When is this crap going to come to an end?
Here's another "fine" example and a crying shame:
"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn." - Ernest Hemingway
So what happens:
When I was a kid Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn were mandatory reading!
A leading museum has decided to rename any artworks that have titles which are deemed to be offensive.
In a move which is designed to get rid of the words given by non-whites to others, pictures in the digitised gallery of more than 220,000 will be targeted in the Adjustment of Colonial Terminology.
Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum has announced the project , which involves all 12 curators, and will replace words used with less 'racially charged' teminology, reports the New York Times .
For example, the 1900 painting 'Young Negro-Girl' will now be called 'Young Girl Holding a Fan'.
This artwork by Simon Maris (c.1900) features
in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
and has been renamed
'Young Girl Holding a Fan' from 'Young Negro Girl'
Who gave them the authority to do this? If any distant relatives of Simon Maris are still living they should take this to court. When a painter produces a work of art they have the right to call it whatever the hell they want. If you don't like it don't look at it. You just can't arbitrarily change history because it doesn't suit your taste!
Remember this?
Martine Gosselink, head of the history department at the Rijksmuseum, said: "We Dutch are called kaas kops, or cheeseheads, sometimes, and we wouldn't like it if we went to a museum in another country and saw descriptions of images of us as 'kaas kop woman with kaas kop child,' and that's exactly the same as what's happening here."
.@Rijksmuseum removes racially charged terms from artworks' titles (via @nytimes): http://nyti.ms/1QhCkDo
— Artsy (@artsy) 3:50 PM - 10 Dec 2015
Since the project started a month ago, about 200 descriptions have been identified and altered.
Other words which will be eradicated include 'Hottentot' - a name given by Dutch people to the Khoi people in South Africa meaning 'stutterer' - and 'Mohammedan' - an old word for Muslim once used by the West.
Since the story was carried in Dutch newspaper Het Parool, there has been critcism, but Gosselink says it's essential.
"In the Netherlands alone, there are a million people deriving from colonial roots, from Suriname, from the Antilles, from Indonesia, and so on that basis alone it's important to change this."
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