It is insane because this alienates the demographics that appreciate everything you are denouncing here: European history, art, culture, colonialism, civilizational accomplishment etc. Everything that created the very art housed withing the museums.
Even if one is not apart of this heritage, this should be respected as the foundation of the art itself.
> European history, art, culture, colonialism, civilizational accomplishment etc. Everything that created the very art housed withing the museums.
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic here? Many museums are stuffed with objects taken from around the world, often forecfully. There was such pressure on other cultures to provide objects for Europe that there's even a display in Rotterdam's Wereldmuseum of fascinating objects from the Congo that were made with an intentionally brutal "primitive" aesthetic because that's what the Europeans wanted from them. They even went to the trouble of inventing rotuals associated with these objects.
I guess you could argue that those pieces were somehow created through European colonialism, but even then the designs and implementation were all Congolese.
I think the people who appreciate colonialism are indeed being denounced very intentionally by more and more of the world's cultural insitutions. It's very much intentional.
Even if one is not apart of this heritage, this should be respected as the foundation of the art itself.