• Chainweasel@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    He paid for it, it’s his art to destroy now.
    If you don’t like that, or think I’m being insensitive, then maybe we shouldn’t let rich people buy and hoard art.
    If they’re culturally or historically important, why are they in a private collection?
    Is it sad to see? Yes, absolutely. But not any more sad than it falling into the hands of a private collector in the first place.

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        9 months ago

        Assange is not really a whistleblower… He’s a journalist who published the content whistleblowers gave him

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      9 months ago

      If they’re culturally or historically important, why are they in a private collection?

      That’s a really, really crap argument that is permissive of all kinds of cultural genocide. A LOT of artwork is in private collections that by no right should be. I make no claims about this guy’s collection, but the mere fact that it is being bought and sold has no bearing. After all, I live in country that used to “legally” buy and sell people.

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        9 months ago

        Read more than the first sentence of the comment.