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Dozens of bird names honoring enslavers and racists will be changed
Wash Post ^ | 11/1/2023

Posted on 11/01/2023 11:26:55 AM PDT by Altura Ct.

The American Ornithological Society says it will alter the names of North American birds named after humans, starting with up to 80 of them

After two years of discussion and debate, the nation’s premier birding organization has decided that birds should not have human names.

The American Ornithological Society announced Wednesday that it will remove names given to North American birds in honor of people and replace them with monikers that better describe their plumage and other characteristics. The group said it will prioritize birds whose names trace to enslavers, white supremacists and robbers of Indigenous graves. Among them is one of the most famous birders in U.S. history, John James Audubon.

“There is power in a name, and some English bird names have associations with the past that continue to be exclusionary and harmful today,” the society’s president, Colleen Handel, said in a statement. “We need a much more inclusive and engaging scientific process that focuses attention on the unique features and beauty of the birds themselves.”

Sometime next year, the society is expected to appoint a committee to explore up to 80 new names. The move, at an organization known for its reluctance to rename birds, was surprising even to the activists within the group who requested it after a White woman in Central Park falsely accused a Black birder of assault in 2020. In a racial reckoning that shook the field of ornithology, the activists, most of them White, argued that the names of some birds were offensive to people of color.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: aos; audubon; birdbrains; birdnames; birdwatching; cancelculture; cancelled; colleenhandel; judithscarl; leftwingnuts; madness; ornithology; renaming; rewrite; waronbirds; waronhistory
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To: Altura Ct.

In a racial reckoning that shook the field of ornithology, the activists, most of them White, argued that the names of some birds were offensive to people of color.

I’m offended that people of color were not offended previously!

Film at 11!


61 posted on 11/01/2023 1:30:56 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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To: Dogbert41
"What will they name the Crow?"

It can't be "Black Bird".

Dumbo When I See an Elephant Fly

62 posted on 11/01/2023 1:32:47 PM PDT by guest7
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To: Ed Condon

Whole state and federal laws might have to be modified as they list birds that might have these “racist” names. I expect there might be delays and push back as the governments might not be in a hurry to have whole laws changed and rewritten just for woke purposes!


63 posted on 11/01/2023 1:34:06 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (A horrible historic indictment: Biden Democrats plunging the world into war to hide their crimes!)
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To: Altura Ct.

So...Red-Winged African-American Bird? BIPOC-capped Chickadee?


64 posted on 11/01/2023 1:34:36 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold eday in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Was Lord Baltimore some kind of a racist or sexist

He was a White Christian Man ...

What we're seeing here is Ethnic Cleansing, a precursor to Genocide.

Have no doubt about it: the goal of anti-White rhetoric, the purpose of "diversity, inclusion, and equity", is the extermination of White people. The DIE crowd intends to KILL YOU.

Plan accordingly.

65 posted on 11/01/2023 1:36:59 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: granite

Turdus migratorius.


66 posted on 11/01/2023 1:37:12 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold eday in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Chgogal
he country is run by rabidly stupid mental midgets.

NO. See my previous post.

The country is run by rabidly genocidal monsters.

67 posted on 11/01/2023 1:37:46 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Altura Ct.

Are colonizers Lewis and Clark included?


68 posted on 11/01/2023 1:38:58 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold eday in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Ed Condon
AOS President Colleen Handel, Ph.D. ... AOS Executive Director and CEO Judith Scarl, Ph.D.

These aren't stupid people. They're EVIL people dedicated to the extermination of White people. The most appalling part is that they themselves are White.

I'm tempted to suggest that allowing women to assume positions of power and authority is just a bad idea ...

69 posted on 11/01/2023 1:42:08 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: metmom
The left is trying to eradicate anything that connects us to our past and gives our culture identity.

THIS!!!!

70 posted on 11/01/2023 1:42:41 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Altura Ct.

John Audubon owned slaves. Maybe the American Ornithological Society (named after colonizer Amerigo Vespucci, ultimately) is out to get them.


71 posted on 11/01/2023 1:43:21 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold eday in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Altura Ct.
"...some English bird names have associations with the past that continue to be exclusionary and harmful today..."

There is no such continuance. Those names, whatever they may be, were never considered "exclusionary and harmful" in the past. You made that sh!t up just last week.

72 posted on 11/01/2023 2:11:04 PM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: Altura Ct.

Papa ooma mow mow, papa ooma mow mow, bird is the word


73 posted on 11/01/2023 4:32:44 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Altura Ct.

The Titmouse must be renamed because it makes reference to mouse tits which as we know are very very small. This name is offensive and humiliating to many small-breasted women.


74 posted on 11/01/2023 5:32:46 PM PDT by Clarancebeaks
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To: Altura Ct.

I hope people keep a record of the real names after we throw these knot heads out of the country so we can change the names back.


75 posted on 11/01/2023 5:35:58 PM PDT by dforest
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To: Altura Ct.

They still gonna crap on your windshield


76 posted on 11/01/2023 5:39:54 PM PDT by Palio di Siena (P01135809)
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To: Altura Ct.
And the Oldsquaw....?


77 posted on 11/01/2023 7:15:27 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold eday in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Altura Ct.
I really despise these people.

Me too.

But they keep winning because nobody ever tells them to STFU and f*** off.

78 posted on 11/01/2023 7:18:41 PM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President. A conservative who fights and wins..)
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To: Altura Ct.

A fellow named Mr. Jinping has requested that the yellow-bellied sapsucker be renamed to Xi-Ji-Pi (or Ding-Dong-Doozie).

79 posted on 11/01/2023 7:30:52 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: Altura Ct.

I have two degrees in zoology. F*** THESE BASTARDS. I WILL NEVER CHANGE THEUR NAMES. THE BIRDBRAIMS AREN’T IN THE BIRDS.


80 posted on 11/01/2023 7:33:28 PM PDT by ZULU (HOOVER, FREEH, MUELLER, COMEY, WRAY, SUCCESSION OF STATIST TRAITORS)
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