#like yeah. lol. thats kind of the whole thing about 'natural history museums' that have human remains. thats kind of the whole. NAGPRA thin

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I unfollowed a fanfic author I'd been following for years because they made fun of people who are against death tourism. Like sorry that my cultural relationship with death and the centuries of my people's graves being desecrated and their bodies displayed in museums has made me not super thrilled with the idea of treating the graves of people who died horrific deaths like they're just a cool tourism site for your travel blog 🙄

i think SO SO SO much still about the dickson mounds "museum" that we learned about / watched a documentary about in my THPO class which OOPS!! was in illinois. which doesnt surprise me bc ive been repeatedly told to check out "Starved Rock" ! so named because they rounded up indians there and starved them to death. its a beautiful picnic grounds now where you can have your childs birthday party! :)

sorry but if u go "umm but if i cant go walk around graves and gawk at corpses then that means a lot of places will need to be ~canceled~" like... yeah. lol. a lot of places arent good. u think jewish people are super excited and happy to have their loved ones on display in shoah museums? but oh thank goodness, you "learned something" from it.

at that pt yall sound indistinguishable from the white yankee moms shouting down reporter microphones about how the redskins doing their evil mean stunt where they (checks notes) covered up the human remains that were dug up so people could walk around in the "death pit" and look at the dead people up close and look at dead indians on the roadside in desecrated graves... that led to the exhibition being closed .. is cruel and evil and "how will i teach my children about death now? theyve done us all a disservice by robbing us of a great teaching moment"

sorry some people & cultures think its inappropriate to gawk at mass graves. learn your history lessons somewhere fucking else. peoples bodies are not your "teaching moment"

#oiuguhgg someone rbed some post like that on my feed the other day and i cant like. remember who it was but im not mad enough to find out #and unfollow or anyth. i get it. its just like. think for more than a couple moments past 'but that would make so many museums ~canceled~!' #like yeah. lol. thats kind of the whole thing about 'natural history museums' that have human remains. thats kind of the whole. NAGPRA thin #and idk. basic decency and respect? but white folk havent heard of that #they dont realize its kinda rude to dig up peoples families and put them on display in an act of literal exhibitionism/voyeurism #i can agree 2 disagree but if someone mocked ppl not agreeing with it id be like okay baiiiiii !! good on u anon #death - #anompolili