We’ve seen how suddenly Twitter has been flagging President Donald Trump’s tweets, even trying to characterize one tweet he made as glorifying violence.

He tweeted about how when looting starts, shooting starts, explaining later that he meant that looting leads to further violence and, at that time, citing the shootings that had occurred in Louisville. As we now see how true that is, the looting has now been followed by the riots, shootings, setting things on fire, and all kinds of violence, including the assassination of a police officer.

So here’s a question for Twitter. A lot of this is being organized on Twitter. They flag Trump making a random comment that isn’t encouraging anything, yet leave up actual encouragement to destruction.

So we present for your consideration — and that of Twitter — this thread from Sarah Parcak, who’s a professor of archaeology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and uses satellite imaging to help find ancient sites. So she’s been on a variety of programs — even earned an interview with the New York Times, during which she spoke about economic inequality.

But, no, she’s totally not talking about trying to take down the the obelisk monument in Birmingham.

PSA For ANYONE who might be interested in how to pull down an obelisk* safely from an Egyptologist who never ever in a million years thought this advice might come in handy

*might be masquerading as a racist monument I dunno

— Sarah Parcak (@indyfromspace) June 1, 2020

My Bona Fides: I’m an Egyptologist. I have worked in Egypt for 20 years and know a lot about ancient Egyptian architecture. Especially how they raised obelisks.

— Sarah Parcak (@indyfromspace) June 1, 2020

The key to pulling one down is letting gravity work 4 you. Chances are good the obelisk extends into the ground a bit, so you want to get CHAINS NOT ROPE (it’s 2020 AD not BC let metal work for you) extended tightly around the top (below pointy bit) and 1/3 down forming circles

— Sarah Parcak (@indyfromspace) June 1, 2020

For every 10 ft of monument, you’ll need 40+ people. So, say, a 20 ft tall monument, probably 60 people. You want strong rope attached to the chain—rope easier to hold onto versus chain. EVERYONE NEEDS TO BE WEARING GLOVES FOR SAFETY (there is a lot of safety first)

— Sarah Parcak (@indyfromspace) June 1, 2020

You probably want 150+ ft of rope x 2…you’ll want to be standing 30 feet away from obelisk so it won’t topple on you (your safety! first!). This gives enough slack for everyone to hold on to rope, alternating left right left right. Here’s the hard part…pulling in unison

— Sarah Parcak (@indyfromspace) June 1, 2020

You have two groups, one on one side, one opposite, for the rope beneath the pointy bit and the rope 1/3 down. You will need to PULL TOGETHER BACK AND FORTH. You want to create a rocking motion back and forth to ease the obelisk from its back.

— Sarah Parcak (@indyfromspace) June 1, 2020

I recommend a rhythmic song. YOU WILL NEED SOMEONE WITH A LOUDSPEAKER DIRECTING. There can be only one person yelling. Everyone will be alternating on rope left right left right not everyone on the same side. No one else near the obelisk! Safety first!

— Sarah Parcak (@indyfromspace) June 1, 2020

Start by a few practice pulls to get into it. Think of it like a paused tug of war, pull, wait 2, 3, 4, 5 PULL wait 2, 3 4,5. PULL AS ONE, PAUSE 5 SECONDS, you’ll notice some loosening, keep up the pattern…you may need more people, get everyone to pull!

— Sarah Parcak (@indyfromspace) June 1, 2020

Just keep pulling till there’s good rocking, there will be more and more and more tilting, you have to wait more for the obelisk to rock back and time it to pull when it’s coming to you. Don’t worry you’re close!

— Sarah Parcak (@indyfromspace) June 1, 2020

Just in case it’s unclear her meaning:

WATCH THAT SUMBITCH TOPPLE GET THE %^&* OUT OF THE WAY IT WILL SMASH RUN AWAY FROM DIRECTION.

Then celebrate. Because #BlackLivesMatter and good riddance to any obelisks pretending to be ancient Egyptian obelisks when they are in fact celebrating racism and white nationalism

— Sarah Parcak (@indyfromspace) June 1, 2020

But don’t mistake what she’s saying and get the wrong thing:

OK because this is twitter I need to clarify: PLEASE DO NOT PULL DOWN ACTUAL ANCIENT EGYPTIAN OBELISKS that was not the point of this thread.

— Sarah Parcak (@indyfromspace) June 1, 2020

Here’s a rough schematic. I note this is experimental archaeology in action! Just my professional Hot Take and you may need more people, longer rope, etc. everything depends on monument size. pic.twitter.com/lzl55CSPNt

— Sarah Parcak (@indyfromspace) June 1, 2020

There might be one just like this in downtown Birmingham! What a coincidence. Can someone please show this thread to the folks there.

— Sarah Parcak (@indyfromspace) June 1, 2020

BUT OF COURSE THIS IS ALL ENTIRELY HYPOTHETICAL

— Sarah Parcak (@indyfromspace) June 1, 2020

Uh huh.

ALSO PLEASE DO NOT PULL DOWN WASHINGTON MONUMENT

— Sarah Parcak (@indyfromspace) June 1, 2020

Funny coincidence that they pulled down a Confederate monument in Birmingham last night and defaced the obelisk monument that was in Linn Park, but didn’t manage to pull that down.

HAPPENING NOW: Protestors have destroyed barrier placed by @cityofbhamal around confederate statue in a Linn Park. @abc3340 pic.twitter.com/wJQR4LruCP

— Stephen Quinn (@StephenQ3340) June 1, 2020

But apparently Twitter doesn’t find all this advice problematic.

We were told that inciting violence would result in a permanent ban from @Twitter…

— Paul Sacca (@Paul_Sacca) June 1, 2020

Many thought she was speaking about the Washington Monument.

Oh cool advice on how to pull down the Washington Monument. 10k likes. Don't tell me these people don't want to destroy the United States. https://t.co/7eNkgQIpDU

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) June 1, 2020

No, you really can’t physically pull down the Washington Monument and she is likely talking about the Birmingham monument, although of course she’s really not encouraging that as she said.

But most were not on board.

No nation can survive a situation where this is normalized. And America will not. pic.twitter.com/Q6GxmU1oE8

— David Reaboi (@davereaboi) June 1, 2020

This is the aftermath, literally 30 minutes later pic.twitter.com/ceQX8QFj9o

— Charles Signorile (@CharlieSigs) June 1, 2020

But apparently this tutorial is just cool with Twitter.