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fandomhigh2017-07-14 01:21 pm
stickitupmyjinx) wrote in fandomhigh2017-07-14 01:21 pm
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Alien Conspiracy Theories, Friday, Second Period
Settle in, kiddies, it was time for a Powerpoint presentation!
"The pyramids of Egypt!" Vanessa announced as said pyramids appeared on the screen. Next slide. "The pyramids of South America!" Next slide. "The Great Wall of China!" Next slide. "The Moai of Easter Island!" Next slide. "Stonehenge! What do these things all have in common? If you said 'they were built by brown people,' you're almost correct. Stonehenge is an outlier there. Although it was built by, I think, Celts, who later English people like to look down on, so there's that. If you said 'we have no idea why they were built,' you're wrong, but that's a common misconception: obviously the Egyptian pyramids were built as grain silos!" A beat, in which Vanessa remembered the composition of the student body. "That's a joke, by the way. They were tombs. And if you said 'a lot of people don't understand how ancient brown people, with their quote-unquote primitive technologies, could have built these structures, therefore aliens must have done it, ding ding ding, you get a prize!" Another pause. "Actually the Great Wall might have just been that movie with Matt Damon. I don't know. I didn't see it. Anyway. The idea is that the aliens wanted to awe the local people and be worshiped as gods, or the pyramids are secretly spaceships or whatever. And definitely a big heaping dollop of 'oh ancient brown people couldn't possibly have moved a giant rock.' So: racism. The pyramids were built by people. Sorry to disappoint. Now, what's a structure you think must have been built by aliens, and why? Personally I'm going with Trump Tower, because look at him."
"The pyramids of Egypt!" Vanessa announced as said pyramids appeared on the screen. Next slide. "The pyramids of South America!" Next slide. "The Great Wall of China!" Next slide. "The Moai of Easter Island!" Next slide. "Stonehenge! What do these things all have in common? If you said 'they were built by brown people,' you're almost correct. Stonehenge is an outlier there. Although it was built by, I think, Celts, who later English people like to look down on, so there's that. If you said 'we have no idea why they were built,' you're wrong, but that's a common misconception: obviously the Egyptian pyramids were built as grain silos!" A beat, in which Vanessa remembered the composition of the student body. "That's a joke, by the way. They were tombs. And if you said 'a lot of people don't understand how ancient brown people, with their quote-unquote primitive technologies, could have built these structures, therefore aliens must have done it, ding ding ding, you get a prize!" Another pause. "Actually the Great Wall might have just been that movie with Matt Damon. I don't know. I didn't see it. Anyway. The idea is that the aliens wanted to awe the local people and be worshiped as gods, or the pyramids are secretly spaceships or whatever. And definitely a big heaping dollop of 'oh ancient brown people couldn't possibly have moved a giant rock.' So: racism. The pyramids were built by people. Sorry to disappoint. Now, what's a structure you think must have been built by aliens, and why? Personally I'm going with Trump Tower, because look at him."
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She hadn't been around for it personally, but yeah. Gems.
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but I knows better of the course he was quick to text. delegitimizing local skills and efforts is basic colonialism practice
Tip was beginning to wonder if her whole "share the class lectures with J.Lo and laugh" plan might not work out quite the way she'd thought.
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