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It would “open the gateway to the question of the entire contents of our museums”, she said.
HMMMMMMM WHY WOULD THAT BE, DO YOU THINK
OOOOooOOO tugging on collar Those swarthy Greeks are simply too untrutworthy to handle such old and deeeelicate sculptures! Such hnnng priceless artifacts! We simply couldn't return them, heavens no! And we wouldn't want to put ideas of returning things to the uncivilized peoples in the rest of the world, that would be a disaster!
Much like the monarchy, their collection can't be gotten rid of as it would adversely effect tourism.
It would “open the gateway to the question of the entire contents of our museums”, she said.
:sicko-yes:
There’s actually a really good point here. If we return these artifacts to their home countries, they are at risk of being destroyed when the west unilaterally invades and destroys those countries, like in Iraq.
That picture of the museum worker collapsed in tears over a pile of shattered artifacts still fucking haunts me
It would “open the gateway to the question of the entire contents of our museums”, she said.
:yes-comm:
they kinda did that in black panther at the start which had me kinda hyped, and then they had him shoot his girlfriend for no reason so youd know actually hes eeeeevil and "stealing" from the british museum is bad actually and you should side with the nice cia-backed feudal monarchy against him :)
Unironically Black Atom was way more based than Black Panther
Yeah DC sucks and the edgelord fanbase sucks more but seeing the "heroes" refusing to kill the blackwater goons illegally occupying the country and getting booed by the people followed by Black Atom just killing them and being cheered was fucking awesome
Definitely the best conspiracy theory going right now. I hope we live to see China open the "come and take it" museum displaying all the art they've reclaimed.
I'd like that museum to have a whole exhibit on the patriots who rescued their stolen cultural artifacts and some details about the thefts, too. And also a Mission Impossible style franchise about them.
Oh yeah that's what I mean, the patriots are the ones who did the deeds not the leeches who paid for them.
Give them a display that ends with "after we thanked them, they were hanged for exploiting workers"
Most of the plunder was taken back to Europe and either tucked away in private collections or presented as gifts to royal families. Queen Victoria of Britain was given a pet Pekingese dog, the first of its kind ever seen in Europe. Unabashed by its provenance, she named it Looty.
Well that's a doozy of a line.
oh but the british royals have totally changed now right?
:padme-2: theyve changed now right?
That article is cool, but also
By the early 2000s, however, China was growing rich and confident, and decidedly less Communist. The fate of the country's plundered art was seized upon as a focus of national concern and pride.
I guess it's just not communist to be concerned about your countries history
Imagine in any other context saying that if you gave back one thing you stole then everyone else you stole from might ask for their stuff back too with a straight face.
they're not even returning them permanently just making a deal for a temporary rotation lol
controversial opinion, europeans should be giving artefacts back to other europeans dead-last in the order of restitution. in fact they should have to fight each other in a war to see who gets to keep anything knicked prior to ~1830
It would “open the gateway to the question of the entire contents of our museums”...
That is, in a certain way, remarkably honest. It would, wouldn't it?
Now, what I hope for is for Greece to get the EU involved. They could probably get the EU on board for getting back cultural artifacts from the UK. The UK probably couldn't just give them up because the EU said so. That would be a fun one!
We can't give that back or everyone else will start asking for theirs :cri:
