[CPProt.net] FULL SUPPORT FOR THE LIST! KEEP IT COMING.

[Don Messerschmidt]

Writing from Kathmandu... I agree with Alexander Bauer's comments below.
This is a list of ALL opinions, and those who cut it off because they 
don't agree with or 'don't want to hear' opinions and ideas contrary to 
their own are narrow and petty.

Please keep the list coming with ALL points of view, political, social, 
artistic, etc.

Keep me ON the list - positively!

//Don Messerschmidt

Alexander Bauer wrote:

> A word from someone who cares about the future of this list:
>
> Let's not do this again, everybody.
>
> Please remember that the cpprot mailinglist (and the museum security 
> network before it) allows for the circulation of information and 
> articles about cultural property issues, of which the artnose piece 
> was one.  You do not have to agree with every article that is 
> published, but does it get us anywhere to refuse to hear any side of 
> an issue that does not conform to our own views?
>
> I am surprised that such outbursts have continued, and even happened 
> in the first place, in fact, on an email list that revolves around 
> cultural property issues--one of the most contentious topics there 
> is.  Yes, many people's ethnic and national identities are tied to 
> such property.  Yes, it is a sensitive issue, and I thought we all 
> knew this.  Plenty of people on this list must have had very close 
> emotional reactions to other topics addressed here over the years--the 
> Parthenon (Elgin) Marbles, the Ethiopian remains in Italy, the list 
> can go on--but we have done our best during this time to contain such 
> outbursts.  I think this has been for the better, as it has resulted 
> in a list that keeps us all informed about the many sides of these 
> always difficult issues.
>
> There is certainly little purpose in a list that only tells us what we 
> want to hear (cnn is a pretty good example of this).  It is for all 
> our benefit to hear different views, even if they are not appealing, 
> even if they do not always seem grounded in "fact".  How many of us 
> think that both sides of the US v. Shultz case, for example, are being 
> completely "accurate" in their presentation of their case?  Should we 
> silence one side altogether?  Which would it be?  This is certainly 
> not the American Way in the sense that I am proud of.  So let us not 
> continue to shout every time a point of view we deign to disagree with 
> is posted, or else we will destroy one of the few remaining venues 
> where cultural property issues may be aired with equanimity.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Alexander A. Bauer
>
> Dept. of Anthropology
> University of Pennsylvania
> 325 University of Pennsylvania Museum
> 33rd and Spruce Sts.
> Philadelphia, PA  19104
> www.sas.upenn.edu/~bauer2
>
>
>
> On Sunday, April 13, 2003, at 10:44  PM, Wallace E Sisson wrote:
>
>> I do not expect to see biased political junk on this informational
>> website...IT DOESN'T BELONG HERE!!!
>>
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