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>Your solution is to teach them to care, which is hilariously just as colonialist and culturally "appropriatiative" as the person you're replying to. Don’t put

>Your solution is to teach them to care, which is hilariously just as colonialist and culturally "appropriatiative" as the person you're replying to. Don’t put words in my mouth. There is an obvious difference between imposing one’s views and capacity building. EDIT: As in financial support, advising governance structures, conservation training. Supporting institutions who already deeply care. >What if they don't give a shit about their past? Is that really the case? Last time I checked Greece was keenly interested it’s past and wanted their antiquities back. While Rishi was saying they were a “huge asset” to the UK. Please :eyeroll:

jterrys 3y ago
>Don’t put words in my mouth. I'm not. >As in financial support, advising governance structures, conservation training. Supporting institutions who already deeply care. IS literally teaching them how to care. But whatever >Is that really the case? Yeah. Consider any country in the ME that sees artifacts prior to the Prophet Muhammad's existence heresy. Destruction of artifacts in Iraq. Destruction of artifacts in Syria. Afghanistan famously rid itself of Buddhist statues and artifacts in the not-too-distant past. Even in the Western world, countries regularly deface and destroy statues and historical sites because prior political beliefs and mores run contrary to today's moral standards. Here's a fairly recent example: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67298103 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67298103 >"After years of controversy, the society will remove all human names for bird species, including those linked to people with racist histories. >Their goal is to create a more inclusive environment for bird-watching fans. >Seventy to 80 birds will be renamed. >"Exclusionary naming conventions developed in the 1800s, clouded by racism and misogyny, don't work for us today, and the time has come for us to transform this process and redirect the focus to the birds, where it belongs," Is literally erasing the history of people who studied and catalogued these bird species because their moral standards don't fit with our current worldviews today.

jterrys 3y ago

>Don’t put words in my mouth. I'm not. >As in financial support, advising governance structures, conservation training. Supporting institutions who already deeply care. IS literally teaching them how to care. But whatever >Is that really the case? Yeah. Consider any country in the ME that sees artifacts prior to the Prophet Muhammad's existence heresy. Destruction of artifacts in Iraq. Destruction of artifacts in Syria. Afghanistan famously rid itself of Buddhist statues and artifacts in the not-too-distant past. Even in the Western world, countries regularly deface and destroy statues and historical sites because prior political beliefs and mores run contrary to today's moral standards. Here's a fairly recent example: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67298103 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67298103 >"After years of controversy, the society will remove all human names for bird species, including those linked to people with racist histories. >Their goal is to create a more inclusive environment for bird-watching fans. >Seventy to 80 birds will be renamed. >"Exclusionary naming conventions developed in the 1800s, clouded by racism and misogyny, don't work for us today, and the time has come for us to transform this process and redirect the focus to the birds, where it belongs," Is literally erasing the history of people who studied and catalogued these bird species because their moral standards don't fit with our current worldviews today.