Is This Crazy? Or Am I?

Language Police “Wokerize” Another Phrase!

In January, following the lead of the University of Southern California’s School of Social Work, Michigan’s Dept. of Health and Human Services banned the use of the phrase “field worker.”

A field worker is usually defined today as someone who works outside of the office and travels to different locations. It is less frequently but still used to define a farm laborer. And it’s being banned because of “concerns” that using words like “going into the field” or “doing field work” may have racist connotations.

(I’m not making that up!)

I wonder how that’s going to work?

Let’s see. In the future…

* Speakers will no longer “field” questions from an audience, but “harvest” them.

* Baseball will be played on “locations of grass with strips of dirt.”

* Architecture and biology will no longer be “fields” of study, but just plain “subjects of study.” No, wait. That’s not right! Due to the possibility that post-colonialized people may be offended by “subjects of study,” they will be “thingies you can study.”