Well maybe getting “corrected” on something I already know and said by someone who knows the bare minimum about taxonomy is a little obnoxious.
I don’t really care to police my tone when the person I’m responding to can’t even be fucked to read what I wrote before jumping in and acting like they know better.
For just no-frills explaining why the line in the OP made no sense? Should I have thrown in an “lol” or an “uwu” as a tone indicator so you didn’t read it in the least charitable way?
But if you actually want snippy: the line is utter bullshit. “Western scholars” is used as a weasel word, when taxonomists obviously know the difference between discovery and description; they receive specimens discovered by someone else literally all the time as part of their job. No taxonomist in 2026 (or “Western scholar”, whatever the fuck that means) would think the okapi was “discovered” in 1901 or even by 19th-century Europeans who wrote about it; to assume otherwise is anti-intellectualist “stupid science bitches”-level horseshit and reflects zero understanding of taxonomy as a field.
But otherwise, if “Western scholar” means “France 24 Twitter person”, then cool. Weird choice of phrasing, but it’s accurate.
Well maybe getting “corrected” on something I already know and said by someone who knows the bare minimum about taxonomy is a little obnoxious.
I don’t really care to police my tone when the person I’m responding to can’t even be fucked to read what I wrote before jumping in and acting like they know better.
Nah man, you started snippy
For just no-frills explaining why the line in the OP made no sense? Should I have thrown in an “lol” or an “uwu” as a tone indicator so you didn’t read it in the least charitable way?
But if you actually want snippy: the line is utter bullshit. “Western scholars” is used as a weasel word, when taxonomists obviously know the difference between discovery and description; they receive specimens discovered by someone else literally all the time as part of their job. No taxonomist in 2026 (or “Western scholar”, whatever the fuck that means) would think the okapi was “discovered” in 1901 or even by 19th-century Europeans who wrote about it; to assume otherwise is anti-intellectualist “stupid science bitches”-level horseshit and reflects zero understanding of taxonomy as a field.
But otherwise, if “Western scholar” means “France 24 Twitter person”, then cool. Weird choice of phrasing, but it’s accurate.
Yeah see this is what I’m talking about, you would benefit from going on a walk or something