On Thursday, a major birding society will discuss how how to go about changing potentially offensive bird names. There's resistance to the original plan to rename all birds named after people.
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Every single name? So many scientists and creatives and normal people who have had animal species named after them. In North and South America, many of them were people of color. Wouldn't throwing out ALL the names be pretending the history of science never happened?
You know, I can understand naming, say, a bacterium after a person who first discovered it vs. a bird, which was definitely fucking not first discovered by whatever white guy
Yeah, I mean this is really nibbling around the edges. Focusing on increasing bird numbers, educating cat owners, etc. Those are topics worth tackling, not worrying about dead guys.
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