Murder hornets are getting a new name: Here’s why

Nexstar Media Wire ^ | 7/25/2022 | Amanda Arden

[Ken H]

Call them the Green Hornets.

[AnthonySoprano]

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No.

CBS affiliates are carrying it, too.

[Beowulf9]

How do you tell the difference between a Northern giant hornet and a Southern giant hornet?

A Northern giant hornet kills honeybees and a Southern giant hornet CALLS you a honeybee.

[Tagurit]

When you stir up a nest and have them all coming for you, I’ll bet they’ll be called all kinds of names!

[paint_your_wagon]

Evidence that Biden’s brain has been infected with the French disease.

[Nifster]

One would have to shut the bath houses

[Highest Authority]

Well, there’s another “Society” you can’t believe any more!

[UnwashedPeasant]

The BLM people attacking Asians have never heard of Murder Hornets.

[glorgau]

Can’t have fun names anymore, everything must be bland.

[Yo-Yo]

Murder hornets are getting a new name:

Chicago Hornets?

[Lazamataz]

“Amid a rise in hate crimes and discrimination against people of Asian descent, usage of ‘Asian’ in the name of a pest insect can unintentionally bolster anti-Asian sentiment,” the ESA wrote in a news release.

I prefer the name "Inscrutable Slope ChingChing Wong Coolie Dink Hornet".

[jughandle]

Thought those things were from Africa or South America..

[alexander_busek]

Whatever happened to the African killer bees?

Get with the time, you ra-acist!

They are now "Killer Bees of Color!"

Regards,

[maddog55]

Yet another asinine liberal woke ass name game. Hopefully the murder hornets aren’t offended and we wind up providing retribution and fee hives.

[Paperpusher]

Yeah, that was interesting. Shutter churches to stop COVID but don’t shutter bathhouses to stop Monkeypox. Liberal logic.

[Savage Beast]

So "murder" is a racial slur against Asians???

Have they thought this through? Don't they realize that "northern giant hornet" is a slur against northern people, tall people, people with acromegaly, and the sexually deprived?

What can these people be thinking!

[I want the USA back]

Why not name them White Heterosexual Male hornets, then everybody can hate them equally!?

[castlebrew]

“Vespa mandarinia” actually translates from Latin as “Mandarin Wasp”. So it’s Chinese, not the generic Asian.

Unless one uses the term “mandarin” to connote:

* A high government official or bureaucrat.

or

* A member of an elite group, especially a person having influence or high status in intellectual or cultural circles. an untouchable elite.

[BradyLS]

Tyranovespa Rex

[Boogieman]

“Amid a rise in hate crimes and discrimination against people of Asian descent, usage of ‘Asian’ in the name of a pest insect can unintentionally bolster anti-Asian sentiment,”

Okay, so call it the “Oriental Murder Hornet” then.