day in the fields to keep the farm alive.  

That should tell you something.  But you'd be well-advised not say anything, cuz speaking up will get you fired.

Academics at both Smith and USC piously claim that they're NOT claiming the word "field" itself is racist.  Oh no, not at all, citizen!  Instead they simply claim that using the word "may remind some that 160 years ago slaves worked in some fields."

UPDATE:  Sources in DC report that wokiez in the Civil Rights Division of  Merrick Garland's "Department of Justice" have already drafted rules guidance ordering that "Wrigley Field," "Soldier Field" and all other sports stadia delete the offensive second word from their names.  

The DOJ suggests "Wrigley Park" or "Soldier Football Place" might be acceptable.  They say they'll allow the terms "left field," "outfield," "fielder's choice" and so on to still be used for now, but they say this may change with further study.

Similarly, newspapers and TV networks will be fined if they use the phrase "level playing field."  The suggested substitute is "level playing surface" instead.  The DOJ won't start fining ordinary Americans for two years, when everyone is expected to know about the new decree guidance.

The DOJ will graciously allow airports like Dallas's Love Field a full year to change to "Love Airport."

The OCR division is still working on whether to apply the same rules to the physics terms "magnetic field," "electrical field" and "gravitational field," since those aren't literally areas of earth. 

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