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I think there is often a racist subtext to claims that 'the Egyptians couldn't have built the pyramids'. Why? Because they were Africans?
by hermitcrab 10mo ago
I think there is often a racist subtext to claims that 'the Egyptians couldn't have built the pyramids'. Why? Because they were Africans?
- subjectsigma 10mo agoGeez. “It must be racism!” is almost as bad as “It must be aliens!”
- DonHopkins 10mo ago[dead]
- subjectsigma 10mo agoSo Trump is racist therefore von Däniken is also? There’s plenty to criticize about ancient alien bozos, we don’t need to fabricate additional reasons to dislike them
- throw4847285 10mo agoJust peruse the list of great works that Ancient Aliens proponents claim could not have been built by the people who built them. Do they make that claim about the Parthenon? No. Other than Stonehenge, it's all stuff built outside of Western Civilization. It could be a series of coincidences, or it could be old strains of racist anthropology, briefly suppressed by Boasian Cultural Anthropology, finding a new conspiratorial outlet.
- subjectsigma 10mo agoThere’s an Ancient Aliens episodes about the Antithykera Mechanism and pyramids in Italy. https://youtu.be/wY7LXJI8Ago https://youtu.be/wY7LXJI8Ago https://diggingupancientaliens.com/episode-65-europes-only-pyramid.html https://diggingupancientaliens.com/episode-65-europes-only-p... Careful clicking that YouTube link, my recommend feed is ruined now