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 ...
This is an excellent work lesson if implemented the right way. Take all the protestors and put them to work destroying the GIZA pyramids with a quota of stones removed per day. Perhaps they should start on the smaller one until they get in the groove and can raise their quotas.
That should take care of them for about 20 years—or 20 days since I doubt many of them would survive any really hard physical work for long.
Was almost sure this was the Babylon Bee.
They’ll have their work cut out for them. Those blocks of stone ain’t made of downy feathers.
Whether or not the Colosseum was built by Jewish slaves, it was almost certainly built by slave labor. The Empire was built on it.
The Egyptians probably have a different take on that. I’m thinking they’ll enforce their opinion from behind multiple AK-47s.
According to the leftist loser nitwits, everything is racist and everything triggers them. Therefore we must destroy everything in existence . What pathetic oafs.
According to the leftist loser nitwits, everything is racist and everything triggers them. Therefore we must destroy everything in existence . What pathetic oafs.
that's true. It was a classic slave driven economy. That faltered with the rise of Christianity. Incidentally the Muslims kept up that slave economy
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