Taxacom: Policing the scientific lexicon: The new colonialism?

[Stephen Thorpe]

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Israel lobby in the United States - Wikipedia

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My example was taxonomic. Anyone who calls Roger Waters antisemitic is likely to find pinkfloydi patronyms "offensive".
Stephen



    On Thursday, 15 June 2023 at 05:05:07 pm NZST, John Grehan <calabar.john at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 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
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> doi.org/10.11646/megataxa.10.1.4
> Not sure if this has been seen/commented on.
>
> Priyantha
>
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