In "The British Museum’s Blockbuster Scandals" (The New Yorker, 13 May 2024), Rebecca Mead writes, "[...] the acquisition of the Elgin Marbles [in 1816] was controversial from the start (Lord Byron decried their removal from the Acropolis as vandalism)". And while reviewing "The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church", by Rachel L. Swarns (The New York Review of Books, 23 May 2024), Tiya Miles writes, "[...] every [antebellum] argument for slavery and human sale presented by a Jesuit priest or church leader was countered by other members of the faith". Such examples undermine claiming that criticism of past colonialism and enslavement constitutes "presentism". (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 19 August 2024)
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