Racist, sexist and ableist ==> Cancelled!

[vetran]

Though why anyone would find the need to apologise for one legged lesbians strikes me as being barmy.

Because they are hopping mad?

[Zigenare]

You can always read what the Wellcome Foundation themselves have said regarding the collection.

https://wellcomecollection.org/pages/YLnsihAAACEAfsuu

It sounds like they've acquired a couple of left wing, lentil eating, whale hugging, one legged lesbian apologists amongst their ranks.

Though why anyone would find the need to apologise for one legged lesbians strikes me as being barmy.

[SueEllen]

Society seems to be come more woke (as in the proper US meaning of the word e.g. alert to injustice in society) the longer the Tories are in power.

Look at the kind of people who demonstrated against the Poll Tax before the riots when Thatcher was in power.

[vetran]

Odd - we still have a Tory government

I said vaguely competent!

[SueEllen]

Odd - we still have a Tory government

[vetran]

obviously being vaguely competent is racist etc nowadays.

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Then (2013):

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20055213

The Wellcome Collection in London has unveiled a major £17.5 million expansion project.

The science-based exhibition space and library was originally designed to accommodate 100,000 yearly visits for the "incurably curious".

Clare Matterson, the venue's director of medical humanities and engagement, said its "phenomenal success" was a "wonderful affirmation of our conviction that adults are interested and inspired by complex themes that make connections across science, history, art and health".

She added: "Each part of our new development adds to the legacy of Sir Henry Wellcome's intellectual curiosity, his research and collections."

Sir Henry, who died in 1936, was a pharmaceutical pioneer, philanthropist and archaeologist who co-founded a multi-national pharmaceutical company and used his profits to fund medical research.


Now (2022):

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63772864

A museum in London is closing one of its main exhibitions following concerns over "racist, sexist and ableist theories and language".

The Wellcome Collection says the Medicine Man display will end on Sunday after a 15-year run.

Founder Henry Wellcome, who died in 1936, collected more than a million objects to give an insight into global health and medicine.

It added that exhibiting the collection of paintings, books and anatomical models told a colonial story of a man with "enormous wealth, power and privilege".

But the display still perpetuates a version of medical history that is based on racist, sexist and ableist theories and language."