🔴 Many plant names are offensive: botanists will vote on whether to change them

“One of the proposals aims to rename an estimated 218 species whose scientific names are based on the word caffra and various derivatives — which are ethnic slurs often used against Black people in southern Africa — and to replace it with derivatives of ‘afr’ to instead recognize Africa.”

https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-02337-1

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