Posted on 07/05/2020 8:32:14 AM PDT by euram
“It’s critical that we move past identity politics,” Decolonize This Place organizer Marz Saffore told CNN, “It’s not enough to hire an Indigenous curator. It’s not enough to have one Black person on your board. Museums as we know them have to be abolished. I don’t want my voice to be added to museums that are often trophy cases for Imperialism.”
So we abolish these trophy cases of Imperialism. Where does that leave our nation’s children?
I know where it would have left me. As an example, Madison West High School taught me little to nothing about the Inuit peoples and their cultures. However, one afternoon in a museum in Anchorage, Alaska went a long way to filling some of that gap.
Frankly, there is simply not enough time in a student’s history class for him to learn all he ought to or wants to about even one or two topics throughout his K-12 career. Places like natural history museums offer an unparalleled opportunity for children to learn and experience a breadth of topics in a short time. Surely exposing children to many topics and cultures they’ve never have heard of is a good thing?
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I thought museums and art galleries were run by far left liberals. Eating there own?
This is getting into Pol Pot territory.
Marz Saffore (Woman in photo): Pol Pot? Where's some pot? I wanted to smoke a blunt before I left this morning. Too rushed.
Progress, LEFT-style, is so much easier when you are using a blank canvas to measure with. History is very annoying when it shows facts that are not in accord with the progressive ‘TRUTHS’!
Cultural and societal Deconstruction. Darrida and Foucault took the actions of their Jacobin forebears and built an academic structure, deconstruction, and with the help of many, in the US it was The Modern Language Assoc, Zinn, and Chomsky it was introduced without any evaluation into the schools. I encountered it at Queens College in ‘90 while going for my MS in Soc St Ed. My main prof, Jack Zevin, an affable guy, was pushing the idea of the narrative being supreme and facts being irrelevant. I had to research deconstruction so I could challenge him. There were some fun times in the class, but I could see the younger students were eating this up.
“It’s not enough to hire an Indigenous curator. It’s not enough to have one Black person on your board. Museums as we know them have to be abolished. I don’t want my voice to be added to museums that are often trophy cases for Imperialism.”
Where do they come up with this nonsense?
/rhetorical question mode
We don’t need museums and we don’t need Left-wing curators. Fire them all, take pictures so people can view online, sell all the buildings and DELETE FUNDING!!. Mothball all the crap within and bury it in caverns.
Hey, that’s what they want to do with our history anyhow, isn’t it?
“So we abolish these trophy cases of Imperialism.”
From 1984:
“‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’”
Ja, die einzige Geschichte, die wir akzeptable Kameraden finden, ist die, die wir lehren!
Every time I’ve visited the great works of the European masters of art, I’ve thought to myself...enjoy them now before they’re ripped from the walls and burned in the streets. It seems that day gets closer and closer...
They are the Taliban
And who gets possession of the often highly valuable exhibits, worth millions in resale? Let me guess...
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Abolish Leftists and Leftism in all it poisonous works.
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Lefty and her size 54 pants.
Don’t be fooled, she is a left handed leftist and is warming her fist up to punch your lights out!
Where do you get these ugly pictures? Jus’ askin’!
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