Aliens built the pyramids

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Elsewhere, I was watching posts by a group c-lled “Fraudulent Archaeology”, and one of the points made there was that “aliens did <thing>” is the pinnacle of racism (ethnocentricity). Those people could not possibly done that, because they are so inferior to us.

Substantial recent thread on this and/or related tropes:

Ancient astronaut believers: Are they racist?

I had a conversation today where the other party was feeling a little guilty about going off on a rampage at a casual question. The person asked what he thought about ancient astronauts and he told her that people who forward those hypotheses or believe in them really pisses him off because they are saying, in effect, brown people couldn’t have built/done those things back then so it must have been extraterrestrials doing it for them. He apologized to the questioner but, being Mexican, she sai…