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  1. Lerxst

    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    Try this one: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d418aae4-a28c-43e9-8713-91cb3139b9e2/files/spc289k55v
  2. Lerxst

    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    I agree. But, rules and guidelines change. Nothing is set in stone. All that needs to happen is that a critical mass of postmodernists get into the ICZN. They do not care about science's practices as they relate to priority, rules, rights, etc., for these are merely tools of 'white colonialism'...
  3. Lerxst

    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    Yet. http://ir-library.mmarau.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/13854/Eponyms%20have%20no%20place%20in%2021st.pdf?sequence=1
  4. Lerxst

    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    Well I just took the time to write the most thoughtful, polite, yet direct statements I could on this, and submitted them at the AOS site mentioned above. I'm asking that they simply go back to the NACC's reasonable proposal. Negotiate. Be moderate. Give both sides some ground. And remember that...
  5. Lerxst

    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    This is excellent. Thank you for all your work and leadership on this.
  6. Lerxst

    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    Thanks. That was outstanding.
  7. Lerxst

    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    Can you describe it or post the text here for those of us that do not use FB or X?
  8. Lerxst

    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    I thought of an interesting case study in this. Do you know John McWhorter? He is a self-described "liberal Democrat" and a professor of Linguistics. He is also black. He is the author of a book called "Woke Racism" which is very critical of the entire woke (his word choice) worldview. Is his...
  9. Lerxst

    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    Practically speaking, that is good advice. Which is why I have tried to avoid using that word here unless we are specifically talking about the word (which I would rather not do). Again, practical good advice, but the entire debate is 100% politically loaded thanks to the forces that have...
  10. Lerxst

    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    I think that is mostly correct, except for: (1) some people on the left still use the term to favorably describe their worldview (as in the "9 rules for woke birders" article - you realize that is a "pro-woke" piece, right?) and (2) it isn't fair to associate it with liberalism. There are plenty...
  11. Lerxst

    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    And many liberals, such as Bill Maher. Some people want this all to be "W-word" vs. MAGA (another label some are quite fond of using). It is hardly that simple.
  12. Lerxst

    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    I'm not interested in labeling people, but trying to refer to the ideology that is driving this decision. We have no choice but to affix monikers if we want to converse. If you want to see labeling go off the rails, visit the Bird Names for Birds site and see how often they use the label "racist."
  13. Lerxst

    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    Yes, understood, but I'll ask again. What term should we use when we want to refer to the political philosophy of the people who invented and use the term themselves? As in "Nine rules for the woke birdwatcher"... ? I'd really like to know, because my goal is to find an accord, not make the...
  14. Lerxst

    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    I agree 100% that name-calling isn't effective. I try to refrain from doing so. It is bad form and it only hurts your cause. But people on the right or in the middle didn't invent the term "woke" - the left did. And they have used it plenty of times themselves to label their own political...
  15. Lerxst

    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    John Boyd, who manages the Taxonomy in Flux site, has expressed his support for the petition. http://jboyd.net/Taxo/changes.html
  16. Lerxst

    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    On the main page: Initial Supporters Include: Jon Dunn Please read Jon Dunn's comments here: Changing Eponymous Names
  17. Lerxst

    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    I call sarcasm.
  18. Lerxst

    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    The following was just posted by Jon Dunn:
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