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The woke culture war never sleeps, it only grows more insane by the day. After tearing down statues and renaming high schools, leftists have moved on to renaming birds.
When you run out of people to cancel, you have to cancel the birds.
Today the American Ornithological Society (AOS) announced that in an effort to address past wrongs and engage far more people in the enjoyment, protection, and study of birds, it will change all English bird names currently named after people within its geographic jurisdiction.
Ornithologists have long grappled with historical and contemporary practices that contribute to the exclusion of Black, Indigenous, and other people of color, including how birds are named. For example, in 2020, the AOS renamed a small prairie songbird found on the Great Plains to “Thick-billed Longspur.” The bird’s original name—honoring John P. McCown, an amateur naturalist who later became a general in the Confederate Army during the U.S. Civil War—was perceived as a painful link to slavery and racism.
Today, the AOS is taking decisive action to reframe the issue of birds named after people altogether.
Dozens and dozens of birds will be canceled. People are racist. All people. And so naming birds after people just perpetuates racism.
Birds that will be renamed include those currently called Wilson’s warbler and Wilson’s snipe, both named after 19th century naturalist Alexander Wilson. Audubon’s shearwater, a seabird named for John James Audubon, also will get a new name.
Get ready to say goodbye to a lot of familiar bird names, like Anna’s Hummingbird, Gambel’s Quail, Lewis’s Woodpecker, Bewick’s Wren, Bullock’s Oriole, and more.
Finally the great avian oppression will end. Now we can move on to renaming microscopic organisms after members of the Black Panthers.
Then there are those parasitic organisms that grow into a wasp’s brain and make them crazy: Hamasicus Koranus….
LOL. I reserve the right to identify birds by whatever outdated names I want, using whatever outdated bird guides I choose. I hereby identify the AOS as a flock of common cuckoos.
Turkeys, all. (Jive turkeys?)
Yes, as if the AOS can impose their insanity on the rest of us. They may want to change bird names but they can’t.
We will erase the history of westernkind, the people who brought the gospel to the ends of the earth, made the modern world and who remain uniquely curious, inventive and creative among the nations of the earth. This great people preserved and studied ancient languages and antiquities of their own and other cultures, but now must be destroyed for envy.
Leave thing as they were quit trying to change the names of Birds just to be so P.C. about it and the Turkeys running everything into the ground over nothing
They could give the birds West African names that noone could understand (I was just reading about West African words in the 1800s last night 🙂
I’ve been watching some Nigerian TV shows recently They’re quality shows, although the one I’m watching now was made by Netflix and filmed in Nigeria, I think. The main language the characters speak is English, not Yoruba. I watched a South African series about a demure (and sexy 😛 )black housewife from a poor neighborhood who went on a quest to discover who murdered her young son. She went though incredible hardship but persevered and toughend up. She even killed four or five guys in the process. It had a shitty ending, though. After she endured all the twists and turns in her quest, she jumped off a roof and killed herself right in front of her sister, who was begging her not to. Don’t watch that one.
But do watch the movie, “My House.” It’s about a South Somalian couple who flee violence to become refugees in England, but some obscene supernatural being follows them and haunts their house. It’s really good.
I read the names of the actors and producers of movies made or set in sub-African countries and try to figure out which country it is. I’m getting better at it.:)
Of course, to the left being inclusive isn’t about including people, but all about excluding people, specifically YT. It’s part of their desire to erase Western Civ, but also partly just their zero sum mentality at work. For someone to be included, someone else must be excluded. Two cannot interact to the benefit of both. There must be an exploiter and an exploited, an oppressor and an oppressed.
How can someone be a “painful link to slavery and racism,” to someone who was never a slave, never even knew anyone who was a slave? They can’t. Such people are just being petty, vindictive, and infantile. They have no business in academics, or science.
The slave built monuments and pyramids of the Egyptians and Aztecs aren’t a “painful link” to slavery. Some bird named for the person who classified and documented it is. There are never “painful links” to BIPOCs’ near endemic practice of slavery, just when YT practiced it.
Oldthinkers unbellyfeel the new names but they are doubleplusgoodful.
In Africa they have the GO AWAY BIRD then they have The Sooty Oyster Catcher, Kittiwake(A Gull)kokako and the Ula-Ai-Hawani and the Red Bishop just to name aa few
Geographic jurisdiction? Don’t most birds beside owls and bald eagles fly South for the Winter? And were all those crows in that Hitchcock move, “The Birds”, pecking out people’s eye balls and pecking chicks’ faces just fighting oppression from evil whitey?
AOS is not an ornithological society, it’s just another left-wing group of misanthropes who want to impose their insanity on the rest of us. Those people don’t know shit about birds. I wonder if any of them eat chicken?
I bet that group of baby Hitlers wouldn’t object o the name “Martin Luther King Jr blackbird”
I notice AOS only objects to bird names with white American guys’ in them and not birds named after foreigners.
There’s no end to the crap lefties will come up with, is there?