A severe cunting please for the National Museum of Wales which has decided in its wisdom to cancel a replica of Richard Trevithick’s first steam-powered locomotive due to its connection to…. SLAVERY!
Despite the fact that it has NO connection to slavery whatso-fucking-ever!
Trevithick’s locomotive was used in the first steam-powered railway journey that took place at the Penydarren Ironworks in Merthyr Tydfil, in Wales in 1804. Inconveniently, its Cornish inventor had no personal links to slavery, but was a racist cos he was white and his invention has never benefited anyone who isn’t white cos no person of colour has ever been known to travel on a train ever*.
But through a clever sleight of hand the museum has determined that links between steam train technology and the slave trade might exist, ergo the invention is “rooted in colonialism and racism”.
* Except when shovelling coal in its boiler.
The museum pledges to: “identify collections linked to colonial aggression and the transatlantic slave trade. This will form part of our wider decolonising work.”
Nominated by: Ruff Tuff Creampuff