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Birds Getting New Names In ‘Anti-Racism’ Effort
The Political Insiders ^ | 11-2-23 | KATHLEEN J. ANDERSON

Posted on 11/03/2023 7:25:09 AM PDT by Paul46360

But racism runs deep. Next up on the chopping block are our fine feathered friends: birds. The American Ornithological Society has announced that starting next year they will rename all birds in the United States and Canada that have English names.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: antiracism; birds; names; woke
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Just like the LEFT removed blacks and Native Americans from advertisements without asking them!!!!
1 posted on 11/03/2023 7:25:09 AM PDT by Paul46360
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To: Paul46360

A Murder of Crows?......................


2 posted on 11/03/2023 7:31:33 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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Guess they'll have to change their name....

3 posted on 11/03/2023 7:33:07 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Paul46360
No more blackbirds then?

4 posted on 11/03/2023 7:34:00 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty)
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To: dfwgator

And Blackfoot, too...............

5 posted on 11/03/2023 7:34:40 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Paul46360

Cardinals are beautiful red birds. Cardinals are also mostly old white men in the Catholic hierarchy. So I guess we’ve got to rename cardinals.

Either the bird or the Catholic officials. I don’t think it matters which one.
My suggestion:

If the bird, call them blood birds.
If the Catholic officials, call them super-bishops.

Pretty simple, actually.


6 posted on 11/03/2023 7:35:51 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Paul46360

The AOS changed one bird’s name because it was named after a ornithologist that served the Confederacy. I can’t wait until the holier than thou racists get to hear the MLK,Jr. tapes and the world finds out who he really was and see if their holier than thou world can handle that.


7 posted on 11/03/2023 7:37:38 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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So are birds going to get names like LaFawnDuh and DeQuanarius?

That should be fun.


8 posted on 11/03/2023 7:37:59 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Leaning Right

As opposed to gay shops or straight shops, or perhaps transgender shops?


9 posted on 11/03/2023 7:39:03 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: Paul46360
So are they going to erase Lewis and Clark?

Lewis’s Woodpecker and Clark’s Nutcracker are both named by (and for) these two iconic explorers.

10 posted on 11/03/2023 7:40:40 AM PDT by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: Paul46360

It’s time for us to remove any name or thought associated with Commie thugs.


11 posted on 11/03/2023 7:40:45 AM PDT by GOPJ (The reason Biden won't protect our border is he wants cash kickbacks for doing it. )
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But have they changed the names of roads, buildings, bridges and hospitals named after a different kind of Byrd? Have they changed the names of all the infrastructures that were named after the longest serving Democrat in Congress, who was also a Grand Kleagle of the Klu Klux Klan?


12 posted on 11/03/2023 7:44:25 AM PDT by Eva (…)
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So the “Robin” becomes the “Reparations”
The Blue-Footed Bobbie becomes the…

No, not going there.


13 posted on 11/03/2023 7:46:16 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: vetvetdoug

It’s not those old tapes that could do MLK in.

MLK thought homosexuality was a mental disorder, and in his writings he advised gays to seek psychiatric help. If that ever became widespread public knowledge, would the LGBTQ crowd demand that all streets named after MLK be renamed?


14 posted on 11/03/2023 7:49:54 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: vetvetdoug

Not a confederate.

The Scott’s Oriole, a black-and-yellow bird, was named after Winfield Scott, a Civil War general known for overseeing the forced relocation of Indigenous peoples in 1838 - which is now known as the Trail of Tears.

He was Chief of Staff of the US Army in 1861. Despite being a Virginia native, Scott stayed loyal to the Union when the Civil War broke out and served as an important adviser to President Abraham Lincoln during the opening stages of the war.


15 posted on 11/03/2023 7:54:51 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: muir_redwoods

When at my favorite resort by the pool, and I am looking around ... and my wife asks what I am looking at ... I tell her Boobies and point to a bird. Technically, I am correct. Not for long I suppose.


16 posted on 11/03/2023 7:55:53 AM PDT by RainMan (Democrats ... making war against America since April 12, 1861)
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To: muir_redwoods
what about the TUFTED TITMOUSE!!!???
Will it be the tufted CHESTmouse????
17 posted on 11/03/2023 7:59:23 AM PDT by Paul46360 (What??ME worry?)
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It’s the real racists that see racism everywhere...even if it doesn’t exist. These people want to change the name of birds because someone who may have been involved in slavery named them? Is that what they are doing? First of all...leave the birds alone! Good gravy, because of YOUR beliefs, the rest of us have to go along with your stupid ideas and learn the new names of birds that YOU give them? No. Period.


18 posted on 11/03/2023 8:03:45 AM PDT by JoJo354 (We are the revolution....)
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To: Paul46360

These birdbrains need to leave the bird names alone and either get a job or go sit in a corner somewhere and ponder their navel lint and genitals.


19 posted on 11/03/2023 8:11:02 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (We're seeing why the "younger" generations are not patriotic. They're big fans of terrorists.)
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To: Leaning Right

I doubt they’ll say they are changing the name of the cardinals because cardinals are old white Catholics. They’ll probably blame it on the Cardinals being a lousy football team.


20 posted on 11/03/2023 8:13:52 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (We're seeing why the "younger" generations are not patriotic. They're big fans of terrorists.)
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