I mean, broadly I do agree with this. It's whatever. Maybe I was too harsh. I'm not trying to be critical of someone who's at least trying to make the world a better place, even if I think the way they're going about it is a little artificial and silly. I do think it's artificial and silly though.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (8 children)

It's a little silly but I'm for making these changes but the only real defense for keeping them is "it's always been that way!" which is just a flawed argument

[–] mo_ztt@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Hold on, lemme put on my downvote boots.

To me the defense is, if people are going around and saying that calling it an "Inca Dove" is racist or misogynistic and we all have to spend time and money and effort changing it around to something else, then it's going to hinder genuine efforts to resolve racism or misogyny because some people are going to start putting it alongside the "Inca Dove" thing into a category of "stupid stuff that doesn't matter." Changing "Oldsquaw" sounds great because that's actually racist. Changing the confederate name thing, eh, it seems weird to me but I can see it. "Inca Dove," alright now you're just making up stuff to get upset about and asking everyone else to play along with it and if they don't want to, they're some kind of bad person.

Just my opinion.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't think anyone is suggesting that Inca Dove is offensive so much as it's inaccurate, and while we're doing a mass name change, might as well change that one too.

Honestly, I wish we would just bite the bullet and do this with a lot of inaccurately named biochemistry stuff lol

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