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Racist birds that is.Historian Brion McClanahan called it a long time ago, the perpetually butthurt modern Jacobins weren't going to stop with tearing down historical art like Confederate monuments, renaming military bases and schools or anything else visual or in words that hurt their feelings. In order to remake history to fit their woke vision of a brave new world and set the calendar to YEAR 0, everything has to go. You can't have children in the future asking questions about what these names mean or investigating why these people were important. All you have to do is erase their name or erase their image and it will be like a symbolic trip to the guillotine and it'll make it like they never existed. It will be much easier to groom the children to correct party thinking that way. Now they continue their march for the birds, bird names more explicitly named after people in the past who are considered problematic. "Exclusionary naming conventions developed in the 1800s, clouded by racism and misogyny, don't work for us today, and the time has come for us to transform this process and redirect the focus to the birds, where it belongs," the American Ornithological Society's CEO, Judith Scarlt.The puffbird named Nystalus obamai, discovered in 2008 by Bret Whitney, which was named after former US president Barack Obama will be remain unchanged of course. Birds are RacistNov 3, 2023 Brion McClanahan According to the American Ornithological Society, bird names are racist and must be changed so that more people will like bird watching. You know how they know this? They don't, but one person complained, so the names have to go. You can't make up this kind of stupid.https://youtu.be/XqjkLeBGsBg?si=n29oza7QVFfyFiGGOrnithological society to rename dozens of birds — and stop naming them after peopleCHRISTINA LARSON Associated Press Nov 5, 2023 Quote:Birds in North America will no longer be named after people, the American Ornithological Society says.
Next year, the organization will begin to rename around 80 species found in the U.S. and Canada.
“There is power in a name, and some English bird names have associations with the past that continue to be exclusionary and harmful today,” the organization's president, Colleen Handel, said in a statement. “Everyone who loves and cares about birds should be able to enjoy and study them freely.”
Rather than review each bird named after a person individually, all such birds will be renamed, the organization announced.
Birds that will be renamed include those currently called Wilson’s warbler and Wilson’s snipe, both named after the 19th century naturalist Alexander Wilson. Audubon’s shearwater, a seabird named for John James Audubon, also will get a new name.
In 2020, the organization renamed a bird once referring to a Confederate Army general, John P. McCown, as the thick-billed longspur.
“I'm really happy and excited about the announcement,” said Emily Williams, an ornithologist at Georgetown University who was not involved in the decision.
She said heated discussions over bird names have been happening within birdwatching communities for the past several years.
“Naming birds based on habitat or appearance is one of the least problematic approaches," she said.
Earlier this year, the National Audubon Society announced that it would retain its name, even as critics and some voices within the organization have argued that it should dump the association with a man, John James Audubon, whose family owned slaves.
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