Taxacom: botanical names with racist history

[Frederick W. Schueler]

On 22-Jul-24 8:03 a.m., Stephen Thorpe via Taxacom wrote:
> Why aren’t gay people offended by the genus name Homo? Perhaps, to be consistent, we will need to rename Homo sapiens! Perhaps Nonbinary sapiens would be suitable?! The whole thing is absurd!

* and think how offended Syrians must be to find, in the midst of all 
the wars and poverty and explosions and kinky governments they are 
already enduring, that a bitter-tasting North American Milkweed is 
mis-denominated Asclepias syriaca!

fred.
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