Posted on 06/23/2020 8:33:42 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
British anti-racism protestors called for the destruction of Egypt's Giza Pyramids on Sunday, after tearing down a statue of a slave trader in the city of Bristol and throwing it in the Avon river, CNN reported Monday.
The pyramids have been among the most frequently discussed topics in the UK over the past several hours, inspired by controversy over who built them.
Protesters tore down the statue of British slave trader Edward Colston on the second day of protests condemning racism in the UK, part of a response to the killing of George Floyd, an African American man, by a white policeman in the city of Minneapolis, USA.
Colston was responsible for the enslavement and transfer of more than 80,000 people from Africa to the New World in the 17th Century, while working with the Royal African Company, according to CNN.
Some then called for the destruction of the Egyptian pyramids in Giza, claiming that they were also built by slaves...
As the debate in Britain over the demolition of the pyramids raged, foreign archaeologists published a slide depicting records written by the pyramids' builders, which confirmed that the pyramids were not built by slaves.
UK Home Secretary Priti Patel told SkyNews that toppling the statue of Colston in Bristol was "utterly disgraceful" and "a distraction from the cause in which people are protesting about."
Meanwhile, earlier on Sunday, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that anti-racism protests in his country were "subverted by thuggery."
(Excerpt) Read more at egyptindependent.com ...
only from 400 to 800 in Western Europe north of the pyrenees - Naples-Dalmatia-Danube line do we see a paucity of written texts (hence "Dark") but that ends with the Carolingian renaissance
Yes, destroy modern Egypt’s economy forever. Other than tourism, they have virtually nothing.
Smart move.
“THEN” is the new “NOW”
Could it be that those "some" were just being sarcastic? "Yeah, might as well destroy the pyramids while you're at it."
Arch of Titus.
When comedy was actually funny & people still had a sense of humor.
The Coliseum in Rome was a site of genocide and persecution with victims fed to lions before a live audience. It was also the staging for Fascist rallies.
How many people does it take to tear down a pyramid with their bare hands and some rope?
Why not? They are haram
ha·ram
adjective
forbidden or proscribed by Islamic law.
Idiocracy - Charlie Chaplin and the UN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DueSvcjn810
>>In the end destroy any artifact of human civilization and existence. Insane nihilism.
Destroy anything not approved by Mohammed, Chairman Mao, or Karl Marx. Those are the forces at work here.
There were calls to ban Steve Martin last year because of that clip.
How do you think Doo Doo John Lennon Lindh Walker wound up fighting a war on the side of the Islamists when he was captured on the battlefield by our troops?
This is satire......right?.................
Of course those who worked on it were fed and housed for the 20 years of construction. But it was a hierarchical society, effectively, yes of course they were slaves. There's a modern political imperative that has nothing to do with anything but nationalist politics in Egypt and an ass-kissing need for those who want to work in Egypt. No need to buy into the fiction.
Weren’t Egyptian workers on the pyramids just “paying their taxes” by working. As I understand it was “corvee labor” work as a way of paying taxes & performing religious obligations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corv%C3%A9e
Also technically didn’t the Pharoah & priests own everything? So everyone was a slave in a sense except those top dogs. Not at all comparable to what is popularly understood as slavery.
Also technically didn’t the Pharoah & priests own everything? So everyone was a slave in a sense except those top dogs. Not at all comparable to what is popularly understood as slavery.
Really? Owning millions of human beings isn't slavery? Do tell..
That "just paying their taxes" trope is another common way of buying into the official BS.
Don’t go and get all “woke” !
Its how they organized their society. Very Eastern!
I think in China, the Mongols even the Ottomans you and your property existed only as long as the King, Emperor, Khan, Sultan said it did. For example at the Battle of Lepanto the Turkish Navy officers took all their wealth (or as much as they could carry!) with them on their person. There are remarks by League participants regarding this when recovering Turk bodies and prisoners. Why did they do this? Because person & property were not safe\guaranteed under the Ottomans. Again because they and theirs belong to the state. A slave society yes like Egypt but not even the same as Greece & Rome and certainly not the antebellum South. That’s my point!
And no I am not defending it!
Ancient Egypt had slavery. That's the point.
Never said they didn’t!
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