Taxacom: Policing the scientific lexicon: The new colonialism?

Thu Jun 15 01:11:58 CDT 2023

.....and what about the spider genus Pinkfloydia.....

Alfredo

Il gio 15 giu 2023, 08:06 Stephen Thorpe via Taxacom <taxacom at lists.ku.edu>
ha scritto:

>  John,I think the list server may have formatted my reply to you badly, so
> I'll try again. You say
> Yeah - best to keep examples taxonomic. I never knew that there was a
> singular 'The' Jewish Lobby. Never knew that they all thought alike
> My example was taxonomic. Accusations of antisemitism against Waters
> relate specifically to Pink Floyd's 1979 concept album "The Wall", so those
> two pinkfloydi patronyms are likely to be in the offensive category
> according to some people who misunderstand that the album was satirising
> fascism. Some lyrics from the album:
> That one looks Jewish and that one's a coon, who let all this riff-raff
> into the room, there's one smoking a joint and another with spots, if I had
> my way I'd have all of them shot!
> There is a specific entity called the Israel Lobby, to which I was
> referring. You can look it up on Wikipedia.
> Anyway, the point is that there is always going to be passionate debate
> and irresolvable disagreement over what names are offensive and why. Do we
> really want this political debate to destabilise nomenclature?
> Stephen
>     On Thursday, 15 June 2023 at 05:46:54 pm NZST, Stephen Thorpe via
> Taxacom <taxacom at lists.ku.edu> wrote:
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> My example was taxonomic. Anyone who calls Roger Waters antisemitic is
> likely to find pinkfloydi patronyms "offensive".
> Stephen
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>     On Thursday, 15 June 2023 at 05:05:07 pm NZST, John Grehan <
> calabar.john at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  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:
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> Actually I find offensive your speech rather than names like pinkfloydi. I
> would be happy if different metaphors will be used in the discussion.
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> On behalf of the World Government,
> Pavel
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> On Thu, 15 Jun 2023, 07:12 Stephen Thorpe via Taxacom, <
> taxacom at lists.ku.edu>
> wrote:
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> >  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:
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> >  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.
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> > Priyantha
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