Taxacom: Policing the scientific lexicon: The new colonialism?

[John Grehan]

Yeah - best to keep examples taxonomic. I never knew that there was a
singular 'The' Jewish Lobby. Never knew that they all thought alike.

On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 12:30 AM Pavel Gol'din via Taxacom <
taxacom at lists.ku.edu> wrote:

> Actually I find offensive your speech rather than names like pinkfloydi. I
> would be happy if different metaphors will be used in the discussion.
>
> On behalf of the World Government,
> Pavel
>
> On Thu, 15 Jun 2023, 07:12 Stephen Thorpe via Taxacom, <
> taxacom at lists.ku.edu>
> wrote:
>
> >  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 Cephalon
> >  omia 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
> > Fish Section, Australian Museum, 1 William St, Darlinghurst NSW 2010,
> > AustraliaWildlife Heritage Trust, 1 Lake Crescent, Colombo 00200, Sri
> Lanka
> > Email: rohanpet at gmail.com; https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Forcid.org%2F0000-0001-7215-9617&data=05%7C01%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7Cc97987fb350943f85ccd08db6d5e16bd%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638224023115896973%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=3TD9mGUWHgNTTLIZLbZIfr5i2LhvXcxnrVR5i7dr5K8%3D&reserved=0
> > doi.org/10.11646/megataxa.10.1.4
> > Not sure if this has been seen/commented on.
> >
> > Priyantha
> >
> > D. P. Wijesinghedpwijesinghe at yahoo.com
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