#also hey wiseasses have you stopped to consider the vast majority of museums only display a tiny fraction of their collections?
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As a bisexual (mixed race) former academic w degrees in museum studies/art history & also former employee at an archaeology museum, WHEW......
#LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH MOST PEOPLE ON THIS WEBSITE HAVE EXTREMELY SHALLOW DISCOURSE#on EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE TOPICS#every. single. one.#like 80% of the takes people have about these topics on here are AT BEST um well you sure thought about 2% of this problem#its always like “repatriate all all objects to their country of origin!!!” which sure sounds smart and snappy but like#*rubs temples* you cannot do that for EVERYTHING#“repatriate everything to homeland museums! dismantle colonialist museums” okay great so now solve “museums are a site of nationalism#oh you didnt think that far ahead? so i guess we're not just sending everything from north korea back to north korea?#also hey wiseasses have you stopped to consider the vast majority of museums only display a tiny fraction of their collections?#and for archaeological museums a LOT of the stuff not on display is twenty bajillion pottery sherds excavated from garbage dumps?#and those bajillion pottery sherds and arrows etc are really valuable for STUDY and RESEARCH but they're not all PRETTY#“return everything stolen!!!” — person who hasnt considered that iraq probably doesnt want twenty thousand pieces of broken cookware back#there are times where repatriation is the right ethical IMPERATIVE and it should absolutely be done. that time is actually not “always.”#and the things where repatriation is a moral and ethical necessity for stewards of culture DESERVE to be treated w nuance#also so many of yall say things that just dont reflect reality of the situation for any of this#historians hide lgbtq history - lgbtq historians exist babe??#archaeologists are grave robbers? honestly most of them are digging up literal trash pits#theyre garbage robbers. the graves and hordes are the unusual stuff! thats FANCY shit.#academics never listen to— frankly thats a two way street yall dont listen to academics either#and on both sides many people arent worth listening to so you got me there i guess#like technically jordan peterson is an academic but hes still a hack you shouldnt listen to
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