• AllNewTypeFace
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    13 days ago

    Or, seen as ancestors by enough white people who are happy to believe that they were thus white enough to have done impressive things. It’s only other civilisations whose monuments need supernatural explanation.

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      It’s particularly funny as the Romans quite explicitly admired the skill involved in making the Pyramids, and regarded the people of modern day Africa as unusually clever (the Romans blamed the heat).