College in Canada Requires Students and Faculty to Agree They’ve Benefited From White Privilege
“Our intent is not to impose agreeance, but to inform through acknowledgment.”
Forcing someone to do something like this is a power play. You’re forcing someone to submit.
The College Fix reports:
College requires students, faculty to agree they’ve benefited from white privilege
A Canadian college is under fire after social media users discovered the school required students and faculty joining a Zoom call to agree they have benefited from white privilege and vow to engage in acts of “decolonization.”
George Brown College, a public school with multiple campuses in Toronto, allegedly required participants to read a lengthy statement acknowledging Indigenous land ownership and the evils of slavery before clicking a box marked “I Agree” to join a video conference.
A representative for George Brown College did not respond to multiple requests by The College Fix for comment.
The students and faculty who click the “I Agree” box are acknowledging they “benefit from the colonization and genocide of the Indigenous peoples of this land” and are agreeing it is “imperative we constantly engage in acts of awareness and decolonization.”
The full statement reads:
“It has been the site of human activity since time immemorial. This land is the territory of the Huron-Wendat, Mississaugas, Anishinaabe and the Haudenosaunee.
The territory is the subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and the Confederacy of the Anishinabek and Allied Nations to peaceably care for and share the resources around the Great Lakes.
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, brough here as a result of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and Slavery.
As settlers or the displanted, we benefit from the colonization and genocide of the Indigenous peoples of this land. In order to engage in resistance and solidarity against the past and present injustices inflicted on the Indigenous peoples of this land, it is imperative we constantly engage in acts of awareness and decolonization.
**By selecting ‘I agree,’ you are indicating your acknowledgment of this statement. Our intent is not to impose agreeance, but to inform through acknowledgment. This acknowledgment is to generate awareness and offer opportunities for personal reflection.**”
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Comments
“Agreeance”. Is that an actual English word?
As for the requirement: no.
“Our intent is not to impose agreeance, …”
BS
If you don’t agree to this statement … you can not join the Zoom conference. That’s not “to inform through acknowledgment” … that’s coercion.
I think that was a typo. They meant “to impose ignorance” not “agreeance”.
What we need here is a button that says “I do not agree” that takes you to a different conference where everybody can enjoy making fun of the arrogant left-wing nitwits in the woke conference.
“*By selecting ‘I agree,’ you are indicating your acknowledgment of this statement. Our intent is not to impose agreeance, but to inform through acknowledgment.”
But if you don’t agree, you can’t come in.
We’re not forcing you to do anything. We’re just taking away all your other options until you agree to do it.
When I first read the headline, I thought the idea was that they were requiring BIPOCs to agree that they have benefited from white privilege, which it would be about damn time somebody did. That would have made for a much more interesting article.