• SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    Don’t bring this up with British people. They have brainrot from decades and decades of conservative propaganda, even if they are otherwise left-leaning, and will often result in the stupidest arguments just because they haven’t bothered to spend 5 minutes to think about them.

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      7 months ago

      Or, you know, they just agree that the artifacts should just be returned.

      Generalising across a while group, let alone a nationality, is just plain dumb

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        7 months ago

        Fair enough. It’s just incredibly disheartening to find how certain kinds of chauvinistic attitudes that belong in the 19th century are so widespread even amongst people I expected would know better.

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      7 months ago

      I’m British, visited an anthropology museum last week and left feeling angry. Give it all back.

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      7 months ago

      Most people over here are pro-returning artifacts. It’s just that it’s a common anti-British talking point and not many people actually have the agency affect what happens with the artifacts, so eventually it just gets frustrating to hear about all the time.