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[-] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 3 points 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.

[-] jamhandy@lemmy.ml 14 points 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

[-] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 0 points 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.

[-] birbs@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

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

[-] PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago
[-] Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Unnecessarily insulting and broad statement there.

[-] LazyBane@lemmy.world 2 points 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.

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