The row centres around the exhibition ‘This is Colonialism’ and the museum’s decision to restrict white people from entering a small section of the display

Police officers are gathered in front of the Zeche Zollern museum in Dortmund, the focus of what social networks are describing as a racism scandal.

The row centres around the exhibition ‘This is Colonialism’ and the museum’s decision to restrict white people from entering a small section of the display. For several months now, Saturdays at the museum have been reserved for black people and people of colour to explore a colonialism exhibition

The museum claims the objective is not to be discriminatory, but to reserve a safe space for reflection for non-whites.

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    Been kicked out of a few have you? Or have you just happened to have repeatedly seen unruly people in them often enough to be able to confidently say they’ll promptly be removed?

    I am - or rather, was - a constant visitor to museums of various kinds. Ones with no admission fee and small museums suffered more from the problem, though I wouldn’t say it was ever common.

    Sounds like it isn’t a very safe place for some people.

    “Issues of disorder or creating public unease are promptly resolved.”

    “Sounds unsafe!”

    ???

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      They were still there in the first place. Is a bar that has 2 stabbings a night “safe” if the people with knives are promptly removed?

      Your “there’s nothing to worry about” comment just showed there was something to worry about.

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        They were still there in the first place. Is a bar that has 2 stabbings a night “safe” if the people with knives are promptly removed?

        People being escorted out for being disorderly is very far from a stabbing, and furthermore, there are no public venues of any kind that lack disorderly conduct entirely. I don’t really know what you’re trying to get at here.

        Your “there’s nothing to worry about” comment just showed there was something to worry about.

        So by that standard, if there are any incidents of disorder in these narrowed racial colonialism discussion groups, we should regard them as unsafe and seek to further narrow the criteria? For the safety of the people there, who are clearly unsafe from the presence of any incidents of disorder, of any magnitude, ever.