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Embarrassing coal (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 100 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (8 children)

It's a museum. It doesn't say "coal mining is a great technology of the future". It says "here's this thing of the past we used to do". Or do you also expect a paleontological museum to only employ dinosaurs?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I bet WW2 museum employees aren't even real Nazis!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I the US I bet it's like 50/50 if nazi museum workers would be actual Nazis.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

A man can dream.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I heard of a really cool project awhile ago where they were proudly sparing no expense. Hopefully nothing went wrong.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm volunteering at an animal hospital.

Animal Hospital?!?

The animals are the patients.

Oh. That makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Animal Hospital:

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

do you alsl expect a paleontological museum to only employe dinosaurs?

I don't, but I wish they did.

It doesn’t say “coal mining is a great technology of the future”.

I mean, it very well might. Wouldn't be the first museum bankrolled by the wealthiest industry in town. But saving money on electricity costs is a thing a lot of businesses do for their own bottom line while advocating other people stick to the expensive way.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Went to check. Turns out this time it's not the case.

http://kycoalmuseum.southeast.kctcs.edu/about_us/index.aspx

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I don't see anything in this link explaining who is funding the museum.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Follow-up: http://kycoalmuseum.southeast.kctcs.edu/about_us/index.aspx

The Museum's founders were very much aware that a large majority of mining communities around Appalachia and, indeed, around the state and nation no longer exist. Many individuals who grew up in these coal camp communities now have sons, daughters, and grandchildren who have grown up hearing the stories about what life was like in the coal camps. However, for many of those people who want to share that coal camp experience with their own children and grandchildren they cannot go home again, because so many of the state's mining communities have been abandoned and torn down. It was with this thought in mind that the Museum's collection was assembled and is housed in the wonderfully-restored Benham company store.

The goal in the development of the Museum, was to tell the story. It is the story of coal in Kentucky, and the story of the thousands of workers, most of who came from the Deep South and Eastern Europe to escape poverty, and build a better life for their families. Their stories are told at the Kentucky Coal Museum, perhaps as well as they are told anywhere in the world.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Yeah if anything I'd expect a coal mining museum to be way more aware of the impact of their energy source and be more likely to switch to solar.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

To be fair, the Confederate Museum is indeed how cool being racist is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yes, were are the dinosaur employees?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 months ago

Ignorance of the past isn’t really an excuse to keep being ignorant of the future.

“It’s a museum” is a reason why people ignored the British outright stealing India’s cultural heritage.

Sure it COULD be a monument to the ignorant usage of petroleum. But why are you so desperate to make it such?