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A video has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times on Facebook alongside a claim it shows the mummy of an ancient Burmese prince on display in the US. The claim is false; the image actually shows the glass coffin of a catacomb saint at a church in Austria s Tyrol state.
The video has been viewed more than 400,000 times since it was published here on Facebook on January 4, 2021. It has been shared more than 4,000 times.
Screenshot of the misleading post, taken on January 7, 2020
The Burmese-language title of the video translates as: “The mummy of a Burmese prince in the United States”.
Darkly was an illuminating, insightful read that gave me pause with every sentence. Part personal memoir, part cultural critique, part valuable history lesson, Taylor meditates on the Black experience and gothic culture through a collection of observations on music, film, art, philosophy, architecture, decay, and violence– and through these observations invites us to more closely analyze and question the aesthetics of those dark things we hold dear.
Something that struck me, in particular, is where Taylor asserts that: “goth is above all privileging the imagination over reason, choosing the fanciful over the pragmatic, forgoing restraint for excess,” and she further comments on the privilege of this frivolity and how this ostentatiousness is typically seen as a sentiment only for white people. That Blacks must be ever vigilant (due to the very justified paranoia that they can’t afford distraction) and therefore there’s this sense of gravitas or this sense of pride that th