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'We take full accountability for the weight of our harmful words'
Columbia’s ‘satire’ student paper apologizes for land acknowledgment joke. Its masthead claims it’s the Ivy’s “only newspaper that doesn’t use performance-enhancing drugs,” and its “About” sectionBut the paper recently pulled a piece titled “I Lived It: Before We Had Sex, My Boyfriend Said a Land Acknowledgement” because apparently there arefrom earlier in the week notes the article “upset many members of the Columbia community and handled a sensitive topic rashly and irresponsibly: the important recognition of the native land Columbia University and much of our country sit on.
” We take full accountability for the weight of our harmful words, and we thank Columbia’s Native American Council, as well as other members of the community, for bringing this to our attention. We deeply apologize for any harm this article caused, and we are taking this moment to refine our humor guidelines to ensure that our mission of satire does not hurt communities and voices that should uplifted.
In a moment like the one we are currently living in on a campus like ours, political satire is more important than ever, and we would like to reaffirm our commitment to uplifting marginalized voices in this endeavor.
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