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Slack.com slash DHQ. In a stunningly courageous blow against racism or possibly just

dependable, but somehow hilarious waste of time, the University of Southern California's

School of Social Work has decided to stop using the word field. A notice from the school

said, quote, we have decided to remove the term field from our curriculum because phrases

such as going into the field or field work may have connotations for descendants of slavery

and immigrant workers that are not benign. Now, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking,

oh, clavin, humanic manufacturer of maniacal maim. Sometimes, you're uproarious yet strangely

seductive satire goes too far and becomes unbelievable. By portraying leftists as subsisting

at a level of a meable-like stupidity, virtually unimaginable in an even semi-sentient creature.

But no, I swear, I'm not making this up. And I didn't make that quote up either. The

dean of the USC School of Social Work, Dr. Susanna Miba, made the announcement at a press conference

this week between drooling and walking repeatedly into the same wall before figuring out a way

to change direction. Dr. Miba said, quote, from now on, instead of using the deeply racist

word field, we will use benign expressions like that patch of grass over there. As in the

sentence, I might as well go and lay me down in that patch of grass over there because

I'm never going to get a job with a meaningless degree in social work from USC, unquote.

Another group working in the burgeoning patch of grass of language reform is Stanford University,

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