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Posted on 11/24/2023 1:57:40 PM PST by allen592
In a significant move towards fostering inclusivity and distancing avian species from problematic historical figures, the American Ornithological Society (AOS) has announced its intention to rename several North American birds. This initiative, set to impact numerous avian species in Pennsylvania, aims to dissociate these magnificent creatures from namesakes associated with racism.
The AOS's decision to rename certain birds stems from the realization that several species, such as the Townsend's warbler and solitaire, bear names that honor individuals with racist backgrounds. Peter Saenger, an ornithologist from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, has highlighted that this project could potentially affect over a dozen birds that breed, migrate to, or visit Pennsylvania.
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Have you not heard? It was my understanding that everyone had heard....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WNrx2jq184
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Muhlenberg College in Allentown. Ugh. I used to work parties and dances for them. They are generally an insufferable group of emotionally-stunted drunks. Breaking up fights over Facebook posts and other stupidity. Even attendees at ghetto class parties behave much better.
What about Woodpeckers, isn’t that term offensive ? [\S]
I’d love to see some species of bird named after Pinochet, but that’ll probably never happen.
Sounds as if they’ve outlived whatever usefulness they may have had.
Fahrenheit 451 and 1984 here we come.
He’s a nobody teaching a useless subject no one cares about at a nothing “university”.
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Here is this dipsh*t’s email. Tell him what you think of his galactically stupid idea
You mean the Nathan Bedford Forrest Cross-burning Songbird might be racist?
(using absurdity to point out liberal absurdity)
I was talking to a couple of staff members at Cornell’s Ornithology Lab earlier this year. One told me there is not unanimity in these recommendations at the Lab. But the word was informally communicated that open dissent would not bode well for careers.
Don't forget the third line of that radio ad:
What's the action? Satisfaction!
And a fourth line was added by ironical radio listeners in the section of Virginia I was visiting. Let's just say it quite accurately and gently identified the main consumers of Thunderbird wine.
I fear there is no cure for the stupid virus.
Another team has to change their name.
The answer to this is just say no but cowards afraid of being called names acquiesce to the mob.
And the city.
His family were anti-slavery activists, so no problem there.
Nope. His great sin was that while he was collecting a boatload of newly-discovered birds & mammals on an 1830s expedition to the Northwest, he robbed a skull from a grave of a Chinook Indian to give to a friend of his back East who collected & analyzed skulls of different races.
And that's it!!!
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