[artichokegrower]

The research team “examined the origins of over 2,200 place names in 16 national parks in the United States” and found all of the locations “have place names that tacitly endorse racist or, more specifically, anti-Indigenous ideologies.” There are a total of 62 national parks.

These names are “thus perpetuating settler colonialism and white supremacy at the system scale for future generations.”

I wish these professors would go to a national park and a bear would eat them

[taxcontrol]

Withlacoochee / Apalachicola / Anadarko place names that just role off the tongue. /sarc

[2nd Amendment]

Old Faithful has to be changed to young infidelity

[Verginius Rufus]

Crater Lake needs to be renamed because Judge Crater was a white guy?

Teddy Roosevelt was truly amazing. Evidently he was responsible for Yellowstone National Park (made a national park when he was 13 or 14 years old).

[JimRed]

A group of professors and researchers useless academics identified 960 places within 16 of the country’s 62 national parks that contain “racist” names that promote “white supremacy,” “racism,” “settler colonialism” or “anti-Indigenous ideologies.”

ACADEMIC (ak-uh-DEM-ik): An individual educated beyond his intelligence who is unwilling or unable to create or provide anything of value to others, who while hiding out in a think-tank, college or university pontificates and expects to be paid for it, usually from public funds.

[Trillian]

They need to get a life and an actual job.

[SJackson]

Outdoors/Rural/wildlife/hunting/hiking/backpacking/National Parks/animals list please FR mail me to be on or off . And ping me is you see articles of interest.

[refreshed]

Professors apparently have too much time on their hands.