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WeedleTLiar on scored.co
9 months ago7 points(+0/-0/+7Score on mirror)
>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.
Yeah, let's signal to every potential bird enthusiast that even if they discover and describe a brand new species of bird, they'll be erased from history if some faggot decides they don't like your politics 200 years after the fact. That should do it...
The comments are funny, too. The first half dozen are all "This is a great idea that will stop forcing marginalized folx out of birding", and then a couple hundred below those saying "WTF? No."
Yeah, let's signal to every potential bird enthusiast that even if they discover and describe a brand new species of bird, they'll be erased from history if some faggot decides they don't like your politics 200 years after the fact. That should do it...
The comments are funny, too. The first half dozen are all "This is a great idea that will stop forcing marginalized folx out of birding", and then a couple hundred below those saying "WTF? No."