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After the University of Washington encouraged instructors to include land acknowledgments on their syllabi, Stuart Reges wrote a dissenting view. He was then placed under investigation.

A controversial land acknowledgment led to a clash between a University of Washington professor and administrators. Native scholars say the practice has value but can be problematic without a commitment to supporting Indigenous communities.

We reported here early last month about University of Washington Prof. Stuart Reges upending UWs virtue-signaling land acknowledgement that is all the rage in academia right now. Today Inside Higher Ed picks up the story, with an interesting wrinkle. As argued here, if land acknowledgements are meant literally, they are the height of liberal hypocrisy, since stolen land by definition should either be returned to its rightful owner, or compensation

In recent months and years, liberal students have turned to activism to pressure administrators to adopt a slew of left-wing policies.

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The latest fad in college campus virtue-signaling is an indigenous land acknowledgment, in which a speaker or writer will preface a statement (though typically after declaring their pronouns—got to have the priorities in the correct hierarchy) with We acknowledge that this university sits on the un-ceded land of the . It has gone beyond pro-forma public announcements in many places, with faculty encouraged to include an indigenous land acknowledgement statement

Theft, schmeft.

A University of Washington professor has been told that only prewritten "Indigenous land acknowledgement" statements may be used in the classroom

"by the labor theory of property..."

A left-wing University of Washington administrator censored the syllabus of a professor over a joke land acknowledgment she claims is offensive.