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Many North American birds bear names with racist roots. That's beginning to change
CNN via MSN ^
| 09 Jun 2021
| Leah Asmelash
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 ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters; culturalrape; culturedestruction; freebird; liberalracism; orinthology; racehate; wokebirds
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To: bryan999
Will they then propose a law to make it illegal to use the banned bird names? Are we to be canceled when we do?
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posted on
06/09/2021 4:39:01 PM PDT
by
arthurus
( covfefe I|l)
To: monkeyshine
I guess the Rockford Files episode where Falcone yells “freeze Turkey!” is going out?
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posted on
06/09/2021 4:39:27 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
To: CivilWarBrewing
Hah! Funny you should say that! We have a pair of crows that my husband has been feeding and we named the Edgar Allen and Sheryl. Then a second male showed up, and of course we named him Jim!
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posted on
06/09/2021 4:44:54 PM PDT
by
ValleyofHope
(Anti-marxist ally)
To: MGunny
Good Grief! When is the nonsense going to end?????
It is never going to end -- because too many of these people are making careers out of finding things to change because they are offended by them.
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posted on
06/09/2021 4:46:06 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: blueplum
How many blacks have won Nobel prizes?
Peace: 12
Literature: 3
Economics: 1
Physics: 0
Chemistry: 0
Medicine: 0
Fields Medal for Mathematics: 0
Imagine how much pressure there is, and yet, nothing.
To: Phillyred
What about the black woodcock?
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posted on
06/09/2021 4:48:30 PM PDT
by
seowulf
(Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
To: blueplum
Goodbye Yellow-bellied Sap Suckers
67
posted on
06/09/2021 4:48:37 PM PDT
by
Old Yeller
(Whatever doesn’t kill you will make you stronger. Except bears. Bears will definitely kill you.h)
To: CivilWarBrewing
Clark’s Nutcracker and Lewis’s Woodpecker must surely be on the chopping block, owing to their namesakes.
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posted on
06/09/2021 4:53:01 PM PDT
by
gundog
(It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
To: fhayek
Nooo! And with it my favorite: the blue footed booby.
To: blueplum
About 145 idiotic ideas ago just like this one was when I said “Now I’ve seen everything”.
70
posted on
06/09/2021 5:07:20 PM PDT
by
jughandle
(Big words anger me, keep talking. )
To: blueplum
The fact that all these silly irrelevant things are upsetting to leftists explains why they are always angry and looking so grumpy.
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posted on
06/09/2021 5:07:35 PM PDT
by
Gumdrop
To: blueplum
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posted on
06/09/2021 5:08:53 PM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: JBW1949
I thought that was the Dodo...
73
posted on
06/09/2021 5:11:35 PM PDT
by
Bikkuri
(If you're conservative, you're an "extremist." If you're liberal, you're an "activist.")
To: BlessedBeGod
That was my first thought, too.
https://www.treehugger.com/things-you-didnt-know-about-john-james-audubon-4863535
To: Sacajaweau
To: blueplum
Racists are people who are obsessed with race, make everything about race, and project their own rabid racism onto everyone else.
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posted on
06/09/2021 5:18:05 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Lefties call anything they can use to subjugate other people "science.")
To: blueplum
Cardinals, Orioles and Blue Jays team names now in jeopardy.
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posted on
06/09/2021 5:18:07 PM PDT
by
xp38
To: All
Long-tailed Ducks are commonly referred to as Oldsquaws. It’s not the formal name, but still hear people refer to this species as such.
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posted on
06/09/2021 5:18:24 PM PDT
by
Fury
To: bwest
Not racist but sexist so I'd thought I'd throw it in.
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posted on
06/09/2021 5:21:45 PM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: PROCON
I’ve pairs of great tits from time to time.
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