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Cambridge University will put notes on ‘misleadingly’ white Roman and Greek plaster-cast sculptures – explaining it doesn’t mean the ancient world had an ‘absence of diversity’
The Daily Mail UK ^ | 22 Aug 2021 | By KAMAL SULTAN FOR THE DAILY MAIL and JAMES ROBINSON FOR MAILONLINE

Posted on 08/23/2021 11:16:58 PM PDT by blueplum

Signs will be added to explain the ‘whiteness’ of sculpture plaster casts inside Cambridge University’s archaeology museum as part of a new anti-racist strategy.

Plaster casts of Roman and Greek sculptures are said to give a ‘misleading impression’ of the whiteness and ‘absence of diversity’ of the ancient world.

And the Classics Faculty at Cambridge University has revealed it will ‘turn the problem into an opportunity’, according to the Daily Telegraph....

...academics will be encouraged to include ‘content warnings’ to lectures and reading materials.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Education; History
KEYWORDS: archaeology; archeology; brokewoke; cambridge; elginmarbles; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; gypsumisracist; history; notsatire; romanempire; unitedkingdom; wokeculture; wokehistory
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another woke boot on the neck of our cultural heritage.
1 posted on 08/23/2021 11:16:58 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum

I thought this was the Bee.


2 posted on 08/23/2021 11:20:42 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (I identify as fully vaccinated. )
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To: blueplum

The stupid is strong with this one.


3 posted on 08/23/2021 11:22:10 PM PDT by rdl6989 ( )
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To: SunkenCiv

Ping.


4 posted on 08/23/2021 11:23:13 PM PDT by rdl6989 ( )
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To: blueplum

Well, People did move around, though slowly, back then. You didnt need a passport. Passports are a more recent invention. They dont work at all so of course govts love them.

Especially along the sea routes you might see people from quite far away. People would come from all over Europe to see the library at Alexandria for example. Rome would be full of people from all over the place. Only an ignorant clod would need this stupid labelling.


5 posted on 08/23/2021 11:31:54 PM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: blueplum

Greek and Roman history lacks diversity. With some new textbooks and a LOT of Federal funding, a solution can be found.


6 posted on 08/23/2021 11:32:18 PM PDT by JustaTech (A mind is a terrible thing)
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The lack of academic resistance to this sh!t is not surprising.


7 posted on 08/23/2021 11:34:51 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: blueplum

NOTE TO SELF: Finish watching the movie “Idiocracy” tomorrow.


8 posted on 08/23/2021 11:35:53 PM PDT by The Duke (Search for 'Sydney Ducks' and understand what is needed.)
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To: blueplum

So-called academics have way too much time on their hands. They should seriously consider joining the real-world workforce. It might open their eyes as to what is really important to the vast majority of people.


9 posted on 08/23/2021 11:36:39 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: blueplum

WOKE=BULLSHIT
The woke crowd needs to get off their collective commie asses and quit this incessant WHINING.
You don’t get FREE STUFF.
You have to EARN IT.
And no one in their right mind gives a rat’s ass about your COLOR WHINING, your PRONOUN WHINING, your history WHINING or your SLAVE WHINING.
Everyone has slavery in their backgrounds at one time or another!!
It has gotten totally RIDICULOUS!
And you can take your CRT and shove it up your racist ASSES.


10 posted on 08/23/2021 11:43:46 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: blueplum

Plaster is RACISS!


11 posted on 08/23/2021 11:53:58 PM PDT by Do_Tar (Do I really need a /sarc?)
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To: blueplum

Whites are a minority on this planet.


12 posted on 08/24/2021 12:09:15 AM PDT by Trillian
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To: doc maverick

If unchecked, this eventually ends up as a Polpot Cambodia situation.


13 posted on 08/24/2021 12:09:55 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dreams)
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To: blueplum

Yes, we must go back historically and define the context with relation to equity, inclusivity, diversity, sensitivity and propensity to re-imagine the dialectic between the stakeholders and the slaves chained in the bottom of the galleys - none of which were black.


14 posted on 08/24/2021 12:22:53 AM PDT by .44 Special (Taimid Buacharch)
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A shame the Germans didn’t bomb this place to hell. Would have killed a lot of Soviet spies, future spies, Marxist professors and future Marxists.

A festering anti-Western, anti-capitalism, anti-America center of Marxist sedition and corruption since the 30’s.


15 posted on 08/24/2021 12:35:30 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: blueplum

Then such should put a notice on every liberal site masquerading as an objective source that the absence of conservative views does not mean they do not exist.


16 posted on 08/24/2021 12:40:24 AM PDT by daniel1212 ( Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save + be baptized + follow Him!)
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To: blueplum

this has to be the Babylon Bee


17 posted on 08/24/2021 12:49:15 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they are excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: faithhopecharity

I left it up on my screen overnight thinking. nawww, it’s a spoof story and they’ll take it down, but nope, still there this evening!


18 posted on 08/24/2021 12:56:25 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: Do_Tar

So is Alabaster. Marble is the most racist of all.


19 posted on 08/24/2021 1:02:00 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Cornpop was a good dude.)
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To: blueplum

Ha! Suitable for Mad Magazine


20 posted on 08/24/2021 1:32:38 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they are excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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