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spiders
@spiders

wikipedians. and sci authors in general. when you write "quite possibly the first european to see this species", i need you to stop for a moment and read what you just wrote. and seriously ask yourself why its worth remarking on, who was the first european to see a species

i swear its like, ppl hear that "discovered" is a bad word to use when indigenous people already knew about a species, and so they just changed the wording slightly but still emphasize the exact same thing, the "explorer", the "discoverer", the "adventurer" whos seeing things "no Man has seen before"
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and like i think even using the most neutral phrasing of "first described [i.e. into the scienfific literature]" still has problems too. but at least its a bit more clear about what work the botanist ACTUALLY did- creating a formalized description/herbarium entry.

meanwhile "first european to witness x" is DEFINITELY not it.


RoxannaRachnid
@RoxannaRachnid

This is a big part of why I took a step back from researching folklore as I had been, too, as I increasingly realized how much of it was a big game of telephone from any original indigenous sources filtered through European or Americans who recorded their version of the stories.


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