[hagbard_c]

Interesting write-up marred by the injection of politics: Maybe if I’m a British Museum manager, and I want to keep -theft- inventory details

Ideological jabs like this are fine in political discussions but they don't add anything elsewhere and serve only to lower the trustworthiness of what is written due to implied bias.

[pasc1878]

It is not politics. British Museum manager did steal quite a few things. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68665773

This is not an academic piece but a blog which is trying to be light hearted.. The first sentence says "The other day I posted a tweet with this image which I thought was funny:' So not being 100% serious is to be expected.

[aaronharnly]

As an aside to this aside on the aside…

I've gotten into reading Tintin books with my kid, as I did when I was about his age. They're grand adventures and sort-of progressive, for their era.

But the basic structure of many of the stories is still basically "let's get this rare artifact from [South America, Africa, Asia] out of the hands of the thieves stealing it, and back into a museum in England, where it belongs!" And I gotta say it grates.

[antonvs]

I imagine the location of the museum would have been different in the original French, but the same European colonial attitude applies.

[croisillon]

* Belgian

[ascorbic]

They were written in French.

[kragen]

Not a thing.

[IAmBroom]

You don't believe in Belgium?

Delaware, sure. But I'm pretty sure Belgium exists.

[rkomorn]

I don't know anybody who calls the French spoken in Belgium "Belgian" (if only because it becomes ambiguous since Belgium also uses Dutch and German).

I'm pretty sure that's what the comment was implying.

[antonvs]

What's the implied bias? That they like facts?

[novemp]

Thanks for the confirmation that "politics" just means "facts".