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Speaker 1: In an hour, we'll talk about that fiasco with the

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Speaker 1: so please conserve. I just had to throw that in

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Speaker 1: out perfectly. For me to stop talking about this, you

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Speaker 1: all those governors and all those legislators we had, especially

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Speaker 1: So we don't have enough water, and that's not the

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Speaker 1: Alex Stone is all over. Of course, the big story

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Speaker 1: how business worked. The School of Social Work now they're they're,

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Speaker 1: USC's social work school is called the Susanne Warak hyphen

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Speaker 1: Nobody can go out and do field work no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: Or you can't say someone's in the field today. Nope, nope, nope,

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Speaker 1: didn't get this when I first read it. Oh, I did,

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Speaker 1: kind of race issue because there is no connection. Well,

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Speaker 1: here's what the letter says. Language can be powerful and

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Speaker 1: phrases such as going into the field or field work

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Speaker 1: didn't think of that. USC alumni. Are you embarrassed at

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Speaker 1: all by this? USC's a laughing stock. Now the word

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Speaker 1: field has been banned as if people are going to

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Speaker 1: stop using that word? You think there was like one

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Speaker 1: person who noticed this and created an uproar in the school.

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Speaker 1: Why are we using that word? It's offensive? Who brought

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Speaker 1: that up at a beating? Who wrote that memo? And

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Speaker 1: who's listening to it? If you're a USC dotor, don't

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Speaker 1: you feel embarrassed? This is what they do with your money.

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Speaker 1: This is part of their effort to acknowledge inclusion and

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Speaker 1: reject white supremacy, anti immigrant, to anti blackness and ideology.

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Speaker 1: That's right, because if you say today, hey, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: go work in the field, you're you're you're supporting white

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Speaker 1: supremacist beliefs. This is so crazy. This is what I mean.

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Speaker 1: If you call a ballplayer an outfielder, Oh that's right.

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Speaker 1: Can you, hey, when you when you're out dating, can

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Speaker 1: you play the field? Ah? That would be? Can can

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Speaker 1: field day? That's right. I all right, One Twitter users said,

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Speaker 1: for someone who spent more than seven years at USC

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Speaker 1: with two graduate degrees from this institution, I'm embarrassed at

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Speaker 1: what's happening here. Yeah, it's right. No more left fielders,

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Speaker 1: right fielders to Shana fielders. Now from the opposite side

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Speaker 1: of the universe, Arkansas has a new governor. You know

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Speaker 1: who it is, Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Remember her? Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: called her the Wall when she was the Trump spokeshole. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's right, the Trump Press secretary. Within hours of taking office,

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Speaker 1: she issued an executive order banning the term Latin X

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Speaker 1: from official youth in the stake one of John spec

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Speaker 1: I don't even know. I keep thinking about Latins. I

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Speaker 1: guess it could be Latin if you if you put

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Speaker 1: the syllable yeah after la. They did a Paul ninety

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Speaker 1: seven percent of Hispanics rejected the word. They were insulted.

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Speaker 1: you know why it was Latin X? Do you know

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Speaker 1: what the X was supposed to be something gender neutral.

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Speaker 1: Well more than that. It was supposed to include food,

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Speaker 1: make it gender neutral. In other words, nobody's Hispanic or

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Speaker 1: Hispanics say, I don't know, I'm a guy, I'm a woman.

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Speaker 1: I want to be We're proud of our our heritage

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Speaker 1: That's our language. You can't change our language. What are

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Speaker 1: these because mostly it's mostly white people. What are these

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Speaker 1: There is no X they pull from Pew research found

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Speaker 1: that three percent of the Hispanic population uses the term.

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Speaker 1: And they're probably all in media. Yeah, it's all the

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Speaker 1: La Times writers. Yeah they're they're they're Latino writers. All

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Speaker 1: this stuff is being pushed by freaks, fringe people. There

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Speaker 1: is no there's no grassroots support, widespread support for this.

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Speaker 1: Nobody I know talks this way. Nobody. Everybody brings the

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Speaker 1: stuff up because they see it in the news. And

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Speaker 1: they laugh at it. Woke people are laughed and mocked

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Speaker 1: all day, every day in everybody's private home. But it's

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Speaker 1: celebrated on media sites and on television. It's celebrated. But

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Speaker 1: in the real world and I guess in you know, universities,

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Speaker 1: in the faculty lounges, all right, when we come back,

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Speaker 1: Alex Stone will be our guests to report on the

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Speaker 1: big meltdown of the FAA computer systems very early this morning,

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