Posted on 04/13/2024 8:49:12 AM PDT by DallasBiff
The scientists who have been working on changing an invasive moth’s common name, which included an ethnic slur, have made their decision.
Previously known as “gypsy moth,” the species Lymantria dispar is now “spongy moth,” according to the Entomological Society of America, which makes the Common Names of Insects and Related Organisms List, an essential database for anyone working with insects.
For the Romani people – an ethnic group originating in northern India that was at one time misidentified as Egyptian – the word “gypsy” has been offensive, dangerous and dehumanizing since it first appeared in the 1500s, Margareta Matache, director of the Roma Program at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, told CNN in July 2021.
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Have they changed the name of the plant we call ‘Wandering Jew’ yet?
I feel gypped by the whole thing.
Sponge Bob has filed an official complaint.
The scientists who have been working on changing an invasive moth’s common name.
Use numbers can’t go wrong liberal approved.
“…the word “gypsy” has been offensive, dangerous and dehumanizing since it first appeared in the 1500s, “
I’d bet that would depend on who you asked. Leftists are always deciding for everyone else what we are allowed and not allowed to say.
Oh goody. I get to make an opaque cover to use when I reread Cichester’s ‘”Gypsy Moth” Circles the World’ in public.
A few days ago I met my first gypsy. He called himself Romani and tried to con me out of money, so I decided he was a gypsy, and used that word in an FR post. Now I find that I'm RAAACIST for using the word. Imagine my concern!
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