Adrianna TanI just read that some British museums want to charge tourists more.
You know, for the privilege of seeing the things that they stole from us
tuban_muzuru... I sure wish the people so upset about the theft and misappropriation of Colonial Artifacts praised the British Museum's salvation of Asia's cultural artifacts from the utter destruction of the Red Guard's obliteration thereof.
How about a round of applause for Lord Elgin for saving the Parthenon sculptures from Athens' corrosive smog?
Codewizard@tuban_muzuru @skinnylatte which Lord Elgin are you referring to ??🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
The Parthenon sculptures were not stolen. Any questions, please re-read
Mab_813@tuban_muzuru @codewizard @skinnylatte
Oh look, a text by the British Museum itself that claims it's completely okay they own another country's cultural heritage, well I'm sure the museum is entirely objective here!
They even have a carefully worded statement about Elgin acting "with the full knowledge and permission of the legal authorities of the day in both Athens and London".
The legal authorities of that day being the Ottomans, just because one colonizer sold cultural heritage to another colonizer doesn't mean we have to be okay with it.
The museum trustees have no shame and even argue that back in 1816 the colonizers themselves declared everything to be legal. How convincing.