The A. hitleri beetle has been collected to near-extinction by neo-Nazis, sparking a fierce debate among taxonomists over whether to change offensive species names.
“These names have always been unacceptable,” said Washington, who is Black and has made a career of identifying the semantics of inequality and injustice in science and other fields. “They were selected by White males who had the power to issue them without thought or regard to others. The people who found them offensive did not have a voice or were ignored.”Washington rejects the argument that nomenclature changes will cause instability.
[the American Fisheries Society] officially changed the name from squawfish, a term that is insulting to Native American women.”
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