Stamets to [email protected] • 6 months agoSometimes the simplest answer is the correct one. Sometimes you're just stupid.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square137arrow-up11.26Karrow-down111
arrow-up11.25Karrow-down1imageSometimes the simplest answer is the correct one. Sometimes you're just stupid.lemmy.worldStamets to [email protected] • 6 months agomessage-square137
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•6 months agoYou really think folks speculating about the origin of stonehenge decades ago were thinking “this couldn’t have been built by people of dark complection!”. That is a very extreme reach.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink-1•6 months agoI have no idea, but one person said that alien architect theories were racist: Basically, non-white people built something too advanced and white people don’t like that. Then you said they say the same thing about Stonehenge prompting capital to say: And just like that, that long ass comment about how it’s actually racism is deflated. Jesus fucking Christ sometimes it’s not racism. I just don’t see how bringing Stonehenge into it is a gotcha that proves it’s not racism, since it was also built by brown people.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•6 months agoAnd yet, no one knew that when these theories were being thought up
You really think folks speculating about the origin of stonehenge decades ago were thinking “this couldn’t have been built by people of dark complection!”. That is a very extreme reach.
I have no idea, but one person said that alien architect theories were racist:
Then you said they say the same thing about Stonehenge prompting capital to say:
I just don’t see how bringing Stonehenge into it is a gotcha that proves it’s not racism, since it was also built by brown people.
And yet, no one knew that when these theories were being thought up