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		dghlsakjg on Jan 19, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What was the biggest art theft in history? Your defense of British colonialism stealing art is that it preserved culture? I think that a lot more culture would have been preserved without British colonial genocides.

mcv on Jan 19, 2024 [–]

Yeah, but that's living culture. They only preserve the artifacts, so it all balances out or something.

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