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[TIMOTHY A DICKINSON]

This is a most depressing exhibition and website. So far I have only 
looked at the website, but I will have a chance to visit the 
installation here in Toronto this summer.

Frankly, I don't know where to start in responding to it, or to whom. 
Has anyone on the list already encountered the exhibition, say in Brazil 
or Italy? Have a look at the long, multi-part curatorial statement. It's 
as if the author lives in a world to which science has contributed 
nothing positive, and imperialism has only ever been practiced by 
Europeans. The author seems to revel in the antisemitic, racist, and 
sexist tropes used in common names that they have discovered.

I don't see why botanists (who comprise people of many genders, skin 
colors, ethnicities, and religions) should have to answer for sins that 
too many people would commit if they had the opportunity to do so, 
denigrating the other, construing circumstances in their favor, and 
taking what isn't theirs. These things should be attacked directly, as 
capitalism (exploitation of others), or religious chauvinism (the 
Christian roots of antisemitism), or the unfairness of gender stereotypes.

---tad.

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