–All things being equal, the simpler explanation tends to be the true–

There exist a big culture and history of land theft in the Americas by the white upper class from the 16th century until present time. Now there exist no evidence of extra-terrestrials.

So I personally belief the post's explanation over yours.

There is just as much evidence of extra-terrestrials as there is that this was to protect the reputation of 'someone' from something someone who is long dead and buried once did.

No one cares if your great-great-great-great grandfather was a slave owner. If they did, it would come up far more often.

I can also counter your adage with another:

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

The simplest answer is actually stupidity. Someone(s) didn't know what they had and just freed up space that was taken up by records that were long past their retention period.

> There exist a big culture and history of land theft in the Americas by the white upper class from the 16th century until present time.

This sounds like something from a partisan left-wing political tract. Do you have any references?

Of course, land was taken from the Native Americans and brought under the white man's legal system, at which point I no longer believe the claim. The US is basically a country of laws, not of men, or at least has been for most of its history.

I don't know what the threshhold is for "a big culture of" something, but I suspect the truth of it is that it clearly falls short of that.

This kind of claim is also reminiscent of the situation in Israel, which is also left-wing/anti-semitic minefield of misinformation.

You mock us now on HN but when those extra-terrestrial masters show up at your front door later tonight to silence you we'll have the last laugh!

This is all fun and games to you until you are held liable for working for extra-terrestrials on account of destroying precious documents.

Which is exactly what should happen to those people.