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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.
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.
"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...
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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.