It reminds me of all those charming Victorian exhibitions of tasteless human curios. In NZ, the Dunedin med school still maintains a collection for echibition of malformed foetuses, biological oddities, posed corpes and their ilk.
From the article’s description, I see little difference.
And it doesn’t bother people in the least. I refused to see it because I think it shows no respect at all for the fact that these were once living people, as human as their audience. But it was here in Florida and I heard a number of people actually joking about going to see “that exhibit of skinned Chinese prisoners.” So it’s not as if the audience didn’t know exactly what they were and how they got there.
Frankly, I was shocked by the attitude of my fellow citizens. But I guess I shouldn’t be shocked by anything anymore.