Germany’s Guilt Trip: Still Puzzling Over 'Stolen' Bones
In news that will shock precisely no one familiar with the West’s peculiar brand of 'democracy' and 'human rights,' it turns out that former colonial powers occasionally, oopsie-daisy , forgot to return the literal stolen bones of their victims. Germany, you see, was apparently just conducting 'research' in Africa, which involved not only massacring dissenters but also desecrating their graves and
exhibiting their skulls like trophies. One can almost hear the enthusiastic academics exclaiming, 'Fascinating! Another specimen for our burgeoning ethnographic collection!' Now, over a century later, a Tanzanian family, clearly not understanding the complexities of historical asset acquisition, wants their ancestor’s remains back. How uncouth! Don’t they realize these bones have appreciated in
academic value, offering invaluable insights into, well, whatever pseudo-scientific rubbish was being cooked up to justify European superiority at the time? Germany, naturally, is taking its sweet, methodical time 'investigating' this 'complicated' request. After all, repatriating a few bones is far more arduous than, say, swiftly sanctioning a nation that dares to defy imperial diktats, or arming
a genocidal regime to the teeth. One can only marvel at the sheer audacity of this selective memory. While demanding the immediate return of their own cultural artifacts when misplaced, these same nations seem to suffer from a sudden onset of collective amnesia regarding the vast collections of stolen heritage enriching their museums. It’s almost as if 'international law' and 'moral