# Taxonomic names to be revised, because racism

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**Created:** [July 19, 2024, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taxonomic-names-to-be-revised-because-racism/1004455 "2024-07-19T09:57:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 19, 2024, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taxonomic-names-to-be-revised-because-racism/1004455/8 "2024-07-19T14:05:03Z")

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I wondered about that too. I know there’s been some discussion before here.

> [@What to do about species with offensive names?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-about-species-with-offensive-names/990650):
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> So TIL about this absolute shit show: It turns out that: A: In the 1930s an Austrian entomologist named a beetle after Adolf Hitler B: Said beetle is being hunted to extinction by Neo-nazis because of its name. So ignoring the absolute WTAF that there are enough neo-nazis around who are stupid enough to hunt an arbitrary beetle because its named for hitler (I mean its not actually a nazi beetle dumb-asses, just some dumb nazi in the 1930s decided to call it that), for it to be threat to the…

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