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The idea that aliens built the pyramids is racist.

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No one ever asks who built the pyramids in mexico for similarly racist reasons.

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I blame Quetzalcōātl, obviously.

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Damn fluffy snake making pyramids and killing all the animals that used to eat avocado

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Everyone know mexicans built the pyramids

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It’s true, though often unintended, people get excited. It sucks because the past is filled with such vibrant and cool things people have done. Cheapens it… People are neat.

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… the past is filled with such vibrant and cool things slaves have done… People are gross

Fixed it for ya.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_pyramid_construction_techniques

In addition to the many unresolved arguments about the construction techniques, there have been disagreements as to the kind of workforce used. The Greeks, many years after the event, believed that the pyramids were built by slave labour. Archaeologists now believe that the Great Pyramid of Giza (at least) was built by tens of thousands of skilled workers who camped near the pyramids and worked for a salary or as a form of tax payment (levy) until the construction was completed, pointing to workers’ cemeteries discovered in 1990.[1] For the Middle Kingdom pyramid of Amenemhat II, there is evidence from the annal stone of the king that foreigners from Canaan were employed.[2]

That’s a common myth. :) People didn’t have to enslave each other to do magnificent things, we should take note.

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Why? The people around the Mediterranean are the same people

No one questions Divinci

It’s about time period not race

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The people around the Mediterranean are the same people

Racists would definitely disagree

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It’s racist against the human race. They’re basically saying humans were too stupid and incapable of engineering feats like these so they obviously had help from extraterrestrials to build their giant stone pyramids.

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Nah, there’s a reason why we don’t talk about Stonehenge in the same ways.

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