minus-squaredingus182@endlesstalk.orgtoscience@lemmy.world•Botanists vote to remove racist reference from plants’ scientific nameslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down2·1 year ago“The effect of the vote will be that all plants, fungi and algae names that contain the word caffra, which originates in insults made against Black people, will be replaced by the word affra to denote their African origins.” linkfedilink
minus-squaredingus182@endlesstalk.orgtoPiracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Platforms wonder why piracy is spikinglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoJustWatch also has direct links to IMBD in their descriptions. linkfedilink
“The effect of the vote will be that all plants, fungi and algae names that contain the word caffra, which originates in insults made against Black people, will be replaced by the word affra to denote their African origins.”