Posted on 08/12/2022 5:23:09 AM PDT by TigerClaws
A syllabus template from the University of Texas includes a land acknowledgment and a “content warning” section for potentially offensive content in the course, as the university aims to create an atmosphere of “sensitivity.”
In a typo-filled section of the template, the McCombs School of Business suggests every professor include an apology to Native Americans in their syllabus, acknowledging that they are “meeting on the Indigenous lands of Turtle Island, the ancestral name for what is now North America.” Richard Lowery, a finance professor at UT, highlighted the template on Twitter, saying, “Behold our new syllabus template at the McCombs School of Business. #txlege is this what you want to be paying for?” The template also tells professors to “list your pronouns under your name and the name of your TA(s),” “acknowledge students may share with you the pronouns they use and/or a name that is different than what appears on the official roster,” and include “an inclusivity/diversity statement.” “And pronouns!! Don’t forget your pronouns in your syllabus at McCombs,” said Lowery.
Lowery outwardly speaks out against universities on his Twitter account, saying, “If you like the work I am doing, please support it by NOT GIVING MONEY TO UNIVERSITIES.”
Concerned Texans may contact the University of Texas Board of Regents at (512) 499-4402 or via e-mail at bor@utsystem.edu.
Exactly how many indian tribes thought they lived on an island? And how many called it Turtle Island?
This is fantasy. It's made-up crap.
Your post says it all. And better than anything I might add.
But I will add this:
Because somebody mapped Turtle Island? Coast to coast. Arctic to Antarctic. To find that what we think of as North and South America are really two parts of a connected island?
> meeting on the Indigenous lands of Turtle Island <
I’ll bet that not a single turtle gave permission for their name to be used in that manner. So perhaps the school should apologize to turtles as well.
They do this in Washington State. Even kindergarten teachers read this statement rather than the Pledge of Allegiance every morning.
One University of Washington professor has a lawsuit against this insanity.
We need to place a bounty on every prog in this Country. They are criminally insane.
Contemplating the boundaries of a continent is a fairly sophisticated concept for a stone age culture that had no written language.
We are living in a national insane asylum. Our entire country has gone mad.
No God + too much money and ease + perversion + broken homes and abuse = insanity
Im convinced many on the left are from broken or dysfunctional homes and have experienced some kind of abuse from step parents or boyfriends of a parent. Add to that the insane and evil media and non stop brainwashing from them, we are a society with many insane people now.
I’ll bet that the correlation coefficient between “offended” students and totally ludicrous academic majors is .9999999.
Translation, the offended ones are dumb*sses who really shouldn’t even have a high school degree.
*sigh*
I think that is exactly right.
And it will get worse. Our society of insane people will reproduce and those crazy parents are producing more and more crazy kids. It just gets worse and worse as each generation flows into the next.
It’s sad to contemplate how massive the crisis would have to be to get the crazy people “off stage” so that normal people can once again take center stage.
My honest opinion is that something on the order of nuclear war is the only way we get “fixed” — unless Jesus returns.
“Contemplating the boundaries of a continent is a fairly sophisticated concept for a stone age culture that had no written language.”
Yes, north of the sonoran desert. You might have added - no wheel and no domesticated animals other than the dog. They had no idea where they were in the world and could only travel on foot until the superior European culture arrived.
Want to know what the pre-Columbian, North American Indians were really like? Read the memoire of Alvaro Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, who spent 8 years among the Indians after being ship wrecked and wandered over thousands of miles of North America ($.99 in Kindle edition). The Indians were damned lucky the Europeans came, and much of what people associate with “Indian culture” - e.g. horses and all the things that horses made possible - were actually “cultural appropriation”.
The Indians were damned lucky the Europeans came, and much of what people associate with “Indian culture” - e.g. horses and all the things that horses made possible - were actually “cultural appropriation”.
How do they know the Indians didn’t take the land from someone before them? Furthermore, in what society are the original landowners the current ones? Maybe somewhere in Africa, but doubtful anywhere else.
He would have been walking the prairie, prey to the elements, always on the verge of starvation.
“You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. Next stop … the Twilight Zone!”
The Plains Indians had a relatively brief golden age—the time between getting the horse and getting the white man in amongst them. A few generations at most. An old Indian in the 1870s might remember tales from his grandparents about the times before the horse.
“ Why does the first conquest confer legitimate title and the second doesn’t?”
I share your sentiments. I believe the inter-tribal squabbles are inconsequential to woketards. The offense came when white men took over. Then the noble savage became the marginalized indigenous person of color. IOW, we can’t win!
I don’t know which are worse, woketards or snowflakes.
I’m thinking the former herd the latter.
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