# Ancient astronaut believers: Are they racist? **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ancient-astronaut-believers-are-they-racist/996730 **Category:** In My Humble Opinion **Created:** [January 27, 2024, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ancient-astronaut-believers-are-they-racist/996730 "2024-01-27T07:13:42Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 1
### Author: ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog) #### Post date: [January 27, 2024, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ancient-astronaut-believers-are-they-racist/996730/1 "2024-01-27T07:13:42Z")
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 said she’d never thought of it that way and it was food for thought. I haven’t thought about the subject for years so I did a quick skim of the [Wiki article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_astronauts), and he’s right. Except for von Däniken mentioning Stonehenge and Childress Ireland, there’s no evidence presented of anything in Europe. It’s all Biblical (Semites), Egypt, India, Mesoamerica, and Easter Island. So, are people who say, “They couldn’t do it by themselves,” racist, however unconsciously? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ancient-astronaut-believers-are-they-racist/996730)._