Birds, Progress, and the Opportunity Cost of Wokeism
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3 min readJun 17, 2021
Last week the Washington Post published an article called “The Racist Legacy many Birds Carry” with the subtitle “The birding community faces a difficult debate about the names of species connected to enslavers, supremacists and grave robbers.”
The piece makes the case that birding is riddled with racism and describes how many in the community are taking steps towards…
