Taxacom: Thank you re 'Cancel culture' vs 'Woke'

[TADickinson]

Thank you, Doug. I stand corrected. ---tad.

> Subject:
> Re: Taxacom: 'Woke' systematics? No, thank you.
> From:
> Douglas Yanega <dyanega at gmail.com>
> Date:
> 2022-02-09, 12:00 p.m.
>
> To:
> taxacom at lists.ku.edu
>
>
> On 2/9/22 8:37 AM, TADickinson via Taxacom wrote:
>> In my opinion, Mosyakin makes important and valid arguments against 
>> employing "...politically motivated censorship and totalitarian 
>> cleansing of scientific history, and of the biological nomenclature 
>> that reflects that history."
>
> A small correction; what you and Mosyakin are referring to is a 
> manifestation of "cancel culture", while "woke" is a separate cultural 
> phenomenon. Though the two may intersect, they are not directly 
> linked, and a person can easily be part of one cultural phenomenon and 
> not part of the other. 
[Wikipedia citations in the original omitted here]
>
> Otherwise, while it is potentially a manageable thing for peer review 
> to address such concerns going forward, we absolutely cannot 
> retroactively remove names that someone, somewhere, finds offensive; 
> there is no objective criterion for doing so, because "offensiveness" 
> is an entirely subjective thing.
>
> Peace,
>
> -- 
> Doug Yanega      Dept. of Entomology       Entomology Research Museum
> Univ. of California, Riverside, CA 92521-0314     skype: dyanega
> phone: (951) 827-4315 (disclaimer: opinions are mine, not UCR's)

  
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