I dunno, maybe I’m not in touch with the people the current names impact, maybe it’s a bigger deal than I’m aware of.
I appreciate you saying that. I’ve had a number of things in my life I couldn’t really understand until I met people affected by them and got better perspective on the issue.
I only looked up the owls on the list, and they are pretty obscure names, and obscure owls. You’d never find either without looking. But people are debating removing Audubon’s name from things, which is a huge name for anyone interested in birds. Some of these guys did do a lot of amazing things, but also some really negative things. But the project goal isn’t really too pick and choose who’s good or bad, just not to name any animal after a human. We’re all fallible, so just give it an animal name, not a human one.
Thank you for being level headed about all this though. It’s been interesting watching the down votes flowing through this thread, with it being worded as civilly as possible.