Posted on 07/21/2021 4:31:41 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The drive is on for renaming the more “harmful colonial” names of more than 100 eponymous bird species in North America linked to an individual, a white American or European naturalist.
Birds have eponymous names that celebrate the explorers, bird watchers, or colonialists who discovered them, some of whom who have been connected with slaveowners or white supremacists. Calls have begun for the removal of bird names that celebrate those accused of colonialism.
Woke is for the birds. A group “Bird Name for Birds,” in 2020 launched a campaign to change names of birds named after people. It urged the American Ornithological Society to acknowledge the issue of eponymous and honorific common names of birds and to outline a plan to change harmful common names. The assumption is that the names are problematic because they perpetuate colonialism and racism. Current events in 2020 and the BLM movement led to emphasis on reevaluating names.
The drive is on for renaming the more “harmful colonial” names of more than 100 eponymous bird species in North America linked to an individual, a white American or European naturalist. The woke campaigners argue, using the image of the toppling of monuments in recent years, that eponymous names of past historical figures accused of being tied to slavery or white supremacy are essentially “verbal statues” and must fall, since they do not reflect the inclusive community, rather than colonial links.
There has long been concern about the use of eponyms in many disciples and aspects of social life. A few examples may suffice. Names associated with Nazi policies or scientific experimentation, such as Reiter’s syndrome or Wegener disease, have been eliminated.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
It is amazing that these wokeists get so twisted out of shape about things in past history while the horrors of communism, which they seem aligned with, seems to elude them.
Stalinists lie. Always
Gonna need whole new books
#VerbalStatues
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