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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.
"We know that changing bird names is not going to fix racism as much as I wish it would. But we're working on removing this one brick, that is part of this huge thing we need to deal with," Jordan Rutter, a co-founder of Bird Names for Birds, told Axios.
Advocates turn attention on bugs, birds, fish, and plants with racist names
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...www.yahoo.com
Is this being socially sensitive or a little absurd?
Being "woke" to me is beginning to become the author of confusion and self-congratulatory, political correctness, not anything meaningfully constructive. If I thought changing the names of bugs, birds, fish, plants, sports teams, etc would really accomplish anything, I'd support it. But you can't alter or erase past mistakes by whitewashing the present.
Current and active acts of prejudice and racism should be addressed but we need reminders of our past in order not to repeat those mistakes. US history is a mixture of a rich and diverse culture where some pejorative names were used, and historical figures committed atrocious offenses and were less than enlightened. Let the past be the past and focus our energies on fixing today's real problems, like police using excessive force, immigration, voting, infrastructure, pandemic measures, etc.
Fine, you want a well thought-out response, here you go:What a well thought out response.
Filling a pothole doesn't end car crash fatalities but you should still do it.
Nobody is arguing this wild ass garbage you're complaining about. Nobody thinks this ends racism. Nobody thinks this is some grand accomplishment. There's no reason not to do it. "But police brutality still exists!" So what? What the **** do you want the American Ornithological Society to do about police brutality?
There are children starving in Africa, why are you worried about immigration? Stop all efforts towards border security, bigger problems in the universe exist, right? Or, is it just maybe possible that a society of three hundred million people can work on more than one issue at a time?
Your weird and disjointed answer and accusatory remarks show how stupid renaming is. You want us to pop pimples while the patient needs surgery. Fix the bigger problems, then you'll know how to address the little issues. Or are priorities too difficult a concept to grasp?
What it does is illustrate how stupid your "priorities" remark is.
Nothing stops us from fixing the bigger problems and the smaller problems at the same time. Renaming a bird doesn't stop us from dealing with police reform. Actually, it's people like you who are stopping us from that...
And what does renaming a bird accomplish?
People stop calling the bird the old name.
Which was negatively affecting...?
We should rename the Dung Beetle after the Cancel Cultists.
Can't something be a good idea on its own merits? Do you want to use a racial slur when you talk about the bird or do you want to use a normal ass word?
There's no reason to compare renaming a bird to ending world hunger. These are not ideas coming from the same pool of resources. Renaming the bird doesn't stop you from ending world hunger. Pretending that the ****ing bird is an obstacle to ending police brutality is dishonest, you're harping on this because you don't want to end police brutality
Pretending that the ****ing bird is an obstacle to ending racism is a joke,
Even if you call it a dog, it's still a birdPeople stop calling the bird the old name.
Even if you call it a dog, it's still a bird
"Bear of Color"What about the black bear? Surely we mean African American bear?
You will never change all names deemed offensive to someone. Even if you do those easily offended will just find new names to be offended by.Filling a pothole doesn't end car crash fatalities but you should still do it.
Nobody is arguing this wild ass garbage you're complaining about. Nobody thinks this ends racism. Nobody thinks this is some grand accomplishment. There's no reason not to do it. "But police brutality still exists!" So what? What the **** do you want the American Ornithological Society to do about police brutality?
There are children starving in Africa, why are you worried about immigration? Stop all efforts towards border security, bigger problems in the universe exist, right? Or, is it just maybe possible that a society of three hundred million people can work on more than one issue at a time?
-- Bugs, birds, fish and plants with names linked to white supremacists may be renamed, as science confronts its own ties to systemic racism.
"We know that changing bird names is not going to fix racism as much as I wish it would. But we're working on removing this one brick, that is part of this huge thing we need to deal with," Jordan Rutter, a co-founder of Bird Names for Birds, told Axios.
Advocates turn attention on bugs, birds, fish, and plants with racist names
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...www.yahoo.com
Is this being socially sensitive or a little absurd?
Being "woke" to me is beginning to become the author of confusion and self-congratulatory, political correctness, not anything meaningfully constructive. If I thought changing the names of bugs, birds, fish, plants, sports teams, etc would really accomplish anything, I'd support it. But you can't alter or erase past mistakes by whitewashing the present.
Current and active acts of prejudice and racism should be addressed but we need reminders of our past in order not to repeat those mistakes. US history is a mixture of a rich and diverse culture where some pejorative names were used, and historical figures committed atrocious offenses and were less than enlightened. Let the past be the past and focus our energies on fixing today's real problems, like police using excessive force, immigration, voting, infrastructure, pandemic measures, etc.
What a well thought out response.
Your weird and disjointed answer and accusatory remarks show how stupid renaming is. You want us to pop pimples while the patient needs surgery. Fix the bigger problems, then you'll know how to address the little issues. Or are priorities too difficult a concept to grasp?
And what does renaming a bird accomplish?
Which was negatively affecting...?
Gypsies call themselves proudly by that name. Most of the names they want to change are innocuous. Pretending that the ****ing bird is an obstacle to ending racism is a joke, it fixes nothing but your need for control.
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