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.