Posted on 09/19/2017 8:49:15 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
People who believe in extraterrestrial life are sometimes referred to in a mocking manner. In the ‘X-Files’ TV-series Fox Mulder is often referred to as ‘Spooky,’ but according to a recent article, maybe he should be called ‘racist’– if Mulder believes that aliens built the pyramids in Africa.
The Quartz Media article, “Outlandish theories that aliens built the pyramids are rooted in racism,” by Julien Benoit is critical of those who believe the pyramids or other ancient structures were built by aliens.
Some may call this belief simply "odd," but Benoit just out and out labels it racist.
From the article:
Well, you may ask, so what? Who cares if relatively few people don’t believe the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids? What’s the harm? Actually, there is great harm: firstly, these people try to prove their theories by travelling the world and desecrating ancient artefacts. Secondly, they perpetuate and give air to the racist notion that only Europeans – white people – ever were and ever will be capable of such architectural feats.
Benoit says this racism branches out to Peru’s Nazca Lines, the stone circles of South Africa’s Mpumalanga province and other locations and cultures as well. Boiling it all down to “profound racism.”
From the article:
Why is it so hard for some to acknowledge that ancient non-European civilisations like the Aztecs, people from Easter Island, ancient Egyptians or Bantu-speakers from southern Africa could create intricate structures?
The answer is unfortunately as simple as it seems: it boils down to profound racism and a feeling of white superiority that emanates from the rotting corpse of colonialism.
If you watched Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull or any of the Transformers movies, you may have endorsed this racist idea for entertainment value. Or at least have endorsed this “feeling of white supremacy.”
Because it seems, under the right circumstances aliens from outer-space can even make you be a racist.
LOL!
Those Prymaids got to go too, they are statues to forced labor of slaves - this I know because the Bible tells me so!
Neah.
The dumbest humans alive are the feminists (or whatevers) that are saying that standing up to pee gives boys an unfair advantage in understanding physics.
Really.
https://pjmedia.com/parenting/2017/09/16/patriarchy-alert-standing-pee-gives-boys-unfair-advantage-physics/
Benoit does raise a good point about wanting to preserve ancient ruins in Africa and how ‘alternative’ narratives might damage the tourist industry that keeps these sites going. However, it seems pretty clear he's got a bias toward African archeology and origin of man theory.
Those Egyptians would be highly pi$$ed at being lumped in with sub-Saharan Africans.
I thought it was enslaved Jews who built the pyramids, under the architectural direction of Egyptians, who, it must be noted, were tribally distinct from many other tribes of Africans—just as tribes of early Europeans (Picts, Celts, Gauls, Vikings, Teutons, etc) differed from one another in physical appearance, culture, dress, and so forth.
I’m going to get drunk. I will talk to you later.
#ReptilianLivesMatter
And monuments to anti-Semitism to boot!
Yes, especially when Martians send busloads of people to their deaths on failed bridges.
Yep, people like Benoit should let the cuts under their noses heal.
Black people are heavier that white people... gravity is racist.
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