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Wokeism Really Has Lost It Now - A Campaign Against Bird And Insects Names!!!
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Literally how daft is this?
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Of all the havoc gypsy moths wreak – ransacking entire forests by chewing tree leaves bare – the insects are now at the centre of a battle bigger still: nature’s culture war.
The species is now only to be referred to as Lymantria dispar after a review from the Entomological Society of America (ESA), which concluded that some insect names “may be inappropriate or offensive” – in this case, towards the Romani people. The gypsy ant has met the same fate, while the Oriental rat flea, Asian needle ant and the West Indian cane weevil are all subject to revision from the ESA’s “Better Common Names Project”, which is asking for the public’s help in identifying potentially offensive terms.
This battle is not just applied to mites, but birds – and the birdwatching community – too. The once peaceful pursuit has all of a sudden had the binoculars trained inwards as hundreds of names of species of birds, which have persisted for centuries, may be scrubbed out of history due to their colonial links.
The debate was prompted by a petition in the US last year calling for the removal of eponymous bird names that celebrate the colonialists who discovered them. Two birds have already had their names changed: the McCown’s longspur (named after John McCown, a Confederate general in the civil war) was retitled the thick-billed longspur; another species of wildfowl previously known as the oldsquaw has since been renamed the long-tailed duck, as the previous moniker was deemed offensive to indigenous groups.
The group insisting on the changes, Bird Names for Birders, has received thousands of signatures on a petition calling for more “harmful colonial” names of species to be removed. There is even talk of renaming the 116-year-old National Audubon Society (the US equivalent of the RSPB) due to the links to slavery of its founder, John James Audubon.
Campaigners argue that eponymous common names are “essentially verbal statues” – and therefore must fall.
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For those of you without a subscription the article reads,
Of all the havoc gypsy moths wreak – ransacking entire forests by chewing tree leaves bare – the insects are now at the centre of a battle bigger still: nature’s culture war.
The species is now only to be referred to as Lymantria dispar after a review from the Entomological Society of America (ESA), which concluded that some insect names “may be inappropriate or offensive” – in this case, towards the Romani people. The gypsy ant has met the same fate, while the Oriental rat flea, Asian needle ant and the West Indian cane weevil are all subject to revision from the ESA’s “Better Common Names Project”, which is asking for the public’s help in identifying potentially offensive terms.
This battle is not just applied to mites, but birds – and the birdwatching community – too. The once peaceful pursuit has all of a sudden had the binoculars trained inwards as hundreds of names of species of birds, which have persisted for centuries, may be scrubbed out of history due to their colonial links.
The debate was prompted by a petition in the US last year calling for the removal of eponymous bird names that celebrate the colonialists who discovered them. Two birds have already had their names changed: the McCown’s longspur (named after John McCown, a Confederate general in the civil war) was retitled the thick-billed longspur; another species of wildfowl previously known as the oldsquaw has since been renamed the long-tailed duck, as the previous moniker was deemed offensive to indigenous groups.
The group insisting on the changes, Bird Names for Birders, has received thousands of signatures on a petition calling for more “harmful colonial” names of species to be removed. There is even talk of renaming the 116-year-old National Audubon Society (the US equivalent of the RSPB) due to the links to slavery of its founder, John James Audubon.
Campaigners argue that eponymous common names are “essentially verbal statues” – and therefore must fall.
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It's fabulous isn't it?
There really is no limit to the pointlessness of the way some people choose to spend their time and energy.
It's words like 'may be offensive' or 'potentially offensive' that always leap out of the accounts of this nonsense.
I have decided that I am not going to eat or drink anything again.
Why?
Because I 'may' 'potentially' choke on something I put in my mouth, so to avoid that, I am simply not going to take the risk.
Of course I will die, but at least I know I have avoided 'potential' accidental death.
That sounds logical - doesn't it?????
There really is no limit to the pointlessness of the way some people choose to spend their time and energy.
It's words like 'may be offensive' or 'potentially offensive' that always leap out of the accounts of this nonsense.
I have decided that I am not going to eat or drink anything again.
Why?
Because I 'may' 'potentially' choke on something I put in my mouth, so to avoid that, I am simply not going to take the risk.
Of course I will die, but at least I know I have avoided 'potential' accidental death.
That sounds logical - doesn't it?????
DTC - // Totally logical - sorry to lose you from here - at some point in the near future. //
Thanks - appreciate your kind thought.
Before I forget, I must leave a note to the undertaker, and apologise for the hard work they will have to undertake (!) to remove that deeply-ingrained smile of utterly unjustified self-satisfaction that will be etched across my face as I peg it.
Thanks - appreciate your kind thought.
Before I forget, I must leave a note to the undertaker, and apologise for the hard work they will have to undertake (!) to remove that deeply-ingrained smile of utterly unjustified self-satisfaction that will be etched across my face as I peg it.
Atheist - //
Look on the bright side. Without 'wokeism' you would have less to be indignant about, and your life would be emptier of purpose.
Did you have an interest in bird names before you read this article? //
I confess I didn't - and there's me missing an entire mine of outrage that I could get het up about for weeks.
We have to be grateful to the people who unearth these things for us, otherwise we'd just never know.
Oh, hang on ....
Look on the bright side. Without 'wokeism' you would have less to be indignant about, and your life would be emptier of purpose.
Did you have an interest in bird names before you read this article? //
I confess I didn't - and there's me missing an entire mine of outrage that I could get het up about for weeks.
We have to be grateful to the people who unearth these things for us, otherwise we'd just never know.
Oh, hang on ....
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