Yeah, and it is hard for many people to see the direct correlation because it isn’t hitting them in the face. I try to show people that people were smart back then, too, instead of punishing these icky mindsets because they tend to be a bit reactionary anyway. Some people just don’t know any better.
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yesman@lemmy.world 10 months agoAncient aliens literally has Nazi origins. They didn’t just have race-science, but race-history. I guess you could call their thinking ancient-Aryans because they believed that impressive structures built by brown people must have been led by a Northern European diaspora who eventually vanished because of race-mixing.
You can watch the History channel all you want, but nobody is going to question the Parthenon or the Colosseum. Stonehenge is the only one I can think of where Aliens had to help white people.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 10 months ago
CaptnNMorgan@reddthat.com 10 months ago
The two things you named were built thousands of years after the pyramids are believed to have been built though. You said it yourself, people think aliens helped with Stonehenge. That’s because it’s much older and there is no written history from when it was built.
I don’t doubt racism is factor in all sorts of aspects in life but this seems like a massive fucking stretch. Maybe come up with better examples.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 10 months ago
hyperallergic.com/…/pseudoarchaeology-and-the-rac…
Pseudoarchaeology has a pretty bad background due to the profession’s colonial roots with treasure hunters, adventurers, and the like, especially in antiquarian circles.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_archaeology
CaptnNMorgan@reddthat.com 10 months ago
So that’s great evidence for racism being in archeology in general but I still don’t see the connection between that and people crediting aliens for things we don’t completely understand.