WaPo reporter loses his mind--sees some birds as racist

"You lookin' at me?"

If everything is racist, nothing is racist. At least not by any normal definition of the word: "a person who is prejudiced against or antagonistic toward people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized." [Online Dictionary]

Ironically, the definition seems to hold more toward people on the Left who currently show prejudging and antagonism toward White people, particularly men. This is often a technique used by White people to feel superior to other White people and covertly shout their virtue to the world of woke.

But now we have a Washington Post reporter who has decided that it's time for cancel culture and its latest targets are "racist" birds.

Birds.

The Post ran a totally ridiculous report on Thursday, titled "The racist legacy many birds carry." The story focused on the "birding community," which is currently racking it's 23 cumulative brain neurons in a debate "about the names of species connected to enslavers, supremacists and grave robbers."

"Corina Newsome is a Black ornithologist, as rare as some of the birds she studies," Post environmental justice reporter Darryl Fears wrote, obviously focusing on Newsome's skin color because that's the way racist "justice reporters" see everything--in terms of skin color. 

Fears began his piece noting that Newsome was  hired to "break down barriers" at the Georgia Audubon nature preserve. Bird barriers.

"But overcoming those barriers will be daunting. As with the wider field of conservation, racism and colonialism are in ornithology’s DNA, indelibly linked to its origin story. The challenge of how to move forward is roiling White ornithologists as they debate whether to change as many as 150 eponyms, names of birds that honor people with connections to slavery and supremacy."

Fears wrote that birds such as Bachman’s sparrow and Wallace’s fruit dove "bear the names of men who fought for the Southern cause, stole skulls from Indian graves for pseudoscientific studies that were later debunked, and bought and sold Black people."

Gee, can we cancel all of history while we're at it? Every person in history is an imperfect creation and has their faults.

The best use of Fears' article is that it makes for an excellent birdcage liner.

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