RACE“What’s the point of museums?” - Medical museum to shut its doors because “it is ableist, racist and sexist” - Wellcome Trust closes its History of Medicine Museum.

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[–]Datachost 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

This all seems to stem from their new director who took the job with the sole purpose of destroying the museum. So why the fuck was she hired?

Looks like things are already bad there.

Fragment of jeremy Bentham's skin

We're not in the presence of Jeremy Bentham (died 1832). At best it's a memorial to Bentham. And at worst?

Why display a memorial made from human skin? Marx (of fucking course) described him as a 'leather-tongued oracle' who 'could only have been manufactured in England'. Bentham died while contesting the immediate emancipation of enslaved people.

Written on the skin is a reference to him bequeathing his body for dissection. The 84-year-old's fantasy was that 'every man might be his own statue' and the 1832 Anatomy Act ushered in the new scientific era of 'race' science. Decentre Bentham. Decentre Henry Wellcome's Bentham.

After emancipation how could supremacy be justified? Through culture; museums recentred the white cis-male body

Written on the skin is whiteness. 'Bought at Stevens Rooms in 1925'

Time's up. Just rewriting labels isn't enough. Let's face up to all the human remains that Henry Wellcome collected. Dismantle Wellcome's enduring colonialism, its white infrastructure

Dan Hicks, Author of 'The Brutish Museums' (How long did it take him to come up with that one?)

That's word salad. He doesn't make a single cogent point throughout that whole text. He just spouts some shit that have little to nothing to do with Bentham, then acts as if they do. And then somehow blames it all on Wellcome. Why are we giving these people so much influence and power? Why not just tell them to fuck off with their word salad?

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

These people gamble on the fact the very social fabrics they love to criticize will protect them from violent blowback. You can tell them to fuck off but they'll just cry and use the powers that be to remove the offending opinion. Usually the best way to go about removing these people is financial. People need to not give grant money to these institutions when they aren't serving their intended purpose.

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

It might be easier if they espoused a vision of the world they are trying to create but they don’t. I have no idea what it is they wish to achieve by closing the exhibit/museum, what purpose it will serve.

The fact that they keep persuading organisations to employ them and their co-religionists boggles the mind.

I think that the XR/JustStopOil etc lot are simply the next evolution of the same thing, they’re just the zealots to the woke orthodoxy, they’ve been radicalised by their guru, Roger Hallam, and they’re trying to tear down the world through making everyone late for work (missing the odd father’s funeral and hospital appointment too), and damaging art.

It is almost as if a segment of the middle-class left have lost their damn minds and have decided that they’re going to make everyone pay.

[–]Datachost 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

It seems there's a significant portion of the population who never grow out of the "If I can't have it" phase. The kind of people who grow up to be anarchists, wanting to burn it all down with no idea how they're going to rebuild from the ashes. I honestly think a lot of this stems from spite. There are people out there who don't understand how other people can derive pleasure from an activity and instead of putting in the effort to understand how, they decide to fuck everything up. Someone else is having fun that they don't understand, and instead of leaving them to their own devices or trying to learn, they're going to make sure that person can't have fun anymore.

I can't help but notice Dan Hicks is a white man. Yet somehow at no point in his incoherent ramblings does he suggest his own views might need "decentring". I'm going to take his advice to move away from the white cisheteropatriarchy by ignoring his self indulgent tripe.

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I just had the briefest look at Hicks’ twitter and I could feel my blood pressure peak as I read a few of his tweets whilst looking at his smug face. So yeah, thanks for that!

[–]Datachost 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

By his own logic we can dismiss everything he says. Cate Blanchett actually makes that point in TAR while berating a student for saying Bach is too white and heteronormative for him. They all like to assume they have something that exempts them from their own logic, but don't realise what will happen once we do away with all straight, white artists. Then it'll be straight, black & male, or gay, white & male. Sure you're exempt from that line of thinking NOW. Until what's meant to make you special isn't special anymore

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That scene in Tár is genius, and the student not being able to take the criticism is spot on.

[–]LyingSpirit472 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well, that is the vision of the world: The vision of the world they're trying to create is a world where you have to talk about them for being special and doing [x].

[–]Newzok 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Where do they come from and why are they put in these positions? The Tate had similar vibes, denouncing Lord Tate as slavery adjacent in the first plaque you see-I mean, OK, the sugar industry does not have clean hands but there's a time and place for it. Anyway, this resembles coordinated effort. Probably with the aim of removing cultural spaces. Do these people belong to a think-tank, charity receiving billionaire funding or similar?