Pursued to its “woke” (warped) conclusion, shouldn’t every black American with a European family name be “decolonized” by being compelled to adopt a geographically suitable African family name?
And while we are about it, why not decolonize everything by stripping names off of everything? Strip every building, every bridge, airport, dam, street, etc. Branch out to city name, then counties, and states. A heck of lot of cultural appropriation in using Native American names in naming states and geographical features.
And the one thing we must avoid at all costs is using the name of any past or presently living human being because there is a possibility, however slight, that sometime in the past they may just possibly had and/or expressed an insensitive, unwoke thought. Perhaps even two.
Going back to birds. Don’t forget to decolonize their scientific names as well. This is because using Latin and Greek is very definitely a manifestation of White Supremacy.
And the Periodic Table!!! Don’t get me started.
“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