UW professor files lawsuit in fight over mock land acknowledgment statement

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A lawsuit filed against UW alleges the school violated a professor's First Amendment rights after he mocked a 'Land Acknowledgment' statement

opted to include a tongue-in-cheek version toUW administrator goes to war over Seattle professor’s hilarious land acknowledgment joke

Reges instead included a modified statement on his syllabus that encouraged students and staff to “consider the utility and performative nature of land acknowledgments.”

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