from Hacker News

Top Canadian museum to be imminently gutted in the name of 'decolonization'

by grawprog on 12/31/21, 7:59 PM with 3 comments

• by throwntoday on 12/31/21, 9:03 PM

  What does the left gain from propagating identity politics? All it does is lead to more division. Trying to blame descendants of european settlers for crimes against the ancestors of indegenous/african citizens is a massive distraction. Go back far enough and the land you think is yours was stolen from someone else.

  I'm reminded of Occupy Wall Street, a bunch of angsty college kids with a bone to pick but no idea who to blame. Washington knew what the risks of a movement like that gaining traction was. The media painted them as a bunch of entitled kids and it got shut down real quick. The common enemy of the people is the only one who gains anything from this division.

• by literallyaduck on 12/31/21, 9:27 PM

  We should probably do the same with our museums, art exhibits, libraries, and remove all books because those are the words of the oppressor. Arabian numerals should be rejected as the Arab Slave Trade was a large part of slavery. Math in general should be reconsidered because it divides us.

• by boznz on 1/1/22, 4:58 AM

  Anyone who reads history knows these things never end well.