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 ...
Re: Lewis’s Woodpecker - that’s a damn shame if they change the name. Lewis discovered this bird and brought back skins for Wilson to describe.
That reminds me of an incident in Ralph’s Latin I class when I was in grade 12 (Latin I had been in hiatus for the first three years of my time at MHS) when a junior guy managed to get a well-endowed (physically at least) sophomore to try to touch her elbows behind her back.
The left is delusional
No, the Left is evil.
If the biggest problem facing minorities is the name of birds then we can say that their is no real racism.
Magpies
Woodcocks Dickcissels and Bushtits unite.
The Loon is the democrat citizen...
The Dodo is the democrat politician...
LOL...
And why not?
Is there any slightest indication that the American people would either stop, attempt to stop, or raise hell about this?
The communists are living large and in total control...
This is just the barebones beginning...
When Americans find out, they will band together at Concord Bridge and:
Bow down!... Obey!... Snitch!...
Grand Prize Question!
Q: For all the money... what one American Institution embodies all the history, legacy, and ideological doctrines of American Racism and White Supremacy?
A: The Democratic Party of America.
Big Tech loves the “tablet” approach—they can censor the text with a touch of one keystroke—that is why I collect and buy paper books and will continue to do so.
Take these chicken wings...
We still haven’t cured cancer, we have terrorists organizing to kill us, a lot of people still go hungry and these morons are bothered by BIRD NAMES??? Send them over to a place like North Korea, force them to live like the natives, and then they might have something to complain about. The problem is, the media give them far too much ink. If they countered their idiotic complaints with, “Are you KIDDING me???”, the snowflakes would dry up and evaporate.
American taliban at work.
The Red Wing Blackbird is going to be a doozie.
How about “Bye, Bye Blackbird”?
Any birds that get cancelled will be rounded up and forced to fly around wind turbines.
It’s not
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