and then they came for the pyramids

Archeoblog reports:

just when you think “Ha, no one would be that crazy…..

”Archaeologists, activists alarmed by online calls to demolish Pyramids

After bringing down statues, symbolic of racism and oppression in the US and the UK during the Black Lives Matter protests, some social media activists started calling for the demolition of the Pyramids, basing their argument on the contested notion that they were built by slaves.

the article suggests that the hashtag was started as a satire on the statue destroying mania in the USA by "activists" that has now been picked up by SJW who know little about history.

but hey, the Taliban loving types in Egypt have said the same thing:

Egyptian archaeologists like Monica Hanna (notes)...   "Such calls are reminiscent of similar calls made by some extremists in 2012 to destroy Pharaonic monuments or cover them in wax in the conviction that the Pharaonic civilization was corrupt and deserved to be destroyed,"...

 She was referring to ominous threats against the Sphinx and the Pyramids made by radical Sheikh Morgan Al Gohary. In an interview broadcast on the Egyptian privately owned channel Dream TV in November 2012, the Salafist cleric boasted about taking part along with the Taliban in the demolition of the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan in March 2001. He suggested covering the Pharaonic monuments in wax, arguing that Sharia advocates the destruction of every pagan and idol.

and the article includes a discussion pointing out that the pyramid builders were fed and paid to work in the off season, so they weren't slaves per se: a better description is corvee labor 

Corvée labor is one of the most obvious features of the centralism in ancient Near Eastern states; it manifests itself in vast building projects requiring the labor of large forces of manpower over lengthy periods. The type of labor differed from place to place and from period to period. Various terms indicative of this function are also to be found in the context of landownership, occupations, conditions of tenancy, etc. Women as well as men could be drafted for forced labor, and even animals were requisitioned for some purposes. On the other hand, certain individuals, members of certain crafts, and various social strata and settlements might be exempted from the corvée, as a personal or collective privilege.

And before you look down on this primitive practice, remember it is similar to the drafting of young men to join the military, which is no longer done in the USA but still done in parts of the world.

my opinion? I sort of agree that memorials to some of the guys (and yes, they are "guys" not gals) need to be removed from a place of honor in the public square, and maybe moved to private parks or museums, where their history can be put into context. 

But allowing a violent mob to remove them sets a bad precedent: it resembles the "Red Guard" destroying the "four olds" during Mao's cultural revolution.

since when is violence the way to do this? Why not put it to the vote (collect signatures on a petition to add it to be voted on in the ballot box).

however, I suspect this trial of destruction of history by mob rule will have less long term bad effects than the Supreme court deciding that gender is a cultural choice, not a scientific fact. But since I live in the Philippines, where baklas and tomboys are just considered part of the family, I will leave this cultural insanity to the US pundits.