"we won't give items back to their countries because we are better stewards of them"
"whoopsie daisy we lost a bunch of stuff"
this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2023
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Give them back to who? England?
No, they're commenting on the justification you sometimes hear about why British institutions need to keep the cultural artifacts they looted from other countries in the past. Specifically, "we're better equipped to preserve these items because your country is too poor/politically unstable/humid/whatever to be responsible to do so on your own." Point here is that the British have been having a hard time lately keeping track of their own cultural treasures.
I don't think that justification is particularly good to begin with, but it's extra embarrassing when it comes out that you're actually pretty incompetent at retaining and preserving items.