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 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.