Listen up, because this one's a doozy even for the professional victims over in Glasgow. Kelvingrove Art Gallery just pulled their Egyptian mummies off display because the 4,000-year-old corpses never signed a consent form. That's right. The dead priest Nekht, a mummified hand from the Valley of the Kings, a head, and a foot are all in timeout because some bureaucrat decided the ancient Egyptians didn't fill out the proper paperwork before getting buried.
A sign now sits where the exhibits used to be: "We have removed human remains from this display as a mark of respect." Respect for who? The guy who's been dead longer than Scotland has had running water? Glasgow Life, the council-funded outfit running the place, cited some updated International Council of Museums code of ethics that says museums should uphold the "inherent dignity" of human remains. Their draft policy says only display remains if you have documented informed consent from the deceased or their descendants. Good luck getting a signature from someone who was wrapped in linen when the pyramids were still new.
This is what happens when the left's obsession with feelings and process eats the actual point of a museum. People go to see mummies because they're fascinating. Kids get excited about ancient Egypt. Now a little girl shows up with her book and finds a empty case and a lecture about consent. The SNP-led council is getting roasted for this, and rightly so. It's peak woke: treating the dead like they need a modern HR department.
Imagine applying this logic anywhere else. No more dinosaur bones because the T-Rex didn't agree to be a fossil. No more art from people who didn't sign model releases. The whole point of history is that the people who lived it didn't get a vote on how we remember them. They were busy dying of dysentery or getting stabbed by rivals. The museum's job is to show what was, not to project 2026 sensitivity seminars onto the Bronze Age.
Critics are calling it woke madness, and they're not wrong. Other museums still display mummies without this nonsense. The Louvre isn't asking Tutankhamun for a permission slip. But in Glasgow, the priority is making sure no one is offended by the existence of the past. Next up: apologizing to the Sphinx for staring.
This isn't respect. It's erasure dressed up as ethics. The dead don't care. They're dead. The living who want to learn about them do. Democrats and their European cousins keep proving they'll sacrifice anything real for the appearance of moral superiority. The mummies are gone, the kids are disappointed, and the bureaucrats get to feel virtuous. Classic.
At the end of the day, this is just another reminder that the left would rather police ghosts than deal with the living. If your museum needs consent from corpses, maybe you're in the wrong business. History doesn't ask permission. It just is. And the people trying to sanitize it for modern feelings are the ones who look ridiculous.
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