After Brexit, Britain may finally lose its Marbles — specifically the ones they stole from Greece

[alahmnat]

@fuzzyfungus

I don’t want to excuse the truly epic appropriators of history by reference to the appropriations of the lesser ones(and the British empire and the contemporary nation state of Greece certainly qualify for those two roles, respectively); but it is a bit of a historical liberty for the contemporary Greece to treat its right to some Athenian artifacts as somehow natural and uncomplicated by a long history of various owners and potential owners getting squished.

I mean, at the very least at least Greece has an extremely valid geographic claim to wanting the marbles back in the same place that they originally came from, all cultural and sociopolitical concerns aside.