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  Oh, I'm not poor. I escaped the poverty of my father's family, by ignoring his wishes and joining the military, then using the GI bill to help me get a college degree. I've worked in a decently paying job for the last 40 years, while he could not keep a job due to alcoholism, prison, being a felon, and being a delusional asshole.
  But, we weren't talking about me, per se. We were talking about the idea that a Caucasian isn't allowed to gain any sympathy for being a "Descendent of Slavery" even if we were.  It's a system of double standards that spans more than just the USC - it's become pervasive across the US, Canada, Europe, etc.  Because "white people" have not been universally poor for the last 500 years, we're the evil ones and must therefore now be punished.
context: So can I still get a Master's degree at the USC School of Social Work? >
  
  🤣🤣 >
  
  "What is the most meaningless thing we can do to combat racism?"
  "Ooh, I know." >
  
  When did we start treating adults like babies? >
  
  When the 24 hour news media needed to find stories to offend people. >
  
  yep >
  
  Did they ask a sizable amount of the descendants of slavery? A quick glance through the article, I am gonna guess they did not. Oof >
  
  Are you serious????  😂😂😂😂 >
  
  Big schools like this hire dedicated Diversity & Inclusion staff to make sure they’re ok. The new bureaucracy can never declare that their work is done, because then they would be out of their (often) six-figure jobs, and thus they fabricate ever more ridiculous things to complain about. 
  Nobody is actually offended by the phrase “field work” because, guess what, everyone has recent ancestors who worked in the fields. >
  
  "There must be hurt feelings somewhere...and we're going to find them!" >
  
  Or invent them out of whole cloth. >
  
  Someone's angling for a promotion. >
  
  I find it offensive that anyone would be offended by me saying this isn’t offensive when I myself am offended by offensive things like this but this kind of offends me by being called offensive. >
  
  Ummm what are we calling working in the field now? >
  
  My money is on Outdoor maintenance >
  
  That's definitely the more important thing and we should focus on that word./s >
  
  Bruh the caption on the first image! What is goin on at this school? University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Most fraternities at the university will be allowed to start having parties again in March 2022, if security guards are posted at stairs or hallways leading to bedrooms. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File) >
  
  Justin Fields, QB of the Chicago Bears, must also change his last name. I suggest tractsofland. >
  
  "What is the most meaningless thing we can do to combat racism?"
  "Ooh, I know." >
  
  Next: "They dropped the term 'master's degree' because of the term's connection to slavery." >
  
  Please don’t give them ideas >
  
  That's already one that's been talked about in the UK. >
  
  So are these "descendants who are offended by that term" in the room with us right now? >
  
  So can I still get a Master's degree at the USC School of Social Work? >
  
  Gotta whip yourself into shape first. >
  
  The D & I people have to do something all day to justify their 6 figure salary >
  
  University of Michigan has like 160 people in the D&I dept.... >
  
  When did we start treating adults like babies? >
  
  I mean, it is the USC, University of Spoiled Children (or Snorting Coke). >
  
  There are two sides to that coin, but one side does include entitled poses who’s parents “donated” to the school. >
  
  It is a joke, a have friends who went to USC, and they definitely aren't spoiled. But one does snort coke! >
  
  Big schools like this hire dedicated Diversity & Inclusion staff to make sure they’re ok. The new bureaucracy can never declare that their work is done, because then they would be out of their (often) six-figure jobs, and thus they fabricate ever more ridiculous things to complain about. 
  Nobody is actually offended by the phrase “field work” because, guess what, everyone has recent ancestors who worked in the fields. >
  
  This is yet another reason for the skyrocketing costs of higher ed, which has the effect of keeping it out of reach for more and more people of color. >
  
  Someone didn't learn grammar >
  
  pedantic fool  that doesn't understand the difference between (corrected) spelling and grammar. >
  
  Did anybody ask them?
  What's with the preemptive changing, its not even fear, its like "let me get a few public virtue points". >
  
  Bruh the caption on the first image! What is goin on at this school? University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Most fraternities at the university will be allowed to start having parties again in March 2022, if security guards are posted at stairs or hallways leading to bedrooms. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File) >
  
  Did they ask a sizable amount of the descendants of slavery? A quick glance through the article, I am gonna guess they did not. Oof >
  
  "There must be hurt feelings somewhere...and we're going to find them!" >
  
  Or invent them out of whole cloth. >
  
  Ummm what are we calling working in the field now? >
  
  My money is on Outdoor maintenance >
  
  ..oh so you're anti-indoors huh!(pokes finger) >
  
  “Southern” is also a racist word.  They need to change the name of the school. >
  
  I find it offensive that anyone would be offended by me saying this isn’t offensive when I myself am offended by offensive things like this but this kind of offends me by being called offensive. >
  
  Oh no, my life is over. >
  
  It's always funny to see people complaining about other people being offended by words, when they themselves are offended by someone using or not using certain words. >
  
  Organization changes what they call something
  HILARIOUS >
  
  A solution to an invented problem. >
  
  People...still...work in fields...and did so long before slavery >
  
  This is getting ridiculous. >
  
  Oh boy.
  Wait until they hear about subjects and professions being referred to by the synonym "fields". >
  
  Oh fuck right off…. >
  
  TIL I am a 'Descendant of Slavery'. And here was thinking a came from 'people'. >
  
  during my job interview with USC, an admin said she felt it was wrong that I described myself as a Southeast Asian because I am "Chinese." She felt many Asian American "abuse" the label of SEA to get more diversity points and she wondered how I would address that if confronted by a student from SEA. 
  I'm not American. I'm from Malaysia. >
  
  Are you serious????  😂😂😂😂 >
  
  That's definitely the more important thing and we should focus on that word./s >
  
  Justin Fields, QB of the Chicago Bears, must also change his last name. I suggest tractsofland. >
  
  Would that be "huge tracks of land?" >
  
  So, I don't know if this is a positive step or not. And this has no effect on me whatsoever.  But I am 50 years old. If I'm lucky to reach the national life expectancy, I have 25 years left. Can I opt out of all these language changes. Especially the stupid ones like this. I have been a good person in my life. Can I please just stick with field work without being call non-inclusive? >
  
  >Can I opt out of all these language changes.
  Yes, you can be the grandparent still using the N word. Lots of people do that. >
  
  Someone's angling for a promotion. >
  
  Everyday Universities make a huge effort to head into irrelevance. Decentralized open-source knowledge will give the power back to people. >
  
  I am a "descendent of slavery," although I'd be ridiculed if I tried to describe myself as one. Also, every person in my father's family history, at least as far as I've been able to trace, has been impoverished.  I have an uncle who's done okay, and my mother's side of the family was middle class (certainly not wealthy). 
  But, I am Caucasian, so all I get is blame for things I had nothing to do with. Our society needs to figure out how to move past things that people who have been dead for hundreds of years did to each other. >
  
  Keep in mind that USC's actions don't affect you in any way. USC is spelled differently than "society" or whoever would ridicule you, so you can tell they're different.
  I'm sorry you're poor and hang out with assholes. Seems like you could fix at least one of those things easily, but I'm not sure USC would be involved.