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Empire bad. Hurr durr British Museum stole stuff from other countries.
What annoys me about this take is that it's reached a kind of meme status, meaning people repeat it without question.
As an example of how bad it's gotten, there was that one scene in
Black Panther (201

comes to mind where the "sympathetic" villain steals an artefact from a museum because British soldiers stole it.
But of course, when Museums
do give art and artefacts back to the barely functional third-world holes that they came from, they promptly disappear into the hands of private collectors, no longer to be displayed museums where millions of people can see them for free. Such as what happened with the
Benin Bronzes. If they do this to the British Museum, it would be a travesty.
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I should not expect so much from an account that mainly posts engagement-bait, but it's still disappointing to see Historic Vids repeat this lie.
It's not even called the "British Royal Museum" for fuck's sake. It's just the "British Museum". But I guess they subconsciously added "Royal" because it sounded more wealthy and aristocratic.