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UK’s Natural History Museum to Review ‘Offensive’ Charles Darwin Exhibits, Bowing to BLM Pressure
In response to the iconoclastic Black Lives Matter movement, the Natural History Museum has launched a review into supposedly “offensive” and “problematic” collections, including exotic birds collected by English naturalist Charles Darwin.
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Natural History Museum to review potentially ‘offensive’ Charles Darwin collection
An internal review in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests has led to an audit into some rooms and itemsBy
Craig Simpson
5 September 2020 • 7:00pmThe Natural History Museum will become the latest institution to review it’s collections after an audit warned its Charles Darwin exhibitions could be seen as “offensive”.
An internal review, sanctioned in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests, has led to an audit into some rooms, statues, and collected items that could potentially cause offence.
It warns that collections which some may find “problematic” could include specimens gathered by Darwin, whose voyage to the Galapagos Island on HMS Beagle was cited by a curator as one of Britain’s many “colonialist scientific expeditions”.
Museum bosses are now desperately seeking to address what some staff believe are “legacies of colonies, slavery and empire” by potentially renaming, relabelling, or removing these traces in the institution.
The executive board told staff in documents seen by The Sunday Telegraph that “in light of Black Lives Matter and the recent anti-racist demonstrations around the world” the museum would undertake a review of existing room names and “whether any statues (or collections) or could potentially cause offence”.
One of the institution’s directors said in internal documents that new action taken to address these issues would alter “the use and display of our collections and public spaces”.
An example of the new thinking to address perceived imperial connections to science was a paper penned by a curator and shared with staff, which claimed “science, racism, and colonial power were inherently entwined”.
The work further argues that “museums were put in place to legitimise a racist ideology”, that “covert racism exists in the gaps between the displays”, and as a result collections need to be decolonised.
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The ceiling of the grand Hintze Hall, where Hope the blue whale’s skeleton hangs, could also be problematic for staff.
The painted ceiling contains visual depictions of plants “like cotton, tea and tobacco” which were “the plants that fuelled the British Empire’s economy”, according to the paper shared with staff in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests.
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For some reason, this meme seems to fit…
The Natural History Museum has earned a full suite of Billy Madison and Ron White awards…
A Tommy Lee Jones implied face palm…
And one of these…
Hey,BLM tries to convince folks that the biggest threat to Blacks are White police officers, ignoring the tens of thousands of Black victims, murdered by their “brothers” in the Black sections of cities. Theose Black lives don’t matter to BLM, now do they. BLM is this generation’s racist, Ku Klux Klan org, only more violent and more stupid.
Some, Select Black Lives Matters is a Pro-Choice sect of the Progressive Church, rabid diversitists (i.e. color judgments), the contemporary Democratic neo-KKK, or neo-Nazis who denied individual dignity, denied individual conscience, normalized color quotas, color blocs, and affirmative discrimination. They practiced redistributive change for social justice and were staunch ethical defenders of the “wicked solution” (i.e. Planned People) for social progress, but on a smaller scale than their urbane ideological counterparts.
Prease spreak engrish!
Not possible.
Those who chose to scrub past history clean are destined to replicate it’s mistakes
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
History is definitely rhyming. We’re reaching the end of the Second Progressive Era. The first occurred between 1870-1920 and ended with a brief resurgence of individual ideology and freedom known as the Roaring 20s. The great mistake they made then was not to correct the damage inflicted during the Progressive Era, thus allowing for the policies enacted during that era to plunge the world into the Great Depression which furthered progressive policies still plaguing us.
We shouldn’t make the same mistake of our ancestors this time. Instead of partying like we simply won, we need to recognize that the fight is not over and correct the systemic diseases that are the collectivist policies piggybacking on the free market. This starts with the education system; end the monopoly of leftist public education.
There is only one possible outcome in a given as far as diagnosis goes.
If Darwin’s English is not good enough English, to any one there contemplating it that way,
then no one else’s English will ever be good enough… ever.
And as far as this goes, all the non happy or complainers about Darwin’s English, simply self diagnosed
as pure insane lunatics.
The Darwinian English will make that of William Sh. sound really like English luny tunes of the ages past… in life support.
But hey, this “new age bravery” of the fully insane at large, got to get its own day under the sun.
Darwinian evolution, 101.
Where definitely, price will very well match the value… accordingly.
So
How does thus far my English sounds to you, whatever you be… Inglichy spraker ?
How your day under the sun going?
cheers
“sounds”?
I wonder how long a racist cop would last in any of these problematic police forces that seem to have majority black cops and leadership spanning from Sargents to Mayors. I’m not going to be a racist and blame the black leadership, when the real problem is Democratic leadership and their systemic hate of anyone who isn’t a far left lunatic. Anyone of any race can be just as hatefully stupid as anyone else.
According to a Rhode Island professor, it is morally justifiable to kill fascists.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/rhode-island-professor-killing-portland-activist-ok-moral-perspective-killed-fascist
Now you know what BLM and Antifa are planning for the rest of us.
You don’t even have to show that someone is fascist, all you have to do is say it, after they’re dead, and you’re golden.
Mark,
Since Pantifa is obviously an anti-free speech, fascist organization, is this professor saying that concerned citizens are morally justified in shooting them? No wonder they’ve got their panties in a wad! What about pro-slavery, Communist inspired groups like Burn, Loot and Murder?
He’s not in favor of slavery and human trafficking is he? Then he must support ICE, one of the premier anti-sex and human trafficking fighters in the world today! I’ve been reading lots of stories recently about all the children being rescued and their abusers being arrested by ICE along our southern border! The sections of wall that have been upgraded or completed must really be starting to make a difference! Maybe Trump can get another Nobel nomination for all the rapes and abuse his policies are preventing for the women and children trying to enter our country illegally! I know it’s only like 70-75% of the women that are raped during their journey but I’m sure the feminists and the Me Too celebrities are really ecstatic about our President showing how much he cares about the common folks!
Maybe they’ll just concede the election now before Quid Pro Joe gets all his family’s criminal behavior exposed and he blows a gasket!
So according to this professor Americans can start killing Democrats, Progressives, Critical Race Theorists, and all other enemies of America. Cool, professors are “experts” so we have to do what they say!
“…tries to convince folks that…” It’s too late. It’s already done.
“Hey,BLM tries to convince folks that the biggest threat to Blacks are White police officers, ignoring the tens of thousands of Black victims, murdered by their “brothers” in the Black sections of cities.”
Also ignoring the fact that some of those police officers weren’t white.
BLM does not care about blacks at all. They are all about tearing down our history, culture, and society. They are trained Marxists and the adults need to stand up to them, not kowtow to them Wow, what pansies we have in charge of our museums. Was the development of all humans throughout history supposed to wait until BLM came along before we could explore the world. What idiots!
In addition to their congenital cowardice, they will have to undo years of indoctrination.
We do have a systemic racism problem in this country. One cause is natural. Look up Hamilton’s rule. People prefer their kin. The other cause is political. Kamala Harris and Joe Biden put more Blacks in prison than the KKK. Is it true? Could be. End Joe Biden’s racist Drug War.
And fighting Drugs? What if they don’t cause addiction? Addiction is a symptom of PTSD. Says Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine Eric Kandel. Dr. Lonny Shavelson found that 70% of female heroin addicts were sexually abused in childhood. Will Prohibition cure PTSD? Or prevent the sexual abuse of children?
“We do have a systemic racism problem in this country.” Yes, it is called the Democrat Party and it is caused by leftist political ideology.
Indeed, Look around the country to all the places that the “examples” of this so-called “systemic” racism are occurring. They’re all cities that have been run by Democrats for decades. Democrat run cities, with police leadership appointed by Democrats. The first step to solving the problem would be to stop voting for these far-left Democrat loons.
First step is to invoke the Insurrection Act, second is to arrest all elected officials in each of these cities and states where elected officials and their forces in the streets are in a state of insurrection against the United States, interrogate them all thoroughly then arrest all those connected to their acts of insurrection. Third step, try publicly, convict publicly, sentence publicly. Do this all openly, publicly and 100% transparently. This sh*t has gone on long enough, they have repeatedly and publicly declared themselves enemies of America.
We supposedly learned this a long time ago. Prohibition kills. End Joe Biden’s racist Drug War.
Darwin was an abolitionist. The Royal Navy suppressed the slave trade from 1808, maintaining its West African Squadron at great expense. Britain abolished slavery in 1833, while Darwin was at sea on HMS Beagle.
It’s not him, not his character, it’s his Color (i.e. low-information attributes). Diversity dogma is a fundamental principle of the Twilight faith and Pro-Choice, selective, opportunistic quasi-religion (“ethics”), which denies individual dignity, denies individual conscience, normalizes color quotas (Darwin didn’t make the cut), color blocs (e.g. 1/2 Americans), and affirmative discrimination (e.g. cancellation, elective abortion). Some, Select Black Lives Matter is just the latest sect of that quasi-religious order, incorporated under the diversity racket operating under the multi-trillion dollar, global umbrella social industrial complex.
What the hell has pro choice got to do with it… please stop conflating different issues…
Planned Parenthood was founded with the idea of decreasing the number of births of babies from “undesirable” races.
Abortion has everything to do with it, from the beginning.
MarkW–
It’s amazing how that little fact seems to escape the fury of BLM.
hmmmmm must be a cross atlantic difference… dont see it that way from here
You don’t see it because you don’t care to know the history (ignorance is not a virtue). Look up Margaret Sanger (the founder of Planned Parenthood). Even Planned Parenthood itself has been forced to admit her racist views after decades of denial.
Yeah, but n.n inserts abortion into virtually every comment on every subject.
Yeah so? Even if that is true, in this case his point is very relevant to the subject at hand.
Well, since “pro-choice” is the vehicle which has been used to kill several million black babies it has everything to do with “it”.
The Oscars have installed a new rule. In order to be considered for any awards, a film now has to prove that they have hired a minimum number of actors/stage hands/whatever from various minority groups.
Yet, they literally lighten up the skin color of the casts in their movies for Communist China. They also remove prominent actors of color from billboards placed in Communist China.
You couldn’t make this stuff up – you’d be pilloried if you made this stuff up about the Left.
Indeed, even “woke” Disney alters their movie poster for China. For The Force Awakens the image of the one Black actor in the movie is minimized for the Chinese market (making his image smaller and less noticeable than that of the other white actors). At least they still kept him on the poster, The Black Panther poster in America shows the Actors face, whereas the same poster in China has the Actor’s face covered by the Black Panther mask.
And don’t forget it was the US Navy that stopped the Barbary white slave trade.
And privateers, and not just American. Plenty of French, Spanish,Dutch, Sicilian and Corsican privateers merrily went at it once Britain declared open season on the muslim slavers, and their mercantile ships as well. Profit to be made, those seeking such flooded in. The last phase of the End of Piracy.
Will “BLM” rewrite the complete history ? Make thinks not happend ?
The great “dissapearing act”! How Photos Became a Weapon in Stalin’s Great Purge
BLM followers studied Marxism and apply Stalin’s methods. Applying Stalin’s methods, numerous people “disappeared” politically. They were then erased from photos with Stalin. BLM (aka BurnLootMurder) and Antifa are now applying Stalin’s methods to impose their tyranny on everyone else. How long will we tolerate this arson, destruction, violence, murder and insurrection? Vote wisely!
https://www.history.com/news/josef-stalin-great-purge-photo-retouching
“How long will we tolerate this arson, destruction, violence, murder and insurrection? Vote wisely!”
They’re only really doing these things in Democrat controlled cities, where anyone not them who has a firearm is seen as a white supremacist.
If they went out into rural areas, they would end up with a lot of casualties.
Nuts, isn’t it? Akin to thieves and robbers breaking into and stealing from those in their own neighborhood.
Seems like a number of people who are rioting in NYC come from the wealthiest families in the city.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/nyc-protesters-leading-lives-of-wealth-and-privilege-busted-for-rioting
thieves and robbers have been known to break into and steal from those in their own neighborhood due to their familiarity with potential targets. If you have a robber in your neighborhood and he know you have something nice that he wants, you just may be on his target list.
Surely any museum that shows anything historical relating to a white person should be closed down immediately.
It’s long been clear that evolution is problematic. Evolution is anti-equality, and therefore haram. It was only a matter of time before Darwin was unpersoned.
We are now living in a period of time that is the opposite of The Enlightenment.
It’s The Enstupidment!
… or perhaps The Endarkenment? Or would that be “RAAAAAYYYYYCCCIIISSSSSSSSSSST!!1!”?
The beginning of the Idiocracy
The more time goes on, the more apparent it becomes that Idiocracy was a documentary from the future.
No. We’re living in the inevitable end times of The Enlightenment, which was based on lies from the start.
The inevitable result of the cult of Equality, for example, is that the world ends up being run by lunatics because if everyone is equal, there is no difference between the sane and the insane. The inevitable result of the cult of Free Speech is that insane ideas take over the culture, because there are far more insane ideas than sane ideas. The inevitable result of the cult of Rationality is that the lunatics rationally decide they should simply kill the non-lunatics so they won’t have any competition, because why shouldn’t they?
“All men are born equal” means that everyone should be equal before the law. Obviously, people are born with various gifts in talent and ability, but each one of us is equal before God and should be before the law. Clearly, that’s a consummation devoutly to be wished, but not yet a fact, as money can still buy better treatment before the law.
Please be clear… what is wrong… it would appear that we agree but your post would imply I am wrong can you say what it is I said that is wrong?
Eh? Please be clear … Slyrik are you MarkG? Because John Tillman’s post was in response to what MarkG wrote.
Please be clear that my comment wasn’t in reply to anything you wrote.
That is a backward view of the enlightenment
Yes
Example
Stalin killed Karim khakimov.
John Tillman; exactly what I was thinking. This is an example (the subject matter of the article) of people trying to do what they think others may want them to do, mob thinking, instead of a conscious application of rational thought.
While Beagle’s skipper Fitzroy argued with Darwin over slavery while in Brazil, as second governor of NZ, he favored fair treatment for Maoris, angering settlers.
“…an audit warned its Charles Darwin exhibitions could be seen as “offensive”.”
Nobody took offence to it, but they’re pre-empting the offence and hiding history. How on Earth does a museum think hiding history is a good idea? These guys are seriously deranged.
I’ve lost track of the number of times white liberals have proclaimed that something or other must be banned because it offends minorities.
Nobody ever bothers to check with the minorities to see if they are actually offended, or if they even care.
Here’s the crackpot paper to which they alluded:
● https://natsca.org/article/2509
● https://natsca.org/sites/default/files/publications/JoNSC-Vol6-DasandLowe2018.pdf
A lot of liberals, these days, think that science is inherently racist. (I’m using the word “think” very loosely, of course.) Here are some examples of that mindset:
● https://sealevel.info/intersectional_blah_blah_blah.html
Note: if the last link on that page, to the tweet by NASA GISS’s Kate Marvel, does not work for you, because she’s blocked you on Twitter (me too!), then right-click it, and “Open link in incognito window,” or “Open in a new private window,” or similar.
Unfortunately, the professional grievance-peddlers who promote this nonsense have a large, well-fortified beachhead in academia, from which they systematically pollute young minds.
. (I’m using the word “think” very loosely, of course.)
Please don’t. The far left doesn’t think, they emote. Facts, logic, history, knowledge, etc don’t matter at all to them, what matters is what they feel.
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout the world. At the same time, the anthropomorphous apes…will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as now between the negro or Australian and the gorilla. – Charles Darwin, “Origin of Species…”
damp,
Pro-tip: when you post something like that, you should strive to ensure your reader knows you are quoting someone else at the outset.
Your misquotation is most similar to a passage from “The Descent of Man”, not “On the Origin”. In it, Darwin predicts that our nearest ape kin will be exterminated. This hasn’t happened yet, but has gotten terribly close.
Here is what Darwin wrote in “The Voyage of the Beagle”:
“I thank God, I shall never again visit a slave-country. To this day, if I hear a distant scream, it recalls with painful vividness my feelings, when passing a house near Pernambuco, I heard the most pitiable moans, and could not but suspect that some poor slave was being tortured, yet knew that I was as powerless as a child even to remonstrate. I suspected that these moans were from a tortured slave, for I was told that this was the case in another instance. Near Rio de Janeiro I lived opposite to an old lady, who kept screws to crush the fingers of her female slaves. I have staid in a house where a young household mulatto, daily and hourly, was reviled, beaten, and persecuted enough to break the spirit of the lowest animal. I have seen a little boy, six or seven years old, struck thrice with a horsewhip (before I could interfere) on his naked head, for having handed me a glass of water not quite clean; I saw his father tremble at a mere glance from his master’s eye. These latter cruelties were witnessed by me in a Spanish colony, in which it has always been said, that slaves are better treated than by the Portuguese, English, or other European nations. I have seen at Rio de Janeiro a powerful Negro afraid to ward off a blow directed, as he thought, at his face. I was present when a kind hearted man was on the point of separating for ever the men, women, and little children of a large number of families who had long lived together. I will not even allude to the many heart-sickening atrocities which I authentically heard of; — nor would I have mentioned the above revolting details, had I not met with several people, so blinded by the constitutional gaiety of the Negro, as to speak of slavery as a tolerable evil.”
— Chapter 21
John Tillman, thank you for the correction. “Descent of Man” is the book, not “Origin….”
However, according to many online sources not aligned with my point of view, the quote is accurate as I gave it. The ellipsis is short, and is supplied here.
(For the sake of Joel O’Brien, the following are the words of Charles Darwin, in quotes.)
“At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state as we may hope, than the Caucasian and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.”
Looks like the ChiComs are well on their way to having their surrogates attempt to wipe out the evil, racist whites! As the Western world slides into endless partisan fights and quarrels, the ChiComs are laughing all the way to the bank!
Who’s Alexa?!
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The new Biden pedophilia exhibit gets the Manchester grooming gang’s approval.
The UK has been suffering a pandemic of acute institutional moral cowardice for at least 20 years — ever since the first police unit and office of social work closed their collective eyes to urban Muslim rape gangs for fear of being called racist.
It’s comments like these that confirm our systemic racism, and reveal that we all need to do our part to eliminate all forms of bigotry & racism.
As a start, for my part, I am going to stop wearing cotton fabric, drinking tea, or smoking tobacco (although I will still chew up the tobacco really good and use it for bee stings … unless/until, of course, someone can point out how that may be perceived/assumed/construed as a racist or offensive action).
Cotton fabric is systemic racism, OK.
But aren’t petrol products against social justice or something?
What are we going to wear?
Darwin identified as Hutu, or, if Some, Select Black Lives Matter is of a competing diversity class, as Tutsi. Perhaps as a post-apartheid Progressive Black South African who lynched other Blacks in retributive change or an affirmative action to reduce to competing interests. That said, diversity (i.e. color judgments) breeds adversity. Social justice (i.e. relativistic) anywhere is injustice everywhere. #BabyLivesMatter
It is tragic how stunted of an education that my children and grandchildren will have – truly tragic.
How about renaming some of the key species exhibited after David Lammy? It might help and the woke wouldn’t care about anachronism
If it’s bad, it’s good, and if it’s good it’s bad, and if you don’t believe it you’re a racist.
The real problem I see is that no-one seems to have any actual backbone any more.
Companies just fold to the ranting mob in so many aspects.
The best defense is NOT bowing and scraping on your knees.. !
“Thing” has his own response to the BLM closed fist..
This is what happens when you create a nation of dweebs. Like the dodo bird, sooner or later they fall prey to an invasive ‘species’.
Maybe the most interesting thing about this is how similar these social phenomena are to basic phenomena in ecology and biological evolution.
Sorry, it is “settled science”, deal with it. By settled science I mean the scientific method in which a hypothesis is created which leads to a null hypothesis that may be rejected with a certain degree of statistical probability. Sadly this post-modern dumpster fire regards nothing as true and everything as a means by which one group oppresses the other. The mathematically provable statement of 2+2=4 is for these people some sort of oppression. I suggest that the judo should be used on these folks and simply state that their post-modern rubbish grievance theory is a form of oppression of the thinking masses and they should be immediately cancelled. I would suggest hanged from a convenient tree, but I am actually against capital punishment. Then again, capital comes from the Latin head and these people do not appear to have one, so it may be that capital punishment in their case is an oxymoron.
…. it gets more and more like stories from “The Onion” every day in here, yet unlike in “The Onion”, or the late lamented “Sunday Sport” (London Bus found on The Moon … etc), how ever improbable these reports are true 😨.
Enjoy this Justin Trudeau impersonator while you can still see it …
How about letting the past be the past acknowledging they were not perfect just like we are not perfect? This rewrite of history is pure stupidity. It serves no purpose other than demonstrating how much power they are welding which is exactly what they complained happened with those in the past. Bad for those in the past but it is OK for them. Right.
Black lives don’t matter to other blacks, just look at gang violence in most U.S major cities, and if that isn’t enough to prove a point then just look at the Rwanda stats. 800,000 killed by being shot/hacked/burnt. The biggest threat by far to a black man is another black man (one of a different tribe/gang/status). BLM want to portray themselves as victims when in actual fact they are the perpetrators.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/rhode-island-professor-killing-portland-activist-ok-moral-perspective-killed-fascist
No. Black Lies Matter proves Darwin, over and over and over.
The museum has nothing on recent grads from my alma mater, a science and engineering school. At the beginning of the COVID lockdown in March, people speculated about what might be accomplished in science and math because all the distractions were eliminated. However by late May, there were posts about how grads needed to show solidarity by declaring math and hard sciences racist. I can’t believe how screwed up kids have gotten by SJW tendencies in most colleges.
If math and hard sciences are racist, then pressure must be put on universities to cancel teaching those fields. Since I will be checking out before the impact of that would affect me, that would suit me fine. Let them destroy their civilization, endure starvation and deprivations, and discover that nature doesn’t give a whit about their feelings or demands. It’s becoming clear that the herd needs to be thinned, and people who must spend every waking hour looking for food have no time to worry about what’s offensive.
They might even learn why those who produce more, get more. In any group where food must be hunted and gathered, who gets fed first, fed the most, and why?
Todd Beamer said ‘Let’s Role’.
We must be pretty close to needing to do the same?