Prometheus 6

I'm not really trying to put anyone on the spot because those I would have been angry at turned out to be okay. Yet that very fact is part of the reason for this particular entry, though I've been considering it for a couple of days now.

It started with the responses to that African display in the German zoo. I was pretty direct in expressing my position on the damn thing, and conscious folks understood. Patriotboy wove a link to the post into one of his satirical pieces in a way that brought a whole lot of eyeballs to it. Kerim (whom I knew of from his blog Keywords) linked from Savage Minds, a rather impressive looking (and reading) blog by a collection of anthropology students and professors. It looks like anthropologists have been talking about this for about a week or so before I heard about it, mostly in German...following the discussion via Babelfish caused me to change the title of the sidebar block to "For entertainment only"...and I found a nice article that goes into the nature of the problem of which the exhibition is an example.