This Name-Changing Nonsense Is For The Birds. No, Really

So the radical woke Marxist progressives have gotten weak white liberals to cave to their demands and change the names of things like schools and sports teams, roads and towns, and other stuff because said radical woke Marxist progressives have way too much time on their hands and live with a natural sense of bitterness and a need for revenge.

For example, the NFL football team, the Washington Redskins, was named as a tribute to Native Americans, and nobody had a problem with the name until radical woke Marxist progressives came along, surrendered to idiocy, and changed the name of the franchise club to the Washington Nationals. Realizing that was boring and non-threatening in a seriously physical sport like football, they eventually changed it again to the Washington Commanders. Not as threatening as the Redskins, but hey, they made the dozen or so whiners go away and use their bitterness and revenge to prey on some other poor saps.

In the aftermath of St. George Floyd’s overdose death (according to the coroner’s report) in May 2020, more than 80 public schools across the United States voted to drop their namesakes, citing the person’s racist actions.

This name-changing nonsense is for the birds. No, really.

That appears to be the judgment of the American Ornithological Society, which said Wednesday that it will rename dozens of birds whose names were judged “exclusionary and harmful.”

“We need a much more inclusive and engaging scientific process that focuses attention on the unique features and beauty of the birds themselves,” said wimpy leftist simp AOS president Colleen Handel in a statement.

Handel also said, “There is power in a name … We need a much more inclusive and engaging scientific process that focuses attention on the unique features and beauty of the birds themselves. Everyone who loves and cares about birds should be able to enjoy and study them freely, and birds need our help now more than ever.”

People like Handel believe that a bird by any other name would sing as sweetly, yet this name-changing of birds is going to be seen as yet another false reminder that America is a systemically racist country, and it’s not a joyous event but rather, a sad state of affairs. No one knew anything of the names of these birds except the people with too much time on their hands.

Judith Scarl, executive director and CEO of AOS, said, “Exclusionary naming conventions developed in the 1800s, clouded by racism and misogyny, don’t work for us today, and the time has come for us to transform this process and redirect the focus to the birds, where it belongs.”

According to The New York Times, more than 100 species will be renamed. On a side note of interest, I have always felt that the best use of The New York Times is found at the bottom of a dirty birdcage. But I digress.

Say farewell to the “Audubon’s” shearwater, a tropical seabird widespread in the Atlantic Ocean that honors John James Audubon, a 19th-century slave owner and perhaps America’s best-known ornithologist.

Sure, Audubon was a gifted artist and naturalist who went to great efforts to record the birds of nineteenth-century North America. However, Audubon’s political views as a slave owner and opponent of abolition currently prohibit him from having a species named after him.

The National Audubon Society describes Audubon as “a genius, a pioneer, a fabulist, and a man whose actions reflected a dominant white view of the pursuit of scientific knowledge.”

John Kirk Townsend’s warbler and solitaire will be renamed. Townshend, who died in 1851, stole skulls from the graves of indigenous people.

According to the Daily Mail, the McCown’s longspur, named for Confederate General John P. McCown and now known as the thick-billed longspur, was previously on the chopping block.

“His contributions to ornithology, art, and culture are enormous, but he was a complex and troubling character who did despicable things even by the standards of his day.”

For several years, ornithologists have been buzzing about the drive to rename many of our feathery friends.

A petition was made to the AOS in 2020, alleging that the problematic bird names “commemorate men who participated in a colonial, genocidal, and heavily exploitative period of history.”

“These antiquated common names are harmful, unnecessary, and should be changed in the interest of a more welcoming ornithology,” according to the petition.

So, will the birds be renamed after politically correct celebrities?

Nope. To be safe, the community decided that all species named after people would be restyled.

The new technique, which only affects common English names and not Latin-based scientific names, will be based on the birds’ habitat or traits.

According to the Mail, the proposed name for the Audubon shearwater “will most likely be a reflection of its identifiable rounded wings or its geographical home near the coastline.”

The bottom line is all this renaming of things from our history, and our culture is the stuff of cultural Marxists who throughout their history have renamed such things so that the next generation of society does not know anything about them. They did this during their Marxist revolutions, something America has been in the middle of since the death of St. George Floyd.

Don’t laugh, but once these cynical individuals exhaust their list of animal names for all the different varieties of groups, they will turn their vengeance to human names.