Land acknowledgements are one of the dumbest thing I've come across in my life, amirite?

It is very performative. There is a time and a place for land acknowledgements though. But that time and place is not at the start of a fkkn zoom meeting

by Anonymous 1 year ago

It's yucky virtue signaling.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

My family is indigenous and my brother has a joke that it feels like they're bragging about living on our land 😂 idc either way but I don't see the point in it.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

That does seem kinda stupid and tacky.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Brother. Canada is a total loss at this point when it comes to rational, free thinking. Mark it 8 dude, next frame.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I'm Canadian, and I'm native to boot (or "indigenous" since some white people told me "native" is offensive now apparently). It's all performative, and it drives me crazy.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I felt the same way last week , why are we spending all this time talking, who cares who the Roman's killed, let's go get these eggs

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Really? This is a thing? Were there any indigenous people attending these meetings, or it was just a bunch of non-indigenous Canadians recapping the land acknowledgment every day? I'm having a hard time believing this is a common thing in Canada. Can any Canadians chime in?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Its very common in Canada, I see it quite often. It depends on what circles your in though. You wont find many land acknowledgments working at a construction site.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Wow, TIL! Seems like overkill if you're doing it multiple times a day. It's good to know history, but I don't really get why you'd just recap the same thing over and over that everyone knows.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

From my experience none of these events had actual indigenous people there, it was treated like "let's just get this over and done with" so just saying "I want t acknowledge that this Land belonged to the tribe of xxxxxxxxx and we are thankful for the opportunity to be here blah blah blah"

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I've lived in a couple of America's most liberal cities throughout my life, and we don't have anything similar to that here. I genuinely had no idea this happened in Canada, how intriguing. As I said in another reply, personally seems like overkill to me, even though it's important to acknowledge history and all that. However, every day and multiple times a day? That just seems performative to me…

by Anonymous 1 year ago

It would be more simple to admit how Canadians exterminated them until the 1990s but I guess they don't want to do that. Im in my 20s and all my Canadian friends said they never heard about the atrocities commited during school. Imagine US schools skipping over slavery and just addressing it at the start of meetings. It's shameless

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I work in a very liberal city in the US and its very common. Also, it is thoroughly unimportant to acknowledge who used to own the land, because the people that used to own it...they stole it from someone else.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Can also confirm it's very common in Canada, even in places deemed "conservative".

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Except they're still here. And we treat them like second class citizens. That's why. I'm sorry acknowledging someone's right to exist is inconvenient for you. How European.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I feel like it's no different than a national anthem, at least the land acknowledgement serves somewhat of a purpose (admittedly it's incredibly performative and disingenuous most of the time, but still).

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I suppose you are right, there is no immediate material change from the acknowledgment, and it may not always be done in good faith (the speaker might have been forced to say it, or they may not really care at all, or they might just want to preserve public image). But I think the idea is to not forget the historic atrocities committed to a now marginalised minority group, to preserve culture, and so that society can be more informed, understanding, and appreciative for what they have. So I don't think it's all bad.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

If the city opened a park or a business set up shop and they had some sort of acknowledgement there then I wouldn't see that is silly. Idk, a statue or a plaque etc on the property. Maybe they have a grand opening event and during that time acknowledge it too. but during a work meeting will 100% of the time be performative.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Woke idiots are woke idiots.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Imagine having such a boring life that you care one way or the other about this

by Anonymous 1 year ago

It's done by white-guilt leftists who want to pretend like they're accomplishing something through "awareness".

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Well, hopefully whomever eventually conquers Canada and exterminates their populace will have the good sense not to mention it ever again right?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Never experienced this one time. Lived in Canada my entire life.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Holy based

by Anonymous 1 year ago