Many insect, animal names are racist, scholars say — so it's time for a change ... No more slave-maker ants? Gypsy moths?

https://www.theblaze.com ^ | August 03, 2020 | SARAH TAYLOR

[Secret Agent Man]

Faggot moth refers to when a faggot was a small dry stick/twig, usually used for kindling.

Fags also meant cigarettes.

[blueplum]

get yur boot off the neck of my culture

if you don’t like the names used in WESTERN science, print your own book of names for use in non-western science.

[Red Badger]

Cracker Ants.......................

[Free in Texas]

Ha! Excellent.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

These are not scientists but political operatives.

Now Mick Jagger and Don Covay will have to change the first verse of Mercy Mercy: "I went to see the Gypsy"

[Chode]

and monkey man...

[Magnum44]

What shall we call actual gypsies now?

[Red Badger]

They prefer ‘Roma’.........................

[GOPJ]

These are not scientists but political operatives.

BINGO

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Consistent with replacing military commanders (I won’t say DOD because that always had politicians) with poltical operatives. NASA used to have a rational mission before Obama. But they keep the old names in the Executive Branch, for now.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

And Puccini should be ashamed of himself for “La Boheme”

[dfwgator]

And Puccini should be ashamed of himself for “La Boheme”

"It's an opera!"

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Good one. If the word "gypsy" is "hurtful" why not "Boheme?"

[glennaro]

"slave-maker ants" What the hell is that?!

I've always favored "pussy ants" though I never actually saw one. Ants are small, y'know! (Just joining in on the lunacy for a minute!)

Besides, "pussy" isn't a race so the name should meet the Left's approval ... although it does describe your typical metrosexual "male" Leftist so, ya never know!