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British Museum Pushes Founder Off His Pedestal
The British Museum has removed a bust of its founder from prominent display, citing a move to acknowledge the museum’s historical relationship with slavery. Sir Hans Sloane funded his collection of artefacts, books and curiosities with profits from his wife’s sugar plantation. Shortly before his death in 1753, he bequeathed many of his belongings to the nation, and 71,000 of them formed much of what would stock the British Museum.
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The museum’s director says, “We must not hide anything” but that’s exactly what they are doing. Hopefully in years to come no one will ask who founded and financed all the wonderful institutions that are now bowing to the Woke because at this rate the answers will have been forgotten.
What next? The renaming of Sloane Square?
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The museum’s director says, “We must not hide anything” but that’s exactly what they are doing. Hopefully in years to come no one will ask who founded and financed all the wonderful institutions that are now bowing to the Woke because at this rate the answers will have been forgotten.
What next? The renaming of Sloane Square?
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So his wife's family was a slave owner. So what? He also did a great deal of good. I most certainly do not approve of slavery, but on the basis that everyone is tainted you would have to get rid of almost everyone in any position in the last 200 years. Er - George Washington anyone? It's History - get over it, leave it all as it and think whatever you want to think - then...
22:15 Thu 27th Aug 2020
every white britain should give there house and all there belongings to an african family and and any indians, restitution for our ancestors evil acts...you may have come from poor stock, even a serf once or lower..
your white and should be ashamed of it, collective guilt see, once we all forfeit our possesions, our sins will be washed away, truth will set us free "hallelujah"
your white and should be ashamed of it, collective guilt see, once we all forfeit our possesions, our sins will be washed away, truth will set us free "hallelujah"
I prefer my solution Fender. We would be better off closing down every British institution that has now been corrupted by the globalist wokery zealots. All of them from the British Museum, to the National Trust. Defund and dismantle them, and deny the parasites that have parachuted themselves in a platform to sneer, and the funds to multiply like the cancer they are. They have seized our heritage and vomit on our achievements. They have even polluted our charitable institutions. Shame on us for allowing it to happen.
//Don’t you read? “ Sir Hans Sloane funded his collection of artefacts, books and curiosities with profits from his wife’s sugar plantation.”
These people were SLAVE OWNERS.//sic
If you read what I said....I agree with you. Close the vile "institution" based on slavery down. Perhaps the bame freedom fighters can do something about the place. I do hope so.
These people were SLAVE OWNERS.//sic
If you read what I said....I agree with you. Close the vile "institution" based on slavery down. Perhaps the bame freedom fighters can do something about the place. I do hope so.
Correct theland, the masters love legions of mind slaves locked into their system and reliant on "benefits" and handouts. Meanwhile the out of touch ancient museum thinks that it is a good marketing ploy to feature the slavers that were in control of Egypt many years ago, and accumulated vast wealth and golden symbols based on the toils of their slaves. The sooner it is shut down, the quicker we will all learn to share and get along jolly well.
allenLondon - // These people were SLAVE OWNERS. //
They were - but none of this is going to alter that simple fact.
The way forward is not to whitewash (!) history and try and pretend that our ancestors behaved in a way that we find unacceptable today, because that simply denies history, which is neither feasible, or a particularly good idea.
If we were glorifying the contribution of slave labour to the contents of the Museum, then fair enough - but no-one would wish to do that either.
It is perfectly possible to accept and acknowledge that historically, people behaved in a way that today would not be acceptable, but editing it or airbrushing it does not make it un-happen, so we must simply acknowledge it for what it is - part of our history.
What these self-righteous attention-seekers don't appear to grasp is that pointing out our historic failures does not make us modern-day failures. History is about learning from the past, so we can do better in the future.
Shall we raze Auschwitz to the ground? After all, it is a colossal monument to the colossal inhumanity that occurred in the world's history, and unlike most of slavery, it is will within modern memory.
No, we leave it there to remind us of just how evil mankind can be - which assists in preventing a recurrence of such barbarity and inhumanity.
The German people do not try and gloss over it, or pretend it didn't happen, or adopt faux-shame for their parents and grandparents - they accept that history is just that - history, good and bad, and airbrushing and editing does not mean that history is where we came from, good and bad, and you can't cherry-pick the bits that allow you to polish your right-on halo, you have to take all of it.
Ironically, virtually every exhibit in the Museum has been taken from its rightful place and the descendants of its rightful owners, so are we going to remove everything in the Museum, or just pretend we won't mention the funding issue.
Selective virtue-signalling is a stain on our modern culture, and the sooner these self-aggrandising morons develop a sense of perspective, and a sense of actual history, not the bits that suit them, the better the world will be for a dose of adult honesty, not adolescent 'look at me' stupidity.
They were - but none of this is going to alter that simple fact.
The way forward is not to whitewash (!) history and try and pretend that our ancestors behaved in a way that we find unacceptable today, because that simply denies history, which is neither feasible, or a particularly good idea.
If we were glorifying the contribution of slave labour to the contents of the Museum, then fair enough - but no-one would wish to do that either.
It is perfectly possible to accept and acknowledge that historically, people behaved in a way that today would not be acceptable, but editing it or airbrushing it does not make it un-happen, so we must simply acknowledge it for what it is - part of our history.
What these self-righteous attention-seekers don't appear to grasp is that pointing out our historic failures does not make us modern-day failures. History is about learning from the past, so we can do better in the future.
Shall we raze Auschwitz to the ground? After all, it is a colossal monument to the colossal inhumanity that occurred in the world's history, and unlike most of slavery, it is will within modern memory.
No, we leave it there to remind us of just how evil mankind can be - which assists in preventing a recurrence of such barbarity and inhumanity.
The German people do not try and gloss over it, or pretend it didn't happen, or adopt faux-shame for their parents and grandparents - they accept that history is just that - history, good and bad, and airbrushing and editing does not mean that history is where we came from, good and bad, and you can't cherry-pick the bits that allow you to polish your right-on halo, you have to take all of it.
Ironically, virtually every exhibit in the Museum has been taken from its rightful place and the descendants of its rightful owners, so are we going to remove everything in the Museum, or just pretend we won't mention the funding issue.
Selective virtue-signalling is a stain on our modern culture, and the sooner these self-aggrandising morons develop a sense of perspective, and a sense of actual history, not the bits that suit them, the better the world will be for a dose of adult honesty, not adolescent 'look at me' stupidity.
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