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New York City Audubon changes name over racist past
The Hill ^ | 06/06/2024 | TARA SUTER

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.”

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KEYWORDS: applywelfare; audubon; donate; jimneedsyou; nyc; past; racist
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Because “NYC Birdbrains” was already taken?


21 posted on 06/06/2024 12:50:48 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Red Badger
When the word ‘slave’ disappears from our languages, we will all be slaves......................

Brilliant! That's it, in a nutshell. You are describing people who are all shell and no nuts.

22 posted on 06/06/2024 12:51:28 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This seems to be just in New York City where they are already half crazy. What worries me is that it could spread.


23 posted on 06/06/2024 12:51:41 PM PDT by KittyKares
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Go woke, go broke. Good luck fund raising on the bird society brand name.


24 posted on 06/06/2024 12:53:53 PM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: KittyKares
What worries me is that it could spread.

Uh oh … BIRD FLU!
25 posted on 06/06/2024 12:57:45 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (Stormy Daniels is a McGuffin)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Too bad. I voted for “Organization of Unhinged Ornithologists”.


26 posted on 06/06/2024 12:58:54 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Is there anyone from the past who can be honored for anything nowadays?

Did anyone from the 19th century have a 21st century politically correct conscience or worldview?

They set this up so that no organization or city or town or any public place can be named in honor of anyone from the past , because there is going to be something objectionable in the past of anyone who lived hundreds of years ago.

When will Columbus Ohio change its name?
When will Washington DC change its name?
When will Washington State change its name?
When will Columbia University change its name?
When will the District of Columbia change its name?


27 posted on 06/06/2024 12:59:13 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Kamala Harris’s ancestors owned slaves yet she’s still paid by taxpayers.


28 posted on 06/06/2024 1:03:53 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Puppage

They gonna repay the Audobon family, with interest, of all the funds they put up to create the society? How about all the money it made over the last century?

Didn’t think so. But they will keep all of the fruits of the “evil man’s” labor, money and foresight, won’t they?


29 posted on 06/06/2024 1:07:24 PM PDT by TonyinLA (I don't have sufficient information to formulate a reasoned opinion said no lefty ever.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How about that racist German road, the Autobahn?


30 posted on 06/06/2024 1:07:38 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

What worries me is that it could spread.

Uh oh … BIRD FLU!
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Good one! LOL.


31 posted on 06/06/2024 1:29:35 PM PDT by KittyKares
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Attn woke Aholes: Just start your own bs naturalist organisations instead of infecting a legacy one and assassinating its’ founder.


32 posted on 06/06/2024 1:37:16 PM PDT by A strike (no tyranny that cannot be justified by 'climate change')
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Lord yes. These people never stop. It’s women.


33 posted on 06/06/2024 1:40:38 PM PDT by dljordan (What would Michael Collins do?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

New York needs to change its name—it got its name when Charles II gave it to his brother the Duke of York (later King James II), who was involved in the African slave trade.


34 posted on 06/06/2024 1:45:15 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: ChicagoConservative27

That’s how I feel…….good lord .

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35 posted on 06/06/2024 1:46:06 PM PDT by Mears
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m sure I’ve heard historians claim that Audubon was black.


36 posted on 06/06/2024 1:47:26 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“NYC Bird Alliance”

NYC stands for New York City.

Who was “York” in New York?

https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-royal-african-company


37 posted on 06/06/2024 2:02:37 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Can the Audobon Zoo (where dey all asked for you), be far behind?


38 posted on 06/06/2024 2:05:23 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger

The Internet Software Consortium (ISC), which develops the “Bind” DNS server (the one most widespread on the Internet), made the following important change to their software and documentation a few years ago:

What used to be called “master” and “slave” servers — useful for failure resistance, especially for larger organizations — are now called “primary” and “secondary” servers. (Note that servers are computers, not humans.)

Fortunately, they still allow the old terminology in the configuration files, so things still work (for now).


39 posted on 06/06/2024 2:50:57 PM PDT by powerset
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Other racists:

Margaret Sanger. Therefore Planned Parenthood must be shut down.

Sir Isaac Newton. Please divest yourselves of all technology developed since the beginning of the 19th Century.

For that matter Sir Francis Bacon was a racist. Please divest yourselves of all technology developed since the 16th Century.

Aristotle was a sexist as well as a racist. Please eliminate everything you have that resulted from the use of logic. Live in dirt and shyt on yourselves.

This is fun


40 posted on 06/06/2024 3:43:00 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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