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What is the ideological goal of ancient aliens/ancient technology theories? (hexbear.net)

submitted 7 months ago by keepcarrot@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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It does often seem to be correlated to reactionary conspiracy sentiments. There is the "non-white people could not have possibly stacked rocks this big!" thing

I guess also flat earth?

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[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It does feel like it has a grand overarching narrative like traditional antisemitic conspiracy theories, without actually mentioning Jews at all. Hyperborean/Atlantis vibes without the explicit racism (lots of implicit racism though).

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 4 points 7 months ago

There's a lot of overlap.