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London Museum Showcases ‘Contemporary Villains’: Hitler, Bin Laden, And … Margaret Thatcher?
The Daily Wire ^ | March 18, 2024 | Virginia Kruta

Posted on 03/19/2024 1:10:02 PM PDT by Twotone

London’s Victoria & Albert Museum took some serious backlash over the weekend after it was reported that an exhibit on British humor had included the late Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher alongside Osama bin Laden and Adolf Hitler in a short list of “contemporary villains.”

The exhibit, which was meant to show how British humor had evolved over time, showcased Victorian “Punch & Judy” puppets along with a caption that included the following:

Over the years, the evil character in this seaside puppet show has shifted from the Devil to unpopular public figures including Adolf Hitler, Margaret Thatcher and Osama bin Laden, to offer contemporary villains.

Critics were quick to address the issue, with many noting that whatever people thought of Thatcher — Britain’s first female prime minister — she hardly belonged on a short list of “villains” that only included 9/11 architect and al Qaeda terrorist bin Laden and Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.

Nile Gardiner, former aide to Thatcher, argued that the museum should lose access to any government funding over the display. “The V& A should have its public funding taken away because it’s engaging here in political activity,” he said.

Deputy leader of Reform UK, Ben Habib, argued that whatever one thought of Thatcher’s politics, she was an important part of Britain’s history. He added, “Whoever made this decision should be sacked.”

“It’s staggeringly offensive to bracket Britain’s first female Prime Minister with a genocidal maniac and a terrorist,” Telegraph associate editor Camilla Tominey wrote.

“Whoever wrote that caption should be called out publicly for being a moron, or perhaps more usefully sent to read a Ladybird book of modern world history. It is sadly symptomatic of the woke, luvvie-dom nonsense that persists in our public institutions,” Sir Connor Burns, a former trade minister and Conservative MP said. “They should be given a serious rap across the knuckles and a clarion instruction to grow up.”

According to a report published Sunday by The Daily Mail, the V&A took in the majority of it’s funding from the government through the Department of Culture — to the tune of £67 million — in the last year.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: britain; margaretthatcher; museum; villains

1 posted on 03/19/2024 1:10:02 PM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

Our dear NATO allies - the Neo-marxist elites of the City of London.

Keep that money flowing, fools!


2 posted on 03/19/2024 1:12:09 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Twotone

what? they didn’t include President Donald J Trump? sissies.


3 posted on 03/19/2024 1:15:10 PM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: Twotone

Where’s Obama?


4 posted on 03/19/2024 2:12:37 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: Twotone

They’re all in on starting WWIII with Christian Russia but slander Thatcher for helping to eliminate the Godless Soviet communists who were hell bent on conquering the entire world.


5 posted on 03/19/2024 2:23:54 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: hardspunned
"...Christian Russia..."

I guess nothing says "Christian" like attacking your neighbors and butchering their people - right, Ivan?

6 posted on 03/19/2024 2:30:20 PM PDT by Chainmail (How do I feel about ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
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To: Chainmail

Nothing says Christian like being a putz neocon stooge of the globohomos, right, uh, what type pervert are you identifying as today?


7 posted on 03/19/2024 3:08:32 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: Chainmail

8 posted on 03/19/2024 3:21:50 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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To: Twotone

It’s easy to rant and rave in impotent outrage about this ...

But it does raise a question:

As a matter of historical fact were Adolph Hitler, Margaret Thatcher, and Osama bin Laden portrayed as villains in Punch and Judy shows?


9 posted on 03/19/2024 3:27:19 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: hardspunned
Ah yes - just fall back on your "Glossary of Foul Anglo-Saxon Words" when anyone brings up the brutality, aggression, and primitivity of the Soviet - I mean Russian - State.

You folks are well-armed barbarians and have been since 1000 AD.

10 posted on 03/19/2024 6:34:01 PM PDT by Chainmail (How do I feel about ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
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To: Qwapisking

Yep.


11 posted on 03/19/2024 6:37:05 PM PDT by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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To: NWFree

He was funny?


12 posted on 03/19/2024 6:37:29 PM PDT by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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To: Twotone
Update...

V&A grovels after branding Thatcher villain alongside Hitler and bin Laden The Victoria and Albert Museum has backed down after the popular London institution compared Margaret Thatcher to Adolf Hitler and Osama bin Laden in one of its displays.

That's not groveling, though.

It's a modified limited hangout.

13 posted on 03/24/2024 4:22:14 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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