The managing curators of the British Museum have been accused of being ‘woke’ and virtue signaling to the public after banning the word ‘mummy.’ The museum claims they “don’t want to offend dead Egyptians.”

You might think it would be impossible to hurt the feelings and trigger the social sensitivities of a 3,000-year-old corpse. Still, British Museum staff have found a way. Don’t use the word “mummy,” they say, because “it’s offensive to ancient Egyptians” and dehumanizes dead people.

Decision makers at The British Museum claim they have banned the term ‘mummy’ out of respect for 3,000-year-old dead Egyptians. To replace ‘mummy,’ the museum deems the term ‘mummified people’ to be more politically correct.

The Evolution Of Woke to Wokeness

When I read stories like this, I generally cringe. Like all writers, I cannot mention the term ‘woke’ without triggering and offending many. This is because the word is usually used in a derogatory way, and according to a recent report in Forbes, the term ‘woke’ is deemed “an offensive cultural appropriation.”

The reason sensitivities are associated with this word is that the phrase “stay woke” originated within America’s Black community more than a decade ago, where it meant “stay vigilant,” “don’t be fooled,” and “don’t sleep.”

There seem to be several people with too much time on their hands at the British Museum, and I’m not talking about the mummies.