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Woke Lunacy Update: Why murder hornets are getting a new name

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Why murder hornets are getting a new name
The world’s largest wasp has a new common name, designed to avoid evoking fear and xenophobia: the northern giant

“Murder hornets” are canceled.

When Asian giant hornets arrived in the Pacific Northwest in 2020, they were dubbed “murder hornets,” creating a media sensation.
But the coverage of the species—native to East Asia—and the nickname stoked fear among the public. Many native wasps were mistakenly killed and sales of hornet-killing pesticides jumped. And the moniker never made sense, since all hornets kill prey. For these and other reasons, scientists disliked the term and avoided it. (Related: 'Murder hornet' mania highlights dangers of fearing insects and spiders.)
Of course, the hornets are legitimately fearsome-looking at an inch and a half in length—the largest wasps in the world. Being stung can also be fatal to those with allergies and can feel like being “stabbed by a red-hot needle,” says Shunichi Makino, an entomologist at Japan’s Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute.

The "news" in this story is that there are more easily-offended and feeble-minded progressives than anyone has considered possible.

We're going to need some new numbers.
 
This is like the monkey pox virus getting bad press in the gay male community. Who decides on these pandemic disease names anyway? Highly educated people like Dr. Fauci probably.
 
Murder Hornets Manslaughter Wasps Aggravated Assault Yellowjackets are not welcome in my home and avoided in the yard unless I gotta go mid evil on their stinging ass
 
Why murder hornets are getting a new name
The "news" in this story is that there are more easily-offended and feeble-minded progressives than anyone has considered possible.
We're going to need some new numbers.

In yet another mind-numbingly stupid post, this time Schism denies that names affect how people react to things.
The entirety of the Marketing industry is reeling from this news, undercutting the idea of branding in a way they have just never thought of before.

Why would someone post something so absurd? Because claiming they were "cancelled" by the woke liberals fits their juvenile narratives.
 
In yet another mind-numbingly stupid post, this time Schism denies that names affect how people react to things.
The entirety of the Marketing industry is reeling from this news, undercutting the idea of branding in a way they have just never thought of before.

Why would someone post something so absurd? Because claiming they were "cancelled" by the woke liberals fits their juvenile narratives.

*sniffle*
 
Yeah, I am REALLY offended, shame on the damn Libruls, Socialists, Proooogresives and them thar scientists, this is disgraceful, I am gonna be upset all night and all next day over this here story. Probably will have to take a valium.
 
In which Schism now admits that RWers are obviously not among the ranks of scientists.

Scientists?LOL!

From what published scientific studies did these entomologists determine that "xenophobia" falls within their discipline?

Nope. This has all the hallmarks of woke activist nutters.
 
Scientists?LOL!

From what published scientific studies did these entomologists determine that "xenophobia" falls within their discipline?

Nope. This has all the hallmarks of woke activist nutters.
And your evidence is...what? That you disagree with them, and all people you disagree with are woke activist nutters?

"Murder" hornets was never a name given to them by the scientific community, but a nickname given by others.

You do seem to find the most petty of things to whine about here on a daily basis.
 
Conservative cultural grievance must be truly exhausting for those afflicted by it. I honestly can’t imagine what it must be like to not only care about a Nat Geo article like this at a deep personal level, but to be emotionally impacted by it to this degree.
 
Why murder hornets are getting a new name


The "news" in this story is that there are more easily-offended and feeble-minded progressives than anyone has considered possible.

We're going to need some new numbers.

This is one of the dumber trolling threads I've seen, and you really should understand the turds past and present with whom you would compete.

I hate to break it to you, but feigning stupid-ass poutrage about an official naming in the dumbest way possible and calling it "woke", does not magically transfer the dumbness to "woke." The dumbness stays with your post, with your words, with the stupid shit that fell out of your head and disgraced your keyboard with aplomb.
 
Murder Hornets Manslaughter Wasps Aggravated Assault Yellowjackets are not welcome in my home and avoided in the yard unless I gotta go mid evil on their stinging ass

They should just call them "run"
 
Conservative cultural grievance must be truly exhausting for those afflicted by it. I honestly can’t imagine what it must be like to not only care about a Nat Geo article like this at a deep personal level, but to be emotionally impacted by it to this degree.
@Schism needs his safe space, poor liddle snowflake getting so triggered by those mean ol' scientists.
 
Guys I think Schism thinks they are literally called murder hornets. He thinks that's their actual name.
 
Scientists?LOL!

From what published scientific studies did these entomologists determine that "xenophobia" falls within their discipline?

Nope. This has all the hallmarks of woke activist nutters.
"independent"

I got a good chuckle out of that.
 
Why murder hornets are getting a new name


The "news" in this story is that there are more easily-offended and feeble-minded progressives than anyone has considered possible.

We're going to need some new numbers.
You got it ass backwards. The colloquial name was changed because snowflake, right wing xenophobes were being triggered by “murder hornets”.

“Chris Looney, an entomologist at the Washington State Department of Agriculture who has been leading efforts to control the spread of the hornets, wrote the official proposal to change the insect’s name. He cited various reasons for doing so, including the rise of anti-Asian hate crimes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Connecting a scary insect, already associated with murder and attempted eradication, to Asia, might stoke more anti-Asian sentiment.

“In my personal experience I have heard statements like ‘another damn thing from China’ multiple times (irrespective of the fact that the hornets detected in North America likely originated in Japan or Korea),” Dr. Looney wrote.”

 
This is like the monkey pox virus getting bad press in the gay male community. Who decides on these pandemic disease names anyway? Highly educated people like Dr. Fauci probably.
1. Monkey pox primarily effects the gay and bi communities.
2. Monkey pox is not a pandemic.
3. Monkey pox got it’s name from an infection originally occurring within a group of laboratory testing chimpanzees.

One doesn’t need to be highly educated to know the simple facts regarding monkey pox. Just not too damn lazy to use Google.
 
The hornets don't actually kill people, so it's the name "murder hornets" which was wrong.

Why do you care anyway? Anything which isn't explicitly right-wing is "woke" to you. One could almost say that the Woke is living rent free in your head!
 
Complaining about the change in name from murder hornets is a petty concern.
 
Scientists?LOL!

From what published scientific studies did these entomologists determine that "xenophobia" falls within their discipline?

Nope. This has all the hallmarks of woke activist nutters.


When idiots in the public panic and buy insecticide that is hurting the environment due to panic. ( peeing in pants panic) The American public in general is full of idiots easily manipulated and led. Some US leaders have stated they love the poorly educated, for that reason
 
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