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UW administrator goes to war over Seattle professor’s hilarious land acknowledgment joke

Left-wing administrator Magdalena Balazinska (she/her/hers) censored the syllabus of a professor at the University of Washington. She claims it’s so offensive that she had to censor it. But that’s not all.

Award-winning computer science professor Stuart Reges rejects the UW’s far-left political agenda. And he used his land acknowledgment to mock the meaningless virtue signal.

“I acknowledge that by the labor theory of property the Coast Salish people can claim historical ownership of almost none of the land currently occupied by the University of Washington,” Reges wrote.

Balazinska emailed students to apologize for the “offensive” land acknowledgment and said it was removed from the syllabus.

She claimed the professor’s land acknowledgment note was “offensive” because it did not properly pretend to be offended by teaching on land the administration pretends was stolen from Native Americans. She even went so far as to offer a course to compete with the course offered by Reges.