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Can we call it something more neutral? That eñe gives ppl the wrong idea
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Is a Super El Niño coming? How it could shape your weather

www.usatoday.com

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Anonymous 30w

What wrong idea? It’s been called that for over 100 years

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Anonymous 30w

you can take it up w peru 🙄

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Anonymous 30w

It’s a Spanish word…

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 30w

It’s like how we’re not supposed to call diseases by their first documented locations or other stigmatizing details: monkey pox is now mpox and german measles is now rubella

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 30w

What’s stigmatizing about ñ in a weather pattern name?

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 30w

I wasn’t aware they renamed monkeypox because of that, I just thought mpox was the abbreviation 😭 I don’t think being associated with a disease is the same as a foreign-sounding name for a weather phenomenon

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Anonymous 30w

Once again asking what could be potentially stigmatizing about a Spanish name for a weather pattern. Spanish speakers control the weather?

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Anonymous 30w

Is there any evidence of people negatively associating El Niño with Peruvians or other Hispanic people? There have been plenty of bad hurricanes with white-sounding names. Katrina, Sandy, Harvey, etc.

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