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.
That’s older than what Wikipedia says Stonehenge is.
Archaeologists believe that Stonehenge was constructed in several phases from around 3100 BC to 1600 BC, with the circle of large sarsen stones placed between 2600 BC and 2400 BC.
But in reality, fucking no one thinks about race when they speculate aliens might be involved in stuff like this.
They generally think “there’s no way people were this advanced way back then”.
People should stop shoehorning race into everything.
People say the exact same things about Stonehenge.
And just like that, that long ass comment about how it’s actually racism is deflated.
Jesus fucking Christ sometimes it’s not racism.
Stonehenge was built by Mesolithic hunter gatherers though? They were dark complected.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/made-at-ucl/stories/face-cheddar-man-revealed
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
That’s older than what Wikipedia says Stonehenge is.
But in reality, fucking no one thinks about race when they speculate aliens might be involved in stuff like this.
They generally think “there’s no way people were this advanced way back then”.
People should stop shoehorning race into everything.