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Canceled by Facebook

November 26, 2023

A month ago, I posted an article to Facebook that was nearly identical to the last one I posted here. By lunch I was canceled. No explanation. No appeal. No nothing. I am now banned from Facebook for life.

It isn’t all bad because I’ll save money. Promoting my books on Facebook didn’t increase sales. I will save the time I spent reading useless things but I will miss reading what friends, acquaintances, and schoolmates are up to these days.

Why exactly did they ban me? I can only guess. At the end of the article, I included a quote from a former Carlisle Indian School student who wrote in positive terms about his experience at the school. It is against wokester ideology to mention the good Carlisle did. That is not allowed. Earlier postings about the Native American Guardians Association’s (NAGA) attempts to have the Washington NFL team revert to calling themselves Redskins surely didn’t endear me to the activists and guilty white liberals who demanded the team to drop that name in the first place.

In respond to a 1912 letter requesting information about his life after leaving the school, George responded in part:

The likely offending passage follows.

“ I feel as that my learning while at Carlisle Indian Industrial School was the foundation of my success in life so far. Does it pay to educate the Indians? Certainly it does. Today there are white people that don’t live far from me that can’t write their own names. Does it pay to educate white children?”