According to the latest news column regarding political correctness gone overboard, a museum has announced that it has removed all its mummies from public exhibits because officials never obtained “informed consent” from the deceased.
A report posted by the Daily Mail said the bosses of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum have created a new “woke” row with their actions.
The agenda was revealed when a museum visitor posted a social media image of a museum sign: “We have removed human remains from this display as a mark of respect.”
“This is woke madness at its most ridiculous,” condemned Scottish Tory culture spokesman Murdo Fraser.
“Even Egyptian mummies are now being cancelled by a society so obsessed with modern sensibilities that it has lost all sense of perspective. People visit museums to learn about ancient civilisations, not to see history hidden away because it fails to meet today’s ideological standards.”
Items now hidden from view include a “painted coffin containing the remains of the priest Nekht, a mummified male head, a mummified right hand recovered from the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt and a mummified right foot,” the report said.
Glasgow Life, which runs the museum, said it will work next to sanitize exhibits at St. Mungo Museum.
Mummies actually have been used in museums, along with other human remains and artifacts including coffins, for generations.
A former adviser at 10 Downing Street, said: “This is more virtue-signaling, woke nonsense. It represents the triumph of educational stupidity and ignorance. It is not possible to seek permission from those who died thousands of years ago.”
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[ H/T WorldNetDaily ]