There is much creepy virtue-signaling in whites abasing themselves as “settlers.” But there is no road forward because, fundamentally, it is a collectivist concept. This approach blames some people not for what they did but for what somebody like them did. It absolves others of all blame based on skin colour and falsifies their ancestors’ history.
Gone are the days of only learning about dead white men, and of course the new emphasis on Indigenous history is long overdue. Despite talk of “one world,” the wave of concern has never stretched to include the teaching of world history.”