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08-01-21, 04:07 AM #1
Just when you thought, "It can't get any worse"...Lord, help us.......
Advocates turn attention on bugs, birds, fish, and plants with racist names
Russell Contreras
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Bugs, birds, fish and plants with names linked to white supremacists may be renamed, as science confronts its own ties to systemic racism.
Why it matters: The national reckoning was inevitably going to pass this way. The sciences have long underrepresented and erected barriers of entry to people of color and there’s a concerted effort for a reset under way in academia, research and hiring.
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Driving the news: The Entomological Society of America announced this month insects known as Aphaenogaster araneoides and Lymantria dispar will no longer be called "gypsy ants" and "gypsy moths." Gypsy is a racial slur for Romani people.
- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and other state agencies recently halted the use of "Asian carp" to describe some invasive species of fish in the wake of rising anti-Asian violence, The Associated Press reports.
- Bird Names for Birds has launched a campaign to change bird names, including the Hammond’s Flycatcher. That bird was named after former U.S. Surgeon General William Alexander Hammond, who once collected the brains of killed Indigenous people.
- The American Ornithological Society’s North American Classification Committee said last year the McCown’s Longspur would change to the Thick-billed Longspur following complaints about Confederate general John Porter McCown, an amateur ornithologist whose name is on the bird.
- Conservation activists say the Erythrina caffra, commonly known as the "African Coral Tree," should see a name change since it has roots in a slur used for South Africa's Black communities.
- California's Pinus sabiniana, or the “Digger Pine,” which is a pejorative term used to reference the Paiute and other Indigenous groups, also is seeing calls for renaming.
Flashback: The reexamination comes as scientific institutions and biological diversity organizations publicly pledged their commitment to inclusion in the wake of George Floyd's death.
- Institutions and organizations also are confronting a past where science was largely defined and practiced by white men, who sometimes gave species problematic names with racial slurs.
- Science organizations say they want to make fields more welcoming for people of color. Doctoral degrees in science and engineering are still overwhelmingly conferred on white students, according to an analysis from the National Science Foundation.
- U.S. Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) introduced legislation to create a board to help rename more than 1,000 towns, lakes, streams, creeks and mountain peaks across the U.S. that are still named with racist slurs.
- "You have these names that really just represent white colonialism and the perspectives that they had when they decided these are the names," said Gabriel Foley, a group co-founder.
- Rutter and Foley said the movement to change names also is about the process where people can engage in social justice and science.
- "Some are just very, very old. Our Anglo-Saxon ancestors were talking about swans, sparrows, and ravens when William the Conqueror was a boy," Andrews wrote.
- "To preserve the richness of American bird names for future generations, today’s politically correct literalists deserve (a) brushoff."
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- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and other state agencies recently halted the use of "Asian carp" to describe some invasive species of fish in the wake of rising anti-Asian violence, The Associated Press reports.
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08-01-21, 07:50 AM #2
Billy, I have a scientific name for these types of psychocrats and that is "coksukeris ignorantansis"
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08-01-21, 08:00 AM #3
So because of George Floyd's death, all of Western civilization has to be revised or destroyed. How enlightened!
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08-01-21, 01:39 PM #4
Just wondering how much worse this will get before any kind of real action will take place...
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08-01-21, 03:01 PM #5
Well, I'm ready, I'm willing, I'm half crazy, and I'm a real American who believes in the Constitution as it was written. I embrace the idea of protecting our Country from "Enemies", both foreign and domestic. We all know who the domestic enemies are. By the way, Dave, is your description of Demos Latin for Stupid Dick Sucker......asking for a friend.......
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08-01-21, 04:54 PM #6
That is in fact the Latin, scientific term for those specific types, yes, Billy.
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08-02-21, 05:42 PM #7
Yes, let’s change the names of birds and mountains in protest of the drug addict George Floyd, makes sense.
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08-08-21, 03:35 PM #8
Let us ponder why the Native Americans are offended by the names Washington Redskins and the Cleveland Indians, but, have never said anything about our Apache Gunships or our Tomahawk Missiles.
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08-08-21, 03:53 PM #9
Most American Indians are not offended. ....that foolishness is coming from the usual sources, Billy. Polls have been done....they have no problem with names.
In fact, it is a honor to have a team named after you. But as usual, right is wrong and wrong is right, if you happen to be psychocrat
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08-11-21, 11:17 AM #10
once again, "common sense" has gone the way of the DODO bird, which will also likely be renamed because it's an offensive reference to stupid people.....
Si vis pacem, para bellum
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