From the wonderful world of fisheries and wildlife, we have this trio of items showing what can happen when folks have too much time on their hands. Earlier this year, the Committee on Names of Fishes, a seven-member joint committee of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists and the American Fisheries Society, unanimously agreed to recommend the common name of Ephinephelus itajara be changed because that common name might be considered offensive to some people. So from now on, Ephinephelus itajara will no longer be called a jewfish. Instead of the name the monster grouper has carried for more than a century, and a name that even the AFS admits has never been used offensively, the jewfish will get a new common name.
Someone has a twisted sense of humor, here.
Either that, or they need some sensitivity training. Goliath, for those of you who missed or forgot your Sunday School or Temple lessons, was a Philistine giant with a mighty dislike of Jews. A young Jewish shepherd boy named David accepted the challenge and used a smooth rock in his slingshot to kill the feared Goliath. So the AFS is renaming the jewfish by giving it the name of a Jew-killing Philistine. Not too many people would find the name of a major religion to be offensive.