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susinpgh OP t1_itwyd7p wrote
That's exactly right.
kworkbos t1_ituo0b7 wrote
I'm pretty sure we all know why
_KnightsDelight_ t1_ity662m wrote
Why?
kworkbos t1_itzgmyq wrote
because she was black and therefore not treated as a human by cops, government, and academia.
but you absolutely knew that and are being disingenuous ([not candid or sincere, typically by pretending that one knows less about something than one really does.] (https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=disingenuous)).
No-Razzmatazz- t1_itzhpjs wrote
Why do you think someone is expected to know that? The police kill thousands of black people who don't end up in museums. It really isn't something that you would expect.
susinpgh OP t1_itzlohi wrote
I think the point is that it is more likely to expect this type of chauvinism to impact minorities. The museum also houses the skulls of slaves.
TheWorldInMySilence t1_ituowf8 wrote
Paywall
susinpgh OP t1_itupwf5 wrote
This article is about the appropriation of human remains for display and study in an academic setting. There is a lot of controversy about the practice.
>In early 2019, Janet Monge, then an associate curator at the University of Pennsylvania’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, filmed a class called “Real Bones: Adventures in Forensic Anthropology” for the online education platform Coursera. The goal of the course was to demonstrate how scientists can restore what she called “lost personhood” to the unidentified victims of crimes and natural disasters. “They’ve lost individual identity, so our function is actually to restore parts of that identity,” she explained.
Odd-Neighborhood5119 t1_iudtlxp wrote
Wait a minute. This was in the news quite a while and I believe it was resolved
susinpgh OP t1_iue15ip wrote
It looks like it's resurfaced for some reason. Maybe it wasn't fully resolved, or the resolution needs to be revisited?
joefred111 t1_itwow3n wrote
We're talking about a young child whose home was literally bombed by a Philly P.D. chopper, which caused a firestorm and destroyed entire city blocks..
This child has living, still-grieving mother, who never gave consent for her bones to be used as a teaching aide in an Ivy League School.
It's despicable.