{"id":596687,"date":"2021-07-19T10:36:21","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T14:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=596687"},"modified":"2021-07-19T10:36:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T14:36:23","slug":"asian-carp-renamed-because-you-know-thats-an-ethnic-slur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/asian-carp-renamed-because-you-know-thats-an-ethnic-slur\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Asian Carp\u2019 Renamed Because, You Know, That\u2019s An \u2018Ethnic Slur\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fasian-carp-renamed-because-you-know-thats-an-ethnic-slur%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=596687&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/carp-2.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Asian carp, brought to North America in the 1970s to eat algae in aquaculture ponds, is considered an invasive species that has been causing issues in the Mississippi river and reportedly migrating toward Lake Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>But some think the name is just mean, like calling the virus that causes COVID-19 the Wuhan Virus after the city in China where it first emerged.<\/p>\n<p>So the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has decided to rename the fish to simply \u201cinvasive carp.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to move away from any terms that cast Asian culture and people in a negative light,\u201d Charlie Wooley, director of the Great Lakes Regional Office for the service, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/business-science-environment-and-nature-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-a34e50fee7dfd335564728f0170dae02\">told<\/a> The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>The AP told a little story about how the name change came about.<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"12\">\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-59 Component-p-0-2-50\"><em>Minnesota state Sen. Foung Hawj was never a fan of the \u201cAsian carp\u201d label commonly applied to four imported fish species that are wreaking havoc in the U.S. heartland, infesting numerous rivers and bearing down on the Great Lakes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-59 Component-p-0-2-50\"><em>But the last straw came when an Asian business delegation arriving at the Minneapolis airport encountered a sign reading \u201cKill Asian Carp.\u201d It was a well-intentioned plea to prevent spread of the invasive fish. But the message was off-putting to the visitors.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Turns out Hawj\u2019s feelings were shared by the wildlife service, which quietly changed the species name in April. \u201cThe Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee, representing agencies in the U.S. and Canada that are trying to contain the carp, will do likewise Aug. 2,\u201d Wooley told the AP.<\/p>\n<p>Like the invasive carp, the Word Police are everywhere, swarming over language like gypsy moths. Wait, hang on, scratch that. Can\u2019t call them that \u2014 it\u2019s an \u201cethnic slur.\u201d Earlier this month, the Entomological Society of America, which oversees the common names of insects, dropped the name for the moth, as well as the gypsy ant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an ethnic slur to begin with that\u2019s been rejected by the Romani people a long time ago,\u201d society president Michelle S. Smith <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/science-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-18e74693eccc7d4a2d0a4ffeaf3691aa\">told<\/a> the AP. \u201cSecond, nobody wants to be associated with a harmful invasive pest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe society is taking a hard look at some of the more than 2,000 common insect names to remove derogatory and geographically inaccurate ones. About 20 years ago, a committee of fish experts renamed the jewfish into the goliath grouper,\u201d the news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Society <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entsoc.org\/better-common-names-project\">urged<\/a> everyone to get involved. \u201cBy participating in the Better Common Names Project and helping to change problematic common names of insects, you will help ensure that insect common names are respectful, inclusive, and descriptive of the insect. Using better common names will increase the effectiveness of communication with the public, enhance the reputation of entomology and entomologists, build a more inclusive discipline, and reduce harm to our members and non-members alike,\u201d they said on their website in a post headlined \u201cBetter Common Names Project.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Social media, of course, had a field day with the name change for the invasive fish. \u201cBlack coffee is next,\u201d one Twitter user said, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/07\/18\/asian-carp-rebranded-because-tag-is-deemed-offensive\/\">according<\/a> to The New York Post. \u201cChinese food, Mexican food, white lies, brown sugar, calling ships her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c1980: dungeons and dragons is going to turn the kids into Satanists,\u201d another user said. \u201c2021: Asian carp will turn the kids into racists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Asian carp, brought to North America in the 1970s to eat algae in aquaculture ponds, is considered an invasive species that has been causing issues in the Mississippi river &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}