Field? That's racist...

[Zatoichi.uK]

The only sort of people that should be having a problem with these sorts of changes are racists.

Otherwise it has no impact on your life.

Agree with me or you're racist.

Well that does seem to be your MO.

 

[LabR@t]

The only sort of people that should be having a problem with these sorts of changes are racists.

Otherwise it has no impact on your life.

It's an affront to common sense, why should some idiotic group decide what words can be used and what cannot.

Next they will be telling what to wear and who to pray too.

Those who try to force this on to people are bigots.

 

[Hagar]

Well thats dealt with field slaves. How about house slaves anybody. Anybody?

 

[Dis86]

Well thats dealt with field slaves. How about house slaves anybody. Anybody?

No housework!

 

[Jono8]

I remember people making these sort of claims about all sorts of woke/SJW stuff 5 years ago... the view that it's all just some fringe online stuff that won't affect anyone in the real world.

It's part of a wider trend though and 5 years on look at what has happened in companies/workplaces across the US, UK etc. it's not been confined to some loons in universities and online.

Language changes. Always has, and always will.

Good luck trying to freeze in time, the words and phrases you like to use.

 

[Jono8]

It's an affront to common sense, why should some idiotic group decide what words can be used and what cannot.

Next they will be telling what to wear and who to pray too.

Those who try to force this on to people are bigots.

No one is stopping you using the word 'field' or the phrase 'field worker'.

They have not decided what you cannot say. They have decided, that they don't want to say it, and asked that people in their organisation do not use it.

Which is their right.

 

[Bluecube]

The word “Jono8” offends me and has racist connotations. Stop using it now

 

[Terminal_Boy]

It’s the ancient Egyptians we should all be upset at as they pioneered both fields and the forceful deployment of sub-Saharan Africans into them.

My pale pink ancestors were running around SE England at the time, painted blue and only enslaving other pale pink people.

 

[dowie]

Language changes. Always has, and always will.

Good luck trying to freeze in time, the words and phrases you like to use.

Where have I tried to do that? My comment was on the wider trends and the previous similar claims that have been made.

 

[413x]

It's the same as the use of the phrase "blackboard". It's called a blackboard because it's a board that is coloured black. There was a time where some people were getting equally as upset about that insisting we should call them chalkboards to avoid the racist links to the word. It's the same crowd that want to ban the use of the word "christmas" and instead call it the "holidays" so as to avoid offending non Christians.

It's all absolutely nonsense, have plenty of friends and colleagues across numerous different nationalities and faiths, none of these people find it offensive when you use the word Christmas, or use the word field. If you start saying a black person must know how to farm a cotton field because they're black - now we're being racist. But the word isn't racist in itself. I'm aware the right likes to use this stuff as evidence that anybody who doesn't agree with them is the "radical left" so i'm not going there. Just talking about common sense here.

Show me the massive petition from African American's wanting the use of the word field banned ... go on i'll wait.

Maybe we could change black board to be

"white stick reciever"..