This Is The Way: Professor Mocked Univ. of Washington Land Acknowledgements

From the Federalist's piece: "9th Circuit Protects Professor’s First Amendment Right To Make Fun Of Land Acknowledgments":

    In 2019, when schools, corporations, politicians, and many others were partaking in their performative (and utterly embarrassing) “racial reckoning” overtures, the University of Washington adopted a policy recommending professors put a “land acknowledgment” on their course syllabi.

    “Land acknowledgments” are meant to falsely state that, in actuality, Europeans did not build any of the United States of America, and that the land is still owned by the American Indian tribes that were once there.

    The school even offered model language: “The University of Washington acknowledges the Coast Salish peoples of this land, the land which touches the shared waters of all tribes and bands within the Suquamish, Tulalip and Muckleshoot nations.”

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    “I acknowledge that by the labor theory of property, the Coast Salish people can claim historical ownership of almost none of the land currently occupied by the University of Washington,” Reges’ 2022 version of the statement in his syllabus read.

    Faculty, staff, and students went into a frenzy of despair over Reges’ statement, with some administrators calling it “offensive” and others whining on social media. 

Besides, those tribes stole those lands from yet earlier, and undoubtedly more deserving, tribes. By their own logic, they are not the rightful owners of the land either.