Human evolution has been thrown into reverse; change my mind: "York College’s social work program drops term ‘field’ — says it could cause trauma" (H/T: Ace of Spades).
The City University of New York’s York College’s Master of Social Work program has eliminated the term “field” from its curriculum, citing its potential to cause trauma for black Americans due to the word’s association with slavery.On deck for cancellation in the near future: the words "cotton", "bale", and "auction".
I would bet 99.9% of black students were never traumitized by the word "field" until CUNY insisted that they should be.
ReplyDeleteAnd that's probably a conservative estimate.
DeleteThat started long ago; at one point, there was a controversy about using the terms "master" and "slave" for hard drives in computers. The "master" drive was the primary boot disk, and the others for data and such.
ReplyDeleteI don't know how that turned out; I stopped building and maintaining my desktop computers a while back. And I ignored the matter, having better things to do, like trimming my toe nails.
God help any black person (or uber liberal white) who might venture out into the country, where there are … you know … actual fields.
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