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UK’s Natural History Museum


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In response to the iconoclastic Black Lives Matter movement, the Natural History Museum has launched a review into supposedly “offensive” and “problematic” collections, including exotic birds collected by English naturalist Charles Darwin.

The review will audit rooms, statues, and items that the executive board deems offensive for possible renaming or removal, to show how “science, racism, and colonial power were inherently entwined”.

Documents revealed to The Telegraph from the review state that “in light of Black Lives Matter and the recent anti-racist demonstrations around the world”, the Natural History Museum will review “whether any statues (or collections) or could potentially cause offence”.

The review will reportedly include specimens collected by Charles Darwin on the Galapagos Islands, which were instrumental in helping the naturalist form his Theory of Evolution. A curator of the museum listed the pieces as an example of Britain’s many “colonialist scientific expeditions”.

The museum is home to a statue depicting the 19th-century naturalist, which may also come under scrutiny during the leftist assault on British history.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/09/08/natural-history-museum-review-offensive-charles-darwin-exhibits/

And the madness continues. Me thinks they need a new curator.

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We are rapidly sliding into an age of ignorance and barbarity. cui bono, and how do we stop this madness.

During the revolution in Egypt a ring of people formed around the Egyptian Museum to defend it from thieves and iconoclasts, not fully succesfully unfortunately. Do we do the same here, do we defend the British Museum and Natural History Museum, from it's own staff, now nothing more than cowards, at best, and iconoclasts.

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Looking further into this I see that Carl Linnaeus is also under attack, partly because his views are not approved by the "right on" 21st Century iconoclasts, but also because his system of classification using Latin is "wrong" as it uses a dead European language to "supplant" indigenous words. Here is an example of the ignorance of the iconoclasts in not understanding that local names are never "supplanted", and the Linnaean system of using Latin means that every scientist, no matter their mother tounge, knows precisely which species is being discussed.

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