>For Newsome, community engagement manager for Georgia Audubon, the pain is real. When she first wore her organization’s work shirt, “I felt like I was wearing the name of an oppressor,” she said, “the name of someone who enslaved my ancestors.” >“Conservation has been driven by white patriarchy,” said J. Drew Lanham, a Black ornithologist and professor at Clemson University in South Carolina, “this whole idea of calling something a wilderness after you move people off it or exterminate them and that you get to take ownership.” >Wang, an Asian American graduate student at the University of Hawaii. “They are also a reminder of how Western ornithology, and natural exploration in general, was often tied to a colonialist mind-set of conquering and exploiting and claiming ownership of things rather than learning from the humans who were already part of the ecosystem and had been living alongside these birds for lifetimes.” LMFAO this is hilarious. Can you fucking imagine having so much free time and so few worries in your life that you can sit around thinking about birds and racism all fucking day? These people need laborious jobs that are actually productive so they will stop shitting useless philosophies out of their idol shit for brains. These are the kind of retards that need to be put on assembly lines assembling parts for furniture or something where they can actually contribute to society.