The International Botanical Congress deals robustly with racism among plants and fungi
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- After six days of debate, the decision has been taken to remove racial slurs from Latin plant names…
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And THEY talk about WHITE fragility?!?!?🤔
And psychosis.... They project...
@@SF-jx6it 🤣🤣🤣
All this over a word that black people call each other constantly. We're just not allowed to say it.
Your comment is white fragility in action.
@@sparkswain2820 almost like it's narcissistic coercive control 🤔🤣
We live among idiots.
They all seem to comment here
We are outnumbered by idiots.
@@TJspaceman especially the non white ones
@@TJspaceman, you included.😆🖕😆
@@douglastobor7718You just proved me right
A "racist" tree .... we've reached the peak Idiocracy.😔
Footpaths are racist too.
And angling.
We reached peak idiocracy when they said you had to wear a mask to go on a plane but that you could take it off for snacks and meals and I guess, every time you took a sip of water
@@lolitapitpong3826 but most people went along with it.
The Countryside is also considered racist . 😂
No, not the tree, the nomenclature, which Simon is well aware of.
Presumably therefore "Nigeria" will need to be renamed!
Having worked there, it was commonly known amongst the ex-Pat staff as “Ni99er-area”
'Wakanda' is at my number one on the list of possibilities for new names
Peckham?
@@richardhockey8442 valhalla ? Oh thats already taken,
I work with some Turks, who told me, I now have to refer to their country as "Turkiye". I told them to pissiye offiye! Oh, and while I'm here, Kiev is pronounced Kiev. Not Keeeeeeeeeeeeeve.
I'm so glad that South Africa has solved its greatest problem, bollocks to food, houses, and jobs.
Don't be silly! Those problems are "hard" to solve...ain't nobody got time for that!
They're doing a great job right now dealing with the food crisis by procuring land from white people who make food. Leading to more food! Oh wait no actually leading to famine.
@@johnsmith-zy7xg Not hard for those who are living the real experience of it. 2 million farmers or so, who grow and raise food for 50 million Africans. Sort of like Zimbabwe, which used to be called The Breadbasket of Africa...but never mind that!
How bloody pathetic is this becoming
If it goes on another 50 years, it risks becoming positively silly.
It's like living Monty Python for real.....
@@rogershore3128 Coin to be made then . Remember Candid Camera. ?
@rogershore
The Ministry of Silly Walks doesn't sound like fiction any more.
How long before so wine claims that walking 'in a certain way' is offensive to the flat footed and that we have to start hiring 'gait diversity facilitators: ?
@@quantisedspace7047 It's really scary.....
Back in the day, scientists had to travel to the farthest corners or the Earth to discover new plants in order to deserve the privilege of naming a new species. Nowadays, non scientists simply have to 'discover' invisible racism and they are automatically gifted the power to rename anything as they please.
The social sciences were always soft and shaky, but it's beyond parody now. They exist to infect other humanities, and hard sciences where they can.
@@revolutionaryhamburger Well said.
Banning words because they sound like words that some feeble minded folk might be offended by, I have never heard such complete and utter bollocks!
It's because once people set out on a quest they don't stop even if they achieve the original goal. I heard someone referring to it as saint George syndrome. They start slaying dragons and when the dragons are gone they go for the second biggest animal and so on
It does seem to be rather niggardly-spirited.
The Police took my spades away and told me they were now racists and had to be destroyed, I'm now using a soil-turning-device from America, it looks the same but it is very different the man who sold me it informed me,
I use a spade to move my niger seeds about the garden 😮
I would just call a spade a spade.
Shovels of colour...@gary637
I had 13 cards Tekken away from me, out of a pack of 52.
@@quantisedspace7047 well obviously they are racist.
Apartheid was the best thing for Africa they never had it so good jobs, places to live, education , now look black outs, crumbling infrastructure, corruption and crime.
Some of them are starting to realise that.
And constant murders, amongst blacks.
Soooo.much progress!
Sounds like uk.
@@crisdeeming2758 it is now nothing but left in power from uniparty for last 27 years.
God Bless the old SA....May it rise again soon,stronger than EVER. GREETINGS FROM ENGLAND 🇬🇧
I'm really surprised that Arnold Schwarzenegger hasn't been cancelled yet.
Lol
🤣🤣🤣
Arnold was the one doing the canceling
He'll be back
We "won" the war, remember?
So, we're not speaking German and don't understand it
April Fools Day everyday with blacks....... Pansy plant next with the alphabet soup lot🌼🌻🌺
No blacks were involved with this decision.
They already banned sugar puffs, I find it funny they still have things like 2400 puffs on the side of vapes though. The divs running the show don't have a clue.
Bang goes fairy cakes
And puff pastry
It’s almost like they want to be despised
They'll only be despised by people with no power to affect them.
@@eadweard. so how do you account for their predicament then?.
Divide and conquer. Classic tactic
Oh no ' please
Surely being despised by people like you is a good thing?
Insanity
Oh golly, my Sambucus Negra is quaking in its planter!
Actually, that plant was discussed at the botanical congress!
@@HistoryDebunkedsimonwebb Apparently they looked at the crime stats and said we could keep Deadly Nightshade 🤣🤣🤣
Spanish for "black coffee". ❔😂😂
they had all better watch out i feel my red hot poker is getting its wild up.
Careful 'you might bring down an avalanche, snowflake
More funding will be needed, Mother Nature is a terrible racist. The clouds in the sky, white. The crest's of the waves in the English channel, white. Milk from British cows, white. The wool on English sheep, white. The cliffs of Dover, white...
The white cliffs of Dover...oooh you racist thing you.
Only British cows, right?
Sounds like something Hamza useless would say 😂
It's no longer a joke when they changed the name of Whitetown despite it's called because all the houses are whitewashed but deemed racists but Blackpool isn't.
@@MegaPhilmurray Vanilla ice cream white, despite Vanilla pods being black
R Whites lemonade is transparent.
Washing powder, talcum powder, flour, sugar, salt, lard......all white.
Everything is racist,
Everything.
I don't expect any plant names that white people could be slightly offended by to be changed. Are we going to rewrite african words that offend us? This is absolutely ludicrous and a total waste of resources. This virtue signalling has to stop. The Latin language is 2700 years old.
@@toomanyradsin2019 Sierra Leone ,known locally as White Man's Grave.
Black fragility, sounds about right. Thanks Mark Dice
Many years ago a white friend was working in a small bank in Malawi. At midday break a couple of his colleagues went into the vault to eat their
lunch and to keep cool. He asked if they thought it was a 'Cafeteria'. Later in the day he received an official twenty four hour order to leave the country.... pronunciation is everything.
That is actually very funny!
Kaffirteria
@@TP-om8of
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😂😂😂😂
So are we going to have to nan the word cafe now?
At this point, the only thing you can do is laugh
Just not too loudly.
or fight,there is a distinct lack of use of that word lately except from one patriotic american man.
@@thomasrobert4654 No one is ever specific about what "fighting" might actually look like. Usually it's a euphemism for nail-bombing a gay pub or something equally idiotic.
@@eadweard. Any confusion is only in your own mind.
@@catsamazing338 I notice you're trying to avoid the question.
"You couldn't make it up"
"Ah but you can Nigel, you can".
You would have thought South Africa might have bigger problems like oh I don't know rampant corruption, the robbery and murder rate whatever the world has gone crazy.
I object to our trillions of tax dollars going to the worlds lsrs.
Thank goodness that this offensive nomenclature is at last being updated. I hope it will placate the millions of oppressed people throughout the world who have suffered for years under the pejorative Latin indexing of plants.
Hear hear!!!!!! 😂😂( Don’t forget the Romans were slave owners, but they weren’t racist!!!! Any colour would do!)
Wait until they clock the Latin word for black, they'll have a cardiac 😂😂
Helleborus niger, or the Christmas Rose, is racist, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic all at the same time. Needs to be banned. Abioya, Afsana, Jacob and the rest at the Environment Agency need to get their act together.
@@carlsummers2316 Nigreos??? Sounds racist to me, I think 🤔 😂😂😂
@@LindaGray-o7j
Its Nigra
Imagine how wonderful the UK and Europe will be in 20 years time
In 20-30 years all the believers will have moved on because by then UK is like the places they fled from in the first place 😂
@@ulrichenevoldsen8371Yes, once those who fund welfare have gone, or given up, and welfare is cancelled, after the freeloaders have gone to greener, more gullible, nations, our descendants will have to rebuild, pretty much starting from scratch. Maybe we'll dispose of universal sufferage for a bit!
Trees Against Hate🌴 Hope not Hibiscus 🌳 Shrubberies' Lives Matter☘️🤣
Vines not crimes....
Very witty chaps, or chapesses. When are plants going to be called homophobic! Or climate change deniers. ?
When they stop pumping out lovely CO2 @@edwinmorris1635
We need to make arborophobia illegal.
I’ve never known any people get so offended about anything as the black people , it would appear that every tenth word spoken offends them, no wonder people don’t hold them in much esteem.
'Don't make the black kids angry'
-Colin Flaherty
RIP Colin 🕯️♥️🙏
Never heard of him until this comment, but it appears his books are out of print :(
@@user-tm8jt2py3d He had a UA-cam channel. He was one of the first to be censored.
Whitch is impossible
He who controls the plants, controls the flowers. He who controls the flowers, controls the plants.
Stupidity at the highest level
Only the educated can reach this pinnacle.
True. All the most ridiculous ideology undermining western stability, from gender nonsense to anti-whiteness, was spawned by academics in 'social science' disciplines in western universities.
Ignorant people who misunderstand things let their gullibility guide their lives.
Simon should be the chief judge at the treason trials.
Better get rid of "caffeine", side line "black tea" as well just to be safe.
even black jack sweets have been re named !!!!!
@hazel I wonder if the actor J*ck Bl*ck will be cancelled.
Black sheep were excluded 40 years ago
@@hazelswain9768 I couldn't stand black jacks but that's because I'm racist like everyone else. I just looked them up and apparently they now contain soya so another reason to avoid them.
Rename the Black Country near Birmingham.🤣
They'll wanna ban the word caffeine next 🙄🙄🙄
Oh dear! I will be picking blackberries next month
That's nice. Your nose needs a rest.
Please! It will be "berries of colour" from now on.
World has gone mad god help us!
You can see why Black Folk would be upset. I mean, with them ALL having studied Latin 😂😂😂 it was only a matter of time before one spoke up.
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The "Gypsy" moth has now been officially re-named the Spongy Moth, for cultural sensitivity reasons... not joking.
Oh dear Lord! 😝
That was done by the Entomological Society of America, but no doubt the UK will copycat that soon.
Sponging moth ?
@@smogthehorse9409 Northern Rioting Moth...? Bus-Burning Moth?
@@WahrheitMachtFrei. Romania is more Eastern than Northern 😉
The idiocy of todays world never fails to astonish does it.
Oh brother. I thought I heard everything.
Are they burning down the libraries yet?
Thats' next!
@@valeriegrimshaw1365 Silly sods can't they burnt the bus in the wrong order 🤣
What's this about burning the bus in the wrong order ?
@@quantisedspace7047 Well, they would need the bus to get to the library 🤣
I wish the F word would be cancelled. I'm so sick of hearing it every day, everywhere. People who use it constantly have a lack of vocabulary. And it also shows a lack of intelligence! I don't think most of them know what it actually means, not that it would worry them though, even if they did!!
They aren't upset by these things, they love causing mayhem, which they grab every opportunity to cause
I wonder if Elephants and their ilk will no longer be pachyderms for the same reason.
Some people are very thin-skinned.
Rhinos aren't. And they got the Horn.
not when it comes to drugging raping and pimping out white children.
Black sheep, black birds, black pudding, etc etc etc. will this stupidity never end?
Seemingly not.
I remember when even the white bits were black.
@@quantisedspace7047 They were minstrels. 😉
Someone benefits financially.
Those that produce literature for academic entities .
Not necessarily; they just feel more self righteous.
They are obviously getting paid to do nothing
David Bellamy would be turning in his grave
I thought SIR Lenny Henry was keeping him alive for the sake of diversity.
Didn't they put David Bellamy in the compost heap?
@@dameceliamolestrangler3379 now pushing up daisies (Bellis perennis)
@@dameceliamolestrangler3379 Yes, cancelled for questioning the climate science consensus.
The RSPB has become ridiculous and cringingly woke. They published a predictable article in their magazine about racism among birdwatchers a couple of years ago and I very nearly cancelled my subscription.
Damn those closed cap mushrooms 🍄 😳 non inclusive 😅😂
Too much time on their hands
"The most effective way to destroy a people is to deny and obliterate their understanding of their own history" ~ George Orwell?
Maybe, but it’s 100% accurate whoever said that.
George Orwell was correct… colonialists did this to many African countries notably Congo…and it’s still going on via proxy wars etc
I can see how Webb has moved from Marxist Leninism to fascism... the empty propaganda just keeps on flowing.
When the situations becomes desperate ...quote George Orwell or perhaps Enoch....
@@brianperry Would you rather them quote Marx, Lenin or Stalin ?
They're changing bird names also. A committee is working on it. 🤷♂️
great comedy scope there with all those tits and black caps and lets not leave out those white throats etc etc.
got a warning off utube for this post not sure which section they are offended by the black the white or the tits.
“The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”-Milan Kundera
nothing about fighting again just another quote from another dead man most people have never even heard of.
@@thomasrobert4654 what is your point tough guy?
You know if we want to fix things then we need to make enough people understand what is happening, until then any 'fighting' is going to fail because the will of the population isn't there.
It is also the case that you don't know what people are doing, you see one quote which is part of a multifaceted approach and you only see it in isolation.
I don't have the imagination to imagine how limited it must be to be you.
It's already happening with slavery. The Ottoman Empire was based on the greatest and cruellest slave trade the world has ever known but you never hear about it, only about the trans-atlantic slave trade and no apology is demanded from Muslims. Simon's book, The Forgotten Slave Trade is all about this.
@@davidzack8735 yes, not just the Ottomans, there is no point in me saying more because it will vanish
@@RichardEnglander I'll try saying it then and see what happens. Muhammad himself owned and traded slaves, both black slaves and sex slaves. 1400 years of Muslim slave trading for which they have never apologised or feel shame for.
You're a Fungi Simon .......... I had to get that one in before I was beaten to it . 👍🏴
There's not mushroom for that kind of joke here...
🤣👍🏴@@martinjackman2943
This is becoming fun….
I tend to encourage our Native plants in my garden, and though there are also plants from other parts of the globe, they are controlled, as they tend to ‘spread’ like wildfire and take over.
The plant world teaches us so much!
How sad are those who have nothing better to do than look for things to rename. The pandemic of wokeness has destroyed common sense.
This must be the true definition of insanity.
Sometimes it's really hard to care !!
What a triumph for the anti racists
What’s going to happen to Montenegro? 😂
You mean Monteafricanamerico?
Russians on holiday😎
And Niger?
Books are kryptonite to some of our fellow humans.
In the middle 1980’s politically correct was just getting started. I was workin for a rehabilitation agency and the government demanded that we conform to dozens of rules that cost us hours of work in order to comply, but didn’t provide any money to pay us for it. Our agency director complained about “nigglling rules and niggardly reimbursements”. The New York State Quality of Care department investigated him.
I feel sorry for the guys called Nigel
a bit like all those lads called jason before their mothers found out that he batted for the other side.
I had a mate on Tyneside called Nigel. Guess his Nick Name. 😏
@Occident. No. Can't guess the nickname.
Did people make plans for him ?
The International Botanical Congress: Busy doing nothing. Working the whole day through. Trying to find lots of things not to do. Busy going nowhere... isn't it just a crime. They would like make us all unhappy but they simply do not have the time.
There was a story a while back of a guy at work hauled into HR and nearly sacked because he'd used the word 'niggardly' in a report. If you haven't encountered this word (and my browser autocorrect certainly hadn't), it is rather archaic, but its etymology is quite innocent.
People with too much time on their hands.
Goldfinches also love the sunflower hearts Simon!
This is true.
Goldfinches love Guizotia abyssinica ,Niger seed, too.
Hibbert has been pushing up the daisies for 200 years
No escuse for him not having 2024 political opinions, blue hair etc
Wonder if they'd mind being renamed 'snowflakes'?
That' term is already attached
With all this madness, I'm wondering if the licorice plant will be allowed to keep its name intact?
Lunatics are running the asylum.
This is beyond a joke.
I was brought up to call a spade a spade, obviously I will have to rethink this 😮
If this isn't psychotic I don't know what is!
It is about time we banned the use and sale of vinegar for the same exact reason.
whining old sourpuss
@@david.1964. It's going on my chips no matter who it offends! 🤣
😮 Vinegar, please!!
@@david.1964. salty Daffyd the deleter
@@simondjangothe4349 You're so easy to fool, Simon.
Having to rewrite lots of books isn't a problem for them, since they had a very strong yearning to do that anyway.
Academics like it because it gets them known about without actually having to achieve anything.
@@nickmiller76 like the covid experts.
Anyone else got a strong urge to grab a pen and pop down to the local library to revert the plant name so that its scientifically correct .?.
Nope.
Yup
@@eadweard.I find library police are often very unsavoury characters .
@@MegaPhilmurray it would make for interesting YT content to insist the librarians check all the books in the library for the banned word and remove those books from public consumption .
Unfortunately thats the way libraries are going.@@EvenBigger-Brother
Oh, FFS.... when will this nightmare end?
I live in Thailand. A common Thai citrus fruit, similar to Bergamot, used mainly in cooking called Makhrut in Thai has the English common name of kaffir lime, and you read this quite commonly in the English ingredient lists on Thai products. I’ll be interested to see whether the nomenclature insanity creeps this far East, but Asia is largely not infected by this PC disease yet, India possibly excepted.
It’s Orwell’s Ministry of Truth!
I have a plant in my home called The Wandering Jew...make up your own joke 😂
I hide it every time my German friend visits
@@georgelloyd9364 🤣
@@georgelloyd9364 never a truer word.
Thank God those people are out there looking after this stuff. Sometimes I lie awake at night thinking how I could possibly eat racist vegetables.
There was an effort to rename hunderds of birds in the America's as well, either because they had "offensive"names or named after"offensive" people.
@@miotyuori7331 flocking tits
We are currently living through a dark age of insanity
Robust does not mean useful or effective.
Just when you think things couldn't get more ridiculous they do.
Science is in general Eurocentric.
That's because people of European heritage invented the entire concept. So, looking at scientific names for plants and animals you can see that they are derived from "scientific Latin" (which can include some classical Greek).
The idea was that the educated classes, of whatever country, could use the same name in scientific papers and articles, and also grasp the meaning of a particular name. To be educated it was assumed a person would have a European background.
The fact is that the naming system in question is so entrenched that no tinkering around the edges will change the primary "affront". Which is that science is, fundamentally, a western endeavour and will remain so
Linnaeus will be turning in his grave. To think of the ignorance of the modern world. It is because none of us know Latin and Greek any more and all botanical and anatomical nomenclature is based on those two languages.
Any plants sound like “dole bludger” or “race baiter”?
Simon looks up curiously
I need a place to go to get away from these people.
The efforts made to be offended know no bounds 😂
Does this mean they will be renaming the country of Nigeria !!
How utterly pitiful.😩
Blackberry, blackcurrant, black thorn and black mulberry ?
The Mullahs of the City of Birmingham, will be changing it's name. To get rid of the offensive, ham.
I comment as a fully qualified horticulturist.
It’s totally unnecessary . The current plant nomenclature works just fine and
gives us important information about the plant. But if they succeed it will open the floodgates for renaming of all fauna too and then let’s consider all the Latin used in the medical world plus all the time that we will need to spend re-educating ourselves.
Maybe instead of names all plants could be numbered? Sort of like the system libraries use for books? Although of course certain numbers will have to be avoided.
Alison, you have far too much common-sense.You are living in another world!
Shock..Horror..Some people really need to get out more.....
Time for the men in white coats 😅😅😅
Best get rid of darkness and night in case anyone feels triggered.
Nigeria is going to have to do a lot of re-branding now ... ! 😂
What really upsets me is that I have become so used to this lunacy that I DID guess it. Monty Python would be proud.