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 -  (1 child)

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.