• pugnaciousfarter@literature.cafe
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    10 hours ago

    And that would be for the Individual Americans to decide, or the institutions.

    It wouldn’t have been plundered.

    You are assuming that the artifacts such as those held in the British museum solely represent “saving culture” but they also represent the lingering colonial mindset. They weren’t taken away to preserve, they were taken as plunder. LITERALLY.

    https://youtu.be/eJPLiT1kCSM

    6:40 <- mark, watch the whole thing if you have the time.

    Imagine if Nigeria and other african countries invaded your country, forced you into indentured servitude, spread propoganda and took all the art/artifacts to their country and used the excuse that your president is a fascist douche turd and because of that none of you are worthy enough to handle it. You just can’t be trusted with your own art and then never returned it even after things got objectively better.