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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