The University of Southern California’s (USC) Suzanne Dworkin-Peck School of Social Work decided to replace the term “field” with “practicum”, branding the term "field" as racist and white supremacist.
Related terms including the word "field", such as “track and field,” “field of study,” and “going into the field” are now also banned, because "field".
Food for thought: Eliminating words because they might offend 0.0001% of the population is hypocritical when you also assign names 99.9998% of the population don't want to use or be called by. LatinX for example.
There were no reports of the word "field" being threatening to anyone and the staff are almost entirely white. Nobody asked for this. The guide being used, titled “The Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative,” featured “10 ‘harmful language’ sections outlined in the index: ableist, ageism, colonialism, culturally appropriative, gender-based, imprecise language, institutionalized racism, person-first, violent and additional considerations.’”
This isn't evolution, it's the opposite. Then again, the term webmaster was deprecated by Google et all, so what world is this supposed to be again?
As webmasters, do you heed such edicts so they don't affect your site, ensuring more will come, or do you ignore it to make it stop? Socal U is not the law so... when's enough enough? We should probably come up with an answer to that as adults, it's confusing to kids.
