Posted on 06/06/2024 12:28:09 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The New York City Audubon organization has officially changed its name to NYC Bird Alliance to distance itself from the history of John James Audubon, the 19th century naturalist who was also a slave owner and vocal opponent of abolition.
“After a multi-year process to assess the Audubon name and then to choose a new one, on June 5, 2024 the organization’s members voted to approve the new name, NYC Bird Alliance,” a page on the group’s website states, adding separately that “the use of ‘Audubon’ in our name affects our ability to retain and attract staff, board members, supporters, volunteers, and organization members.”
“While we value John James Audubon’s contributions to art and ornithology, and the foundation he laid for an appreciation of nature and a conservation ethos in this country, we recognize that his views and actions towards people of color and Indigenous people were harmful and offensive — and that the harm continues today, presenting a barrier to people who might otherwise become involved in or support our work.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Absolute whack jobs.
This is 100% virtue signaling until these leftists distance themselves from the Democrat political party that literally fought a war to keep slavery going.
“harmful and offensive”
We just know that the leftists are pure of heart and harbor no ill will toward any sentient being.
No it doesn't. And if there are the people it "doesn't attract," those people are idiots, anyway.
I think any employee or contributor that has a problem with the name “Audubon”, is a problem in themselves. Any organization is better off without them.
Please remind me to ignore in the future anything from the former Audubon.
What if we were to find out that Larry was racist?
Washington, D.C. will now be called the Nation’s Capital, because of the slave holding history of George Washington.
Is it the Bird Alliance or the Byrd Alliance?
Someone will be triggered by the new name.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984
When the word ‘slave’ disappears from our languages, we will all be slaves......................
Liberals are idiots.
Lol
Does NYC hold a special place in being idiots, champions of virtue-signalling, leaders in being obnoxious fault-finders? They find things to complain about where no one else finds fault. Let them find fault in themselves first.
An alliance of birds—bird brains. A flock of murdering crows with a single call——kawwwwwww! Forgetting what Audubon did to preserve bird species. just moronic reasoning.
I heard that Audubon also possibly held an unfavorable view of male sodomy.
Heretic!!!
bunch of fags.
Newspeak.
Yet down the east side of NYChitty runs the FDR Parkway....
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