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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…
What gives BLM or any other group the right to decide what is offensive for the rest of us. Statues and displays were put there for a reason and at great expense. They, disgruntled groups, want the benefits of Western society, but none of it’s history.
Their self declared moral superiority gives them the right to decide for the rest of us.
If you disagree that they are morally superior, that’s just proof that you are a fascist, and as one college professor has just declared, there is no moral problem with killing fascists.
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For actual Darwin quotes, diary entries, see Paul Glumaz’s thorough research :
T.H. Huxley’s Hideous Revolution In Science
https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2015/eirv42n24-20150612/18-29_4224.pdf
Notable is Darwin’s amusing diary entry of October 1838, 21 years before publication of Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection, or Preservation of the Favored Races in the Struggle for Life.
As for Darwin’s family values, well, Darwin’s first cousin and brother-in-law, Hensleigh Wedgwood (1803-1891) was a well-known legal figure and historian, who wrote a book, On the Origins of Language, that sought to prove that language evolved from animal grunts.
The Wedgewood’s were immensely wealthy, part of a tiny oligarchy, rather like today’s billionaire luminaries.
Perhaps the BLM/Antifa will cancel speech altogether, for random selection of grunts? That would please their funders.
Of course you’d fall for LaRouche as well as Putin. Now I see where the psychotic anti-British lunacy comes from.
Looks like Saturn, the (R)evolution devours its children.
Social Media mobs. Cancel culture. Campus speech policing. These are all part of life in today’s America. Freedom of expression is in crisis. Truly open discourse—the debates, exchange of ideas, and arguments on which the health and flourishing of a democratic republic crucially depend—is increasingly rare. Ideologues demonize opponents to block debates on important issues and to silence people with whom they disagree.
We must ask ourselves: Is this the country we want? Surely not. We want—and to be true to ourselves we need—to be a nation in which we and our fellow citizens of many different faiths, philosophies, and persuasions can speak their minds and honor their deepest convictions without fear of punishment and retaliation.
Philadelphia Statement
“The lesson the South learned, you cannot win a war playing defense, was forgotten when we fought in Nam – and lost.”
The U.S. military did not lose the Vietnam war. The U.S. military defeated the enemy in South Vietnam and sent them packing.
Then, the Radical Democrats in the U.S. Congress sold South Vietnam down the river by forcing the pullout of all American combat troops, which just encouraged North Vietnam to resume the war.
Then the radical Democrats refused to honor the treaty that ended the war, which obligated the U.S. to intervene if North Vietnam attacked again. The Democrats told South Vietnam to go to hell, and that’s what happened.
The U.S. military had everything under control in South Vietnam, despite the efforts of the radical Democrats to hamper their activities at every occasion, such as preventing the U.S. miltiary from invading North Vietnam and ending the war quickly, which caused the war to go on for many years, when it could have been ended six months after an invasion of North Vietnam. Instead, we spent over 10 years in a war of attrition, which we won anyway. At the end, the North Vietnamese were putting 15-year-old boys in the front lines.
And then the radical Democrats threw it all away with a wave of their hands like the fools they are. All that blood, sweat and tears thrown away for nothing. As a result, millions of South Vietnamese died or where displaced.
You don’t want Democrats defending you. Because they won’t do it. They prove it everytime they are put in charge. Look at Obama: He is given an Iraq in good shape after the war, and he turns it into a fiasco by promoting Iranian control of Iraq and allowing the Islamic Terror Army to rampage all over the Middle East. It was only after Trump took over that things settled down in the region.
Just put up a statue of the black man who invented the light bulb. Creepy Joe Biden can give you his name.
the Average IQ of socialists and other leftists is 96.7 compared to 109.7 for libertarians
Stupidity CAN be cured, but the cure is fatal.
I can readily understand why BLM would find something wrong with the theory of evolution, and it has little to do with colonial history.