racists birds

anatta said:
mindless troll..every time I think you have a brain you show that lacking.. my bad
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I know that you know what you are doing. You ain't fooling me. You might fool others.

Statements like this: "Fascist running their platforms". I think you know what you are typing. Nobody is that stupid.
 
anatta said:
According to The Washington Post, it's hunting season for cancel culture and its latest targets are "racist" birds.

The Post ran an expansive report on Thursday, titled "The racist legacy many birds carry," focused on the "birding community," which apparently is having a difficult debate "about the names of species connected to enslavers, supremacists and grave robbers."

"Corina Newsome is a Black ornithologist, as rare as some of the birds she studies," Post environmental justice reporter Darryl Fears began his piece, noting she was hired to "break down barriers" at the Georgia Audubon nature preserve.

"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."

Fears wrote that birds such as Bachman’s sparrow and Wallace’s fruit dove "bear the names of men who fought for the Southern cause, stole skulls from Indian graves for pseudoscientific studies that were later debunked, and bought and sold Black people."
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Is there anything that does not disturb you? Ignore this massive problem and it will just go away, This is more of "somebody somewhere".
 
AProudLefty said:
I know that you know what you are doing. You ain't fooling me. You might fool others.

Statements like this: "Fascist running their platforms". I think you know what you are typing. Nobody is that stupid.
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autocratic fascism -dispute it or STFU -and dont give me some dumb definitions
 
anatta said:
it was voted on, it's a democratic decision , unlike the autocrats running FB, Twitter etc
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Yeah, the bigots prevailed in closing down a private enterprise in their community on political grounds that had nothing to do with the product it marketed. As I said, you being on the side of the bigots are fine with it.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
You say at the same time you regressives claim that Trump is being taken out to the trash heap of history and is no longer relevant.

Consistency you cant manage.
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Cant manage in part because WOKE is a religion if we are bending over backwards to be charitable... A cult if we are not.
 
martin said:
Yeah, the bigots prevailed in closing down a private enterprise in their community on political grounds that had nothing to do with the product it marketed. As I said, you being on the side of the bigots are fine with it.
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It had nothing to do with the marketing, it had everything to do with Woke-a Cola corporative.
I'm not wasting time debating the Georgia voter law with you, but it was a democratic exercise to boycott Woke-a-Cola

compare that to autocratic cancel culture.
Big Tech simply decides on its own one is no longer entitles to political speech.
They banned talk of the China virus coming from Wuhan,and now it looks like it did.
But they dint want that debate , and simply cancelled it.

And yes I understand they can do it under current law, but the behavior is still fascist
 
anatta said:
According to The Washington Post, it's hunting season for cancel culture and its latest targets are "racist" birds.

The Post ran an expansive report on Thursday, titled "The racist legacy many birds carry," focused on the "birding community," which apparently is having a difficult debate "about the names of species connected to enslavers, supremacists and grave robbers."

"Corina Newsome is a Black ornithologist, as rare as some of the birds she studies," Post environmental justice reporter Darryl Fears began his piece, noting she was hired to "break down barriers" at the Georgia Audubon nature preserve.

"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."

Fears wrote that birds such as Bachman’s sparrow and Wallace’s fruit dove "bear the names of men who fought for the Southern cause, stole skulls from Indian graves for pseudoscientific studies that were later debunked, and bought and sold Black people."
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iu
 
AProudLefty said:
Getting suspended or banned from a platform for violating ToS is "autocratic fascism"? :thinking:
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the ToS are nebulous and unevenly enforced. many bans are simply because of politics
If we cant change Big Tech to a function like a utility platform, we have tongue tied otherwise viable debate
 
anatta said:
the ToS are nebulous and unevenly enforced. many bans are simply because of politics
If we cant change Big Tech to a function like a utility platform, we have tongue tied otherwise viable debate
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Trump had an account for many years.
 
anatta said:
Newsome was troubled when she first wore a work shirt that featured Audubon's name, Fears writing that her "pain is real."

"I felt like I was wearing the name of an oppressor, the name of someone who enslaved my ancestors, Newsome said. "I believe they should both absolutely change the name. It feels wrong to enter African American communities … celebrating [Audubon’s] name. It’s a reality I am wrestling with constantly."


While efforts to rename such birds and the National Audubon Society had faced resistance, there was apparently a paradigm shift following the viral Central Park incident in 2020, when a White woman called 911 on a Black birdwatcher she dubiously accused of threatening her and her dog.

"Within days of the incident in Central Park last year, Newsome helped organize a very public declaration dubbed Black Birders Week — an event that quickly became a viral movement," Fears reported. "By happenstance, it took place amid nationwide demonstrations and calls for racial justice following George Floyd’s death under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer."

(another lunatic)
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Fuck her feels. Do something else then, bitch. Go dig a ditch or something. Owait, that's like..work?!
 
anatta said:
jurisdictions frequently partake of boycotts.. try again
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After two tries you still fail to see the important difference between a boycott and a legal ban, so no point in trying again.

I'll pose this observation instead. If the Founders had thought the people could be trusted with preserving their liberties on their own there wouldn't be a Bill of Rights. Without it, we probably would have voted
away our freedoms a long time ago.
 
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