Anonymous #1 4w

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 OP 4w

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

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Anonymous OP 4w

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 #3 4w

it has a similar subconscious effect on people, as humans are associative beings (we majorly remember things via association to other things) obviously this by itself isn’t an issue, but you gotta remember the world we live in, and the conditioning they many people (if not most of us) are subject to during upbringing. I think the underlying point is to avoid any potential confirmation bias within people who already hold pre-existing biases and prejudices that witness terms like these

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Anonymous #4 4w

here’s a prominent example in the opposite direction (someone taking a non stigmatized name and attempting to stigmatize it): COVID-19->”china flu” or the even worse example that the president repeatedly made during the pandemic. Avoiding potentially stigmatizing names helps to avoid accidentally providing “ammunition” to those with pre-existing biases and prejudices, as it’s common for them to see certain phrases or words and think “see I was right”

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Anonymous #4 4w

(obviously not ammunition as in “they’re right”, but ammunition as in fuel for confirmation bias)

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Anonymous #4 4w

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 #1 4w

I mean…. as stupid as it is, there are some mfers who actually do believe the “weather control” conspiracies😭 but I was mainly thinking more subliminally, associating non-white sounding terms with what are seen as disasters, or times of hardship. I view it almost as a very subtle form of reaffirming white supremacy, because when the fuck have we seen a “hurricane washington” or “hurricane Elizabeth” obviously that impact won’t apply across the board, and any reasonable person wouldn’t adopt

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Anonymous #4 4w

Prejudice based off it, but it’s the combination of a plethora of subliminal forms of conditioning that collectively work to seed those beliefs into people, on top of the generational linkages that remain (passed down beliefs)

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Anonymous #4 4w

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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