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I agree. At the beginning I thought this was a conservation effort. Turns out to be the modern equivalent of colonisers stealing local artefacts. Why export t
by 2muchcoffeeman 2y ago
I agree. At the beginning I thought this was a conservation effort.
Turns out to be the modern equivalent of colonisers stealing local artefacts.
Why export this at all!?
- throwawaysleep 2y agoThis example is what makes much of the "stealing" claim bogus, both for this and many artifacts. The Japanese owner wanted it gone and considered it trash. It wasn't some beloved item. Even Sony didn't care. And so much of what is considered "stolen" was given away by someone in that culture as trash.
- yehat 2y agoThat's the standard excuse of a thief. "I'm not stealing it, I'm saving it". Better stop the excusing.
- throwawaysleep 2y agoExcept that the owner is the one giving it away. The current owner doesn't claim theft. The only people claiming theft are a third party that never owned the property in question or at the time gave it away freely.
- xp84 2y agoToday I learned that carefully preserving an artefact that neither its owner nor anyone else in its origin country wanted = “colonizers stealing.”
- throwawaysleep 2y agoThis is the same for a lot of supposed “theft” by museums. Lots of “priceless” objects now were at the time junk, so they were thrown away.
- TacticalCoder 2y ago[flagged]
- Loughla 2y agoAlternate theory, both are true. Western societies took advantage of multiple other societies to plunder their treasures. Those same societies didn't have the infrastructure and/or care to preserve these things themselves. Sometimes two things can be true.
- throwawaysleep 2y agoIf they do not care about them, they are not "treasures" by the standards of those cultures but rather "waste."
- HeWhoLurksLate 2y agoNot necessarily true- the majority of people don't know about 3-2-1 backup strategy and I've seen hundreds of "help! my { phone | SD card | computer } died and I lost all my family photos" posts
- prmoustache 2y agoConservation or not, that TV has been given out by its owner so there is no theft involved. Neither has it been moved out of the country by colons or illegaly. And it is a damn TV. A big one for sure but it isn't Moctezuma II headdress nor are those Devatas carved from Banteay Srei cambodian temple.