Birds of the same feather fly together, so it’s no surprise that the usual suspects some would identify as “woke” are urging Audubon Societies across the United States to change their names. We don’t count ourselves in the field that it must clean up a fallen society by renaming everything: Columbia University must keep its name, despite the complicated but profoundly important legacy of Christopher Columbus, but in this case, the state and local teams rebranding are left alone in their pick, even as the national Audubon Society stands its ground.
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