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And then they came for the birds.

submitted by WittyUserName to whatever 2.9 yearsJun 16, 2021 19:07:17 ago (+18/-0)     (files.catbox.moe)

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As niggers worm their way into every facet of life, they will find something new to be offended by. Such as the names of birds.

"But overcoming those barriers will be daunting. As with the wider field of conservation, racism and colonialism are in ornithology’s DNA, indelibly linked to its origin story. The challenge of how to move forward is roiling White ornithologists as they debate whether to change as many as 150 eponyms, names of birds that honor people with connections to slavery and supremacy."

They will not be happy until we're utterly erased. Cue the automatic claims of fear and pain!

"For Newsome, community engagement manager for Georgia Audubon, the pain is real. When she first wore her organization’s work shirt, 'I felt like I was wearing the name of an oppressor,' she said, 'the name of someone who enslaved my ancestors.'"

Of course, no story about wokeness would be complete without whites terrified of losing everything.

"This spring, society president Mike Webster announced that the internal group responsible for bird names will now be guided by an advisory committee composed of people of different backgrounds — although 13 of the 17 advisers are White and the ethnicities of the four others have not been identified.

The new panel is 'not just because we want to feel good about ourselves,' said Webster, who is White. 'We see it [as] critically important to understanding and conserving birds. It’s critically important that we have a diversity of people out there doing it.'"

Does this inspire any new bird names for you? The Yellow-Bellied WebsterBitch, perhaps?

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Blacks people don’t go to the woods, of course they didn’t discover birds.