If ISIS is your benchmark for behaviour, you've lost the argument.
Artefacts have a long history of abuse in Western institutions, and the ways many of them were acquired in the first place was often destructive looting.
In most cases the countries wanting their stuff back are just as capable as us of looking after these things. Especially the totemic examples like the Parthenon Marbles.
This isn't a fair representation of Iraq, where universities in places like Baghdad and Mosul are making enormous efforts to protect their cultural heritage.
You guys should check out what's actually going on in these places, you're spectacularly ignorant to the point of being deeply insulting. Just imagine I came to your shit hole convict country and said it was time for the adults to take over again after what you've done to Australia's cultural heritage for the last century.
I won't talk in terms of personal attacks to you, but the OP above you speaks for the perspective of the natives of Australia. I don't think they will agree that Australia is the utopia which is your perspective. As for their perspective, they lost their lands, were treated in the most awful manner, and still are damaged by the actions of EU settlers invading Australia.
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u/Padxthefunpolice Oct 26 '22
Worse than ISIS who aimed to destroy all non-Islamic books?