Them by Jon Ronson, a book about conspiracy theorists and the like, has a hilarious story of David Icke being delayed at Canadian immigration until he convinced them that when he really did believe in alien lizards, rather than it being a code word for Jews. They would let a nutcase in, but not a racist.
> The core of ancient alien theory is the belief that non-white races are incapable of complex feats of engineering and civilization
In its origins, but do the current crop of believers think that way? If they do is it an unconscious prejudice or a conscious one? I think there is a spectrum of racism here from complete unawareness of the racist origins, to blatant racism.
There are also some white people's achievements, such as Stonehenge, that they attribute to aliens.
> Dig deep enough under a lot of the folklore, especially where it overlaps with neo-Christian/New World Order stuff and eventually you'll get to the Nazis.
New World Order people do seem to overlap heavily with the "white replacement" crowd, so yes.
> The core of ancient alien theory is the belief that non-white races are incapable of complex feats of engineering and civilization
In its origins, but do the current crop of believers think that way? If they do is it an unconscious prejudice or a conscious one? I think there is a spectrum of racism here from complete unawareness of the racist origins, to blatant racism.
There are also some white people's achievements, such as Stonehenge, that they attribute to aliens.
> Dig deep enough under a lot of the folklore, especially where it overlaps with neo-Christian/New World Order stuff and eventually you'll get to the Nazis.
New World Order people do seem to overlap heavily with the "white replacement" crowd, so yes.