Posted on 02/12/2021 11:51:17 AM PST by SJackson
The bird was offended?
“And the Periodic Table!!! Don’t get me started.”
Many of the transuranic elements are named after recipients of the Nobel Prize, including:
bohrium (Niels Bohr),
curium (Marie and Pierre Curie),
einsteinium (Albert Einstein),
fermium (Enrico Fermi),
lawrencium (Ernest Lawrence),
roentgenium (Wilhelm Röntgen),
rutherfordium (Ernest Rutherford),
seaborgium (Glenn T. Seaborg).
Transuranic elements named in honour of scientists who did not receive the prize include:[6][7]
copernicium (Nicolaus Copernicus),
meitnerium (Lise Meitner),
mendelevium (Dmitri Mendeleev),
nobelium (Alfred Nobel),
oganesson (Yuri Oganessian).
The transuranic element americium is indirectly named (via the continents The Americas[8]) after Amerigo Vespucci[9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_of_chemical_elements#People
...doing their own research and trying to spread the knowledge of the world and science.
Let’s take it to its end: Science is colonization, therefore science has to be banned. Why not? Logic and reason has been deemed to be the perpetuation of white cisheteropatriarchy.
...demand that they only call birds by the names they give themselves.
Killdeer!
See! See! All dead white men!
(Well...okay. There are two dead white women in there, too.)
But...but, they are still all white. So, despite actually having to “discover” the element in question, the names are still obviously racist because...because... Well, the word “discovery” was once used to describe European contact with populated lands in the Americas, Asia, and Africa. Now “Discovery” does not mean “uninhabited.” But, to the woke, once considered tainted, every subsequent use is tainted no matter how marginal the connection. So there.
Well, the word “discovery” was once used to describe European contact with populated lands in the Americas...
Americas you say?
Amerigo Vespucci??? Just another real estate salesman.
Native naming of the continent
In 1977, the World Council of Indigenous Peoples (Consejo Mundial de Pueblos Indígenas) proposed using the term Abya Yala instead of “America” when referring to the continent. There are also names in other indigenous languages such as Ixachilan and Runa Pacha. Some scholars have picked up the term with a reference to the illegitimacy of colonialism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_of_the_Americas
And not one of the SOBs paid anything for the naming rights!!!
BS artists, the whole lot of them.
I don’t know if this is a Maryland Freak State PING! or something out of the Babylon Bee........
I’m not sure how we’re going to deal with the woodpecker, since it’s name is a syllabic inversion of peckerwood, which is a slur on White people.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Does this mean we have to rename Snoopy? After all, Darwin the racist sailed on a ship called The Beagle.
Fine, change the city name to Mogadishu.
True dat.
My in-laws on my wife’s side are some of the finest Alabama peckerwoods you’ll ever meet. LOL!
So stupid
How about Robin?
Like in Batman and Robin.
And Robin has another problem, Red Breasted Robin will become Red Chested Robin.
Ha! Spanish!
Any organization referring to itself as Consejo Mundial de Pueblos Indígenas needs to first decolonize itself before deciding to wade in on what the proper name of the Americas is.
Not if you have a wood pecker.
While we’re at it we need to do away with tits. No more blue tits, black tits, or great tits. It’s sexist
Groucho: I dunno. Sometimes a tit the hand is worth two in the bush. Well, is that two tits in the bush or two hands in the bush. It’s just not clear. Sometimes you’ve got to think about these things.
Chico: I think about them all the time, Boss.
will Batman ever recover?
Why is “yellow” bad? It matches with still-used “white” and associated “black”. Bring back red!
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