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  • Freethenip [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    So teaching people about the tragedy that most Americans have no idea about is a bad thing? It’s a forensic anthropology course. It’s disrespectful to use human remains without the permission of the family but how about death to the cops that dropped the bombs not random people trying to educate.

    • coeliacmccarthy [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Freethenip, c.1910: "Wounded Knee was an atrocity and the university is doing an important educatory service by turning the children's skeletons into marionettes and making them perform native dances, why are you impugning their memory?"

      These are the bones of a child killed by cops who would be 40 years old today. They're being waved around in front of a camera and called juicy for 5,000 students (mostly coming from wealth and privilege, natch). Like, it's worse that the cops killed the children, correct. But there's something profoundly ghoulish about adopting social justice rhetoric at the exact same moment as you desecrate the remains of children killed by cops. It's fucking creepy

      • Freethenip [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        I agree it’s morbid and weird but when your job is to analyze human bones it’s gonna be weird. Also yeah anthropology and the university system is racist as fuck.

        • coeliacmccarthy [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          I literally have an anthropology graduate degree. I have worked with human remains. This is disgusting and creepy and I would be horrified if one of my colleagues did this.

            • coeliacmccarthy [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              a bone of a person who died in the 80s and that still smells like decomposing human lipids? zero, I'd hope. I've licked many a fragment of bone myself although none of it was human to my knowledge

  • Parzivus [any]
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    4 years ago

    Idk this doesn't seem too bad

    Juicy bones

    Wait what

    displaying the remains without the permission of the girls family

    How is that even legal :what-the-hell:

  • DirtbagVegan [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I've heard of like "Black trauma porn," where depictions of the violence done to POC in this country is used to shock people. This is like the final boss of that.