Posted on 02/12/2021 11:51:17 AM PST by SJackson
Darwins finches were named after a Racist.
Why not just call them birds? And the guys working this worthless project, birdbrains?
“ change a bird’s name because it was racially offensive.”
That is ridiculous. There is nothing racially offensive about it. The offensive part is the snowflakery.
Great idea but can we keep the Apple Rotten to the Core memes?
Obviously all scientific names must go next. They use Latin, the racist language of white oppressors and Carl Linnaeus was white.
Fascinating story from the woman living in New York. You know New York, the city named after the British monarch who headed the royal African company that ran the slave trade?
Another walk idiot snowflake.
Would Swallows be included in this name changing policy? What if they are unladen? Does this apply to African Species or just European?
OK, let’s just stick with whatever the native americans called them — “birds.”
Well, maybe their taxonomy was more detailed than that. Maybe they said “Big bird” and “little bird.” Maybe even “big red bird” and “little black bird.”
We can get down to maybe 10 or 20 generic names and be done with it. Once we are done with that, universities can fire all their ornithologists and use the savings to endow more chairs in the “Department of Woke Studies.”
One downside is retirees would have to find a new hobby. Maybe they could join the legions of wokesters and every morning wake up wondering “What can I be offended by today?” They can take adult education classes in wokesterism and write papers on “Things I’m Offended By.” I can’t think of a more rewarding hobby in retirement.
More attempts to completely remove whites from American culture. And no one is doing anything to counter it. From math being racist to birds named after white folk. We are being erased from our own country. Mostly by I’m ashamed to be white progressives. What’s next and when do we say enough? We’ve been ignoring it and laughing at these people for a generation. They aren’t ignoring us and they aren’t laughing. This is serious to them and they are winning.
I’m not a birder but I can attest to this madness.
I like looking at pics of pretty or unusual birds, so I’ve looked at the Audubon magazine and tried to follow them on the Twit, but it’s not at all about birds anymore, it’s about, “How can we use birds to display our total BLM woke-ism?” And the CLIMATE CRISIS of course!!
They discovered Audubon himself was a slave owner and so when I asked on Twitter whether the Audubon Society should cancel itself, they blocked me. Bwahahaha.
Would feminists find that name offensive? I’m just saying.
[[But Rutter and Foley say]]
Weren’t there some fellas who were racists or colonists named rutter and foley way back when? Should we demand that these fellas now change their names?
Should a Barn Swallow be called a Castle Chew just in case someone has a thing against barns?
See my post 17, we’re thinking the same.
Inconceivable. Asians don't have rumps.
But, from Wiki: McCown was relieved of his command as the commanding general of the Army and was tried and found guilty of disobedience of orders on March 16, and sentenced to suspension from duty for a period of six months.[1] McCown declared the Confederacy was nothing more than "a damned stinking cotton oligarchy... gotten up for the benefit of Isham G. Harris and Jefferson Davis and their damned corrupt cliques.""
Hard to see how naming a bird for a guy nobody heard of who criticized Jeff Davis after being cashiered by the Confederate Army would offend anyone. Cancel Culture running amok again.
Cancel the whole use of Latin in naming species too. I hear slavery was a big thing with the Romans
We must remove all bird, animal, fish, insect names because whitey named them and get rid of the Latin designations because Romans were slave owners.
“Mom, what’s that thing there called that keeps making that funny humming noise when I pet it?”
“Ask you dad; it knows about those things.”
How insensitive of him! I feel micro-aggressed!
Regards,
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