Taxacom: Policing the scientific lexicon: The new colonialism?

[Stephen Thorpe]

 I think that the woke agenda is starting to undermine itself now, by going too far and also by blatant weaponisation of terms like antisemitism for obvious self-interest agendas. I'm not talking directly about taxonomy or nomenclature here, but about the broader issue. A current nontaxonomic example concerns British musician Roger Waters, who has been branded as an antisemitic nazi by the Israel Lobby. In fact, Waters' father was killed by the Nazis when Waters was still a baby. What Waters is doing is criticising the human rights policies of Israel in relation to the Palestinians, comparing Israel's treatment of Palestinians with the Nazis treatment of the Jews. Anyway, let's just hope that taxonomy can keep out of woke politics. It has no place in science. One man's human rights advocate is another man's antisemite. Therefore, many patronymic names will be offensive to somebody, but it is best ignored. I'm not sure if there are any patronyms for Roger Waters, but there is Cephalonomia pinkfloydi and Synalpheus pinkfloydi, patronymic for Waters' former band, Pink Floyd. The Jewish Lobby would probably find these names "offensive"!
Stephen
    On Thursday, 15 June 2023 at 02:43:34 pm NZST, Dilrukshan Wijesinghe via Taxacom <taxacom at lists.ku.edu> wrote:  
 
 Policing the scientific lexicon: The new colonialism?
 Rohan Pethiyagoda
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doi.org/10.11646/megataxa.10.1.4
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