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Interesting write-up marred by the injection of politics: Maybe if I’m a British Museum manager, and I want to keep -theft- inventory details Ideological jabs
by hagbard_c 1y ago
Interesting write-up marred by the injection of politics: Maybe if I’m a British Museum manager, and I want to keep -theft- inventory details
Ideological jabs like this are fine in political discussions but they don't add anything elsewhere and serve only to lower the trustworthiness of what is written due to implied bias.
- pasc1878 1y agoIt is not politics. British Museum manager did steal quite a few things. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68665773 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68665773 This is not an academic piece but a blog which is trying to be light hearted.. The first sentence says "The other day I posted a tweet with this image which I thought was funny:' So not being 100% serious is to be expected.
- aaronharnly 1y agoAs an aside to this aside on the aside… I've gotten into reading Tintin books with my kid, as I did when I was about his age. They're grand adventures and sort-of progressive, for their era. But the basic structure of many of the stories is still basically "let's get this rare artifact from [South America, Africa, Asia] out of the hands of the thieves stealing it, and back into a museum in England, where it belongs!" And I gotta say it grates.
- antonvs 1y agoI imagine the location of the museum would have been different in the original French, but the same European colonial attitude applies.
- croisillon 1y ago* Belgian
- kragen 1y agoNot a thing.
- IAmBroom 1y agoYou don't believe in Belgium? Delaware, sure. But I'm pretty sure Belgium exists.
- rkomorn 1y agoI don't know anybody who calls the French spoken in Belgium "Belgian" (if only because it becomes ambiguous since Belgium also uses Dutch and German). I'm pretty sure that's what the comment was implying.
- kragen 1y agoExactly. Hergé wrote Tintin in French, not in "Belgian".
- croisillon 1y agono, my parent comment was about the museum location: if Hergé was from Québec he might have mentioned a museum in Montreal, if he was from Tahiti he might have mentioned Papeete... since he was from Belgium (a thing) he mentioned Brussels (the capital city of the thing)
- rkomorn 1y agoReplacing "French" with "Belgian" in the comment you replied to is the only way to take your "* Belgian" comment.
- croisillon 1y agothey didn't say "the original in French" but "the original French"
- novemp 1y agoThanks for the confirmation that "politics" just means "facts".
- antonvs 1y agoWhat's the implied bias? That they like facts?