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Maria Comninou's avatar

Lilies of the Practicum :)

Miles's avatar

If this gains traction will baseball players no longer be able to play on a field. I can hear the announcer now "Okay, everyone, we are almost ready to start as the players make their way into the area. Play ball!"

John P's avatar

Nothing surprises me anymore. The world has gone insane.

Jaime Parker's avatar

Isn’t it more demeaning to current farmers and fieldworkers to say that their profession is so abominable and undesirable that we cannot even insinuate an analogy in civilized society? I’m not very educated, but I was raised on farm and know what horseshit smells like.

Lawrence M. Krauss's avatar

Indeed, that is what I stress somewhere in the text.. though I wish I had used your line (though I wasn't raised on a farm).

Jaime Parker's avatar

Use any line with reckless abandon. Consent granted. I am so glad you were raised the way you were.

Jaime Parker's avatar

I’m not smart enough to have an opinion on anything you study. That’s why I follow you, to gain more smarts. But dang, academia doesn’t have to punch down to the plebeians growing and harvesting their non-GMO, organic vegan protein smoothie ingredients.

James OHalloran's avatar

well we can always put you to some real "field work" eh Jaime ? Oh boy that might be a sight hahaha

James OHalloran's avatar

hahaha '

Ok, I grew up on a farm here in Ontario and have actually worked "in the fields" (plural!) as did my grandparents. Yep, I have been traumatized for years and years by those smarty pantses in ivory towers... folks like this here Kraussy feller, for saying "field work." This policy goes a great way towards making amends....

This is so stupid its quite funny.

Dallas E Weaver's avatar

The WSJ covered the quotation and it gave my wife a laugh at the insanity being exposed by the Social Sciences and Humanities.

Perhaps they are overreaching and their house of DEI cards may be about to crash. As there is no "There, There" and all sound and fury about anti-meritocracy and anti-science will starting fading away as the DEI budgets get cut.

From my viewpoint, the check box group categories tell me nothing useful about an individual. All the checkbox groups have a full statistical range of human traits that are significant and relevant as individuals.

Jaime Parker's avatar

I have no idea what you are saying but I feel you know what you are taking about. Could you please dumb it down for us commoners? I truly want to learn.