It's become a sort of secular "Lord's prayer". But it's become so ubiquitous, and so all-encompassing, in the last year or so, that you almost cannot access a website, or do work, or attend a meeting, or travel, without it being shoved in your face...
And now they're using it as a sort of mandatory "loyalty test", wherein if you don't do the grovel, or complain about it in any way, or aren't sufficiently obsequious, you can lose your job, or, as in the articles here, can be barred from graduating, or accessing your courses...
It's happened scarily quickly.
A "pledge of allegiance to the party", if you will, but it's rapidly moved from an occasional thing, at major events and at woke organisations, to everywhere, all the time, and compulsory...
It means you have to brownnose the Indigenous Australians and pretend you owe the prehistoric hunter-gatherers anything when you're the only reason their descendants aren't still digging up grubs with a pointy stick.
Land acknowledgements are where powerful, untouchable people declare that white peasants have no right to live on the land on which they were born, in the nations that their ancestors built. Instead, it's a crime, carrying with it all the unspoken implications of that crime. Simply put, they want to delegitimize white people's existence.
What's that mean, you acknowledge you live in Australia?
What the other guy said, essentially.
https://archive.is/DsyCN
Same as land acknowledgements in Canada...
It's become a sort of secular "Lord's prayer". But it's become so ubiquitous, and so all-encompassing, in the last year or so, that you almost cannot access a website, or do work, or attend a meeting, or travel, without it being shoved in your face...
And now they're using it as a sort of mandatory "loyalty test", wherein if you don't do the grovel, or complain about it in any way, or aren't sufficiently obsequious, you can lose your job, or, as in the articles here, can be barred from graduating, or accessing your courses...
It's happened scarily quickly.
A "pledge of allegiance to the party", if you will, but it's rapidly moved from an occasional thing, at major events and at woke organisations, to everywhere, all the time, and compulsory...
This doesn't end well, IMHO.
If you can't run from it, you can spare yourself the humiliation by using chatGPT to write it, I suppose
It means you have to brownnose the Indigenous Australians and pretend you owe the prehistoric hunter-gatherers anything when you're the only reason their descendants aren't still digging up grubs with a pointy stick.
Land acknowledgements are where powerful, untouchable people declare that white peasants have no right to live on the land on which they were born, in the nations that their ancestors built. Instead, it's a crime, carrying with it all the unspoken implications of that crime. Simply put, they want to delegitimize white people's existence.