Historian Thinks Museums Should Reconsider European Art Because of White Supremacy
“Europe’s cultural prestige is their evidence for the racial superiority of white America”
The left is determined to erase history. They’re succeeding by doing it a little bit at a time. This is just the latest example.
The College Fix reports:
Historian: Museums need to ‘reconsider’ European art exhibits because … white supremacy
A Philadelphia-based art historian and curator believes exhibitions of European art in American museums should be “reconsidered” in light of “a surge in white supremacist violence” across the country.
Alexander Kaufmann says that “[b]ecause the centering of Europe is baked into the architecture” of museums, and “usually inhabit the largest and most central galleries,” people might not notice a connection to white supremacy.
“But white supremacists do,” he adds ominously.
“Europe’s cultural prestige is their evidence for the racial superiority of white America,” Kaufmann writes in Hyperallergic. White supremacists and white nationalists gather at museums because that’s “where Europe’s cultural patrimony is most visibly singled out as exceptional.”
White supremacy notwithstanding, American museums’ original missions — “provid[ing] instruction for the industrial classes” and helping the country achieve the goal of becoming the “noblest development of humanity” — have long required a response, Kaufmann argues, and the activism of groups like the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition and the Guerrilla Girls can provide just that.
“After the violence in Charlottesville, Charleston, and Pittsburgh,” Kaufmann says, “our encyclopedic museums must take steps within their galleries of European Art to combat white supremacist ideology.” (But are women who run around in gorilla masks “to expose gender and ethnic bias [and] corruption in politics, art, film, and pop culture” really part of a serious solution?)
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hang in there, ‘professor’, soon enuf, when the “religion of peace” begins to assert itself, all of this, and you, will be destroyed…
It gets even more pervasive outside the museum. That damn Western Civilization is everywhere.
Ashkenazi Jews (Average IQ 112), Asians (average IQ 106)and Caucasians (average IQ 100) are all examples of ongoing evolutionary improvements in humanity. It is not their fault that some other people were left behind by evolution.
Perhaps improved humanity should stop short circuiting evolution by ceasing feeding unimproved humanity (average IQ of mid eighties to as low as 59)? Allow them to be molded by the same forces which drove European success and culture, eventually their average IQ will rise.