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[trueblue84]

The pyramids, built by slave masters for slave masters but we marvel and sell tickets.

The Colosseum. Built by 60,000+ Jewish slaves. How many slaves were murdered? Society sells tickets and marvels at the wonder of it all.

Where do you draw the line?

The statues are the equivalent of modern politicians, business people celebs buying knighthoods and peerages. We all find that in bad taste.

The coloseum and pyramids are structural wonders.

 

[Lanolin]

Do the pyramids offend Jewish people?
Are Jewish people still experiencing the effects of being enslaved and used for free labour?
that’s a question for Jewish people but to my knowledge I’m not aware of any movement to remove them.
This sounds argumentative. It’s not meant to be. It’s more making the context point.

Umm... really?

 

[Zezti]

You mean because the slave trade is still active in Libya?

Don't know anything about Libya. I watched that video I linked earlier today and the host said African Americans still feel the wake of slavery.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

Pretty sure its been long established that the pyramids were built by peasants/workers and not slaves

Ah I forgot, they "sold" themselves into slavery.

Ok then, the Colosseum, the great wall of China, countless stately homes/mansions etc etc/

 

[mill]

You're asking if antisemitism still exists?

Sorry no. I’m asking if the pyramids are a reminder for Jewish people of slavery. Whether the pyramids are offensive to Jewish people. It wasn’t a comment on whether Jewish people are the subject of prejudice
I’m not denying anti-semitism in any way shape of form.

 

[Lanolin]

The statues are the equivalent of modern politicians, business people celebs buying knighthoods and peerages. We all find that in bad taste.

The coloseum and pyramids are structural wonders.

So it's about aesthetics? If it looks good it can stay, if not get it down pronto?

 

[kenada_blue]

And you are correct, but a lot of people are saying it is erasing history and they are incorrect.

And they're the shouty ones. Just like the shouty ones wanting things pulled down.

Not one of them want to actually talk to each other. Too busy living on social media where one has to be right

 

[mill]

Umm... really?

To be clear, I’m not saying anti Semitism doesn’t exist. I’m asking if the pyramids represent antisemitism to Jewish people.

 

[longers]

Ah I forgot, they "sold" themselves into slavery.

Great Pyramid tombs unearth 'proof' workers were not slaves

Egypt's leading archaeologist says 4,000-year-old burial plots with skeletons expose myth that builders were slaves

www.theguardian.com

Who Built the Pyramids? | Harvard Magazine

Not slaves. Archaeologist Mark Lehner, digging deeper, discovers a city of privileged workers.

www.harvardmagazine.com

There are countless more

 

[GrandOldTeam]

Great Pyramid tombs unearth 'proof' workers were not slaves

Egypt's leading archaeologist says 4,000-year-old burial plots with skeletons expose myth that builders were slaves

www.theguardian.com

Who Built the Pyramids? | Harvard Magazine

Not slaves. Archaeologist Mark Lehner, digging deeper, discovers a city of privileged workers.

www.harvardmagazine.com

There are countless more

They were slaves by another definition;

Slavery in ancient Egypt - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[coollino]

 

[trueblue84]

So it's about aesthetics? If it looks good it can stay, if not get it down pronto?

Not aesthetics... vanity. A statue is usually commissioned by someone saying (usually paid for by the person or family of the person) I am/was important.

 

[Lanolin]

Not aesthetics... vanity. A statue is usually commissioned by someone saying (usually paid for by the person or family of the person) I am/was important.

And the pyramids were what? Pleasuredomes for the working class?

 

[mill]

And the pyramids were what? Pleasuredomes for the working class?

Lol

 

[trueblue84]

And the pyramids were what? Pleasuredomes for the working class?

No, but people don't visit them to remember the tyrants behind them. I doubt many people could tell you who ordered the pyramids and coloseuum to be built. The statue is nothing but a vanity project and serves no other purpose.