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What a crazy story. The comments here are crazier, though.

• dist-epoch 3y ago
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  • mjburgess 3y ago
    The issue is as much a diagnosis of the academic culture which came to this decision: it's quite alarming that academics are on the side of 'cultural sensitivities' rather than against them. We have churches; we have political parties. What use is an academia that prays and "advocates for change" ? Academia should, by any reasonable sense of its mission, defend the preservation of works to be studied; regardless of their historical origins. They should be dragged kicking and screaming into destroying anything. Who, if not academics? History cannot be made 'respectable' -- and what a nightmare if academia tries to make it so.
    • dist-epoch 3y ago
      > defend the preservation of works to be studied If someone today makes a human-centipede, like in the movie, and declares it art, are academics supposed to advocate for preserving it for ever and study it just because it happened?
      • FrustratedMonky 3y ago
        The key to your example is, if they are alive. Cadavers are used in medical school. Where is the moral outrage.