Posted on 06/09/2021 4:05:09 PM PDT by blueplum
As the US continues to reassess its relationship to racism, offensive sports team and school names have changed. Up next? Bird names.
Bird Names for Birds is a grassroots initiative aiming to change eponymous common names of birds, specifically in North America, arguing that many have been named after problematic people....
...On Tuesday, there was another step forward. The AOS announced a new ad hoc committee that would make recommendations for guidelines on how to identify and change "harmful English bird names," ...
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
“Sooooooooooooooooooooo, how many bird books out there are going to have to be changed?”
None...they will be burned of course..and anyone caught with books banned by the party will be arrested and charged with a thought crime.
Stories like this are straight out of the USSR in the mid 1920s when they were busy destroying everything of the old culture.
Has anyone asked a bird what they thought of their names?
Bird Names Matter!
I wonder when they are going to come calling for the Grand Tetons.
We are falling off the end of the earth! We are living in the age of Columbus.
Liberalism is a chronic, no-cure mental disease.
This is just another classic example.
They need to be locked up in an insane asylum.
Good Grief! When is the nonsense going to end?????
I really should have been born into a much less inane era.
The Loon is named after democrats...
These people are out of their minds:
“The ad hoc committee’s commission — Our goal is to have specific, informed recommendations by early 2022 for a process that will allow the society to thoughtfully and proactively change English bird names where such changes are deemed warranted. To be very clear, this committee will not be charged with proposing new bird names, but rather will provide a set of recommendations for a new process for changing bird names that are harmful or exclusionary. The timeline and process for identifying and changing names will depend on the recommendations developed by this committee.”
so I guess we’ll have to eliminate names such as:
Blue footed boobies.
Yellow bellied sapsuckers.
and Tits.
This is getting TOTALLY out of hand.
Racist..BIRD NAMES?
Wow.
Cussing? TITS isn’t cussing in the bird name thread.
Heckle and the Jeckle were my favorite
That joke was a real NUT CRACKER. Did I say “CRACKER” oh no!
All the names mentioned appear to not be the general name of a bird, but one member of a bird group that is preceded by a prefix that is a name, the name of someone who discovered, or named, the bird in north America, and when that person is said to have some “racist” past.
Yes, all persons are either only good or only bad and thus we must erase EVERYTHING regarding anyone who was not perfect, who only did good things and never any bad thing. /sarc
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right.
George Orwell
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