College Strong-Arms Students into ‘Agreeing’ They’re Culpable Colonizers – Opinion

How would you react if you were forced to confess by your school?

To participate in a recent Zoom call, students at Toronto’s George Brown College were reportedly given a choice: Sign an admission of white-privilege land theft, or lose the opportunity to take part.

This seems odd considering that attendees paid tuition access.

Jonathan Kay, Senior Editor at Quillette tweetedImage of the IT Pre-Call Requirement Above a clickable “I Agree,” students and faculty were saddled with this:

Since time immemorial, it has been the location of human activity. It is home to the Huron Wendat, Mississaugas and Anishinaabe, as well as the Haudenosaunee.

Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant covers the territory. It is an agreement between the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Confederacy of the Anishinabek (Allied Nations) to peacefully care for the Great Lakes resources and share them.

Are you okay? We haven’t yet detailed your diabolism:

We also acknowledge all Treaty peoples — including those who came here as settlers — as migrants either in this generation or in generations past — and those of us who came here involuntarily, particularly forcibly displanted Africans, brought here as a result of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and Slavery.

Next stop: Murderville…

We, the settlers and the displanted benefit from colonization of Indigenous peoples on this land. It is essential that we engage in decolonization and awareness in order to resist and support the injustices done to the Indigenous peoples.

The call’s ready when you are:

**By selecting “I agree,” you are indicating your acknowledgment of this statement.

Not to worry — according to a disclaimer, you’re agreement is not at all agreeance:

Not to require agreement, but to acknowledge. The purpose of acknowledgment is not to impose agreeance but rather to inform through acknowledgement.**

Some people might argue that some points should be ignored.

• The school lists multiple tribes which presumably serially occupied the land; yet, only the Caucasian “colonialists” must admit to dwelling upon it undeservedly.
• The land belongs to the school, and not the students or faculty.
• George Brown appears to be assigning responsibility for a crime that was committed before the accusers’ birth.
• The saying “A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still” surely applies.
• The school is forcing students to admit they’ve stolen property, by employing as leverage the threat of denying their use of it. If the land agreement is correct, then everyone’s participation in the call is the effective endorsement of the sin they’re simultaneously denouncing. Evidently, the college is attempting to illustrate its morality by admitting to unspeakable acts; concurrently, it’s proving its immorality by further indulging in those devilish deeds. And it’s requiring that all involved be similarly sociopathic.

Concerning stupefying signals of virtue, George Brown’s not nearly alone:

College Professor on Stolen Land Accuses Columbus of Symbolizing ‘White America’

Minnesota Proposes New Social Studies Standards That Call out ‘Whiteness, Christianity, and Capitalism’

‘You Are Racist’: Images Pop Up Online Revealing San Diego’s White Privilege Wringing of Teachers

Seattle Tells Its White Teachers to ‘Bankrupt’ Their Privilege and Acknowledge Their ‘Thieved Inheritance’

Cornell University Announces It’s on Stolen Land During Commencement, Doesn’t Commence to Giving It Back

It seems to me that no apology can be taken seriously if the issuer isn’t willing to make amends. So long as it’s open, many will likely count George Brown College among those whose sorries are…sorry.

George Brown College’s stolen land should be seized along with any associated endowments, as this is something that they believe in and compel others to believe. https://t.co/hbFqrVu5h3

— James Lindsay, weaponizing your mom (@ConceptualJames) May 28, 2022

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