As a student at ND in 2000, my daughter was baptized in the log chapel. I thought it an honour but did not know about Residential Schools then. I did not know how they were used to indoctrinate Indigenous children, to take their culture away from them at any cost. The honour thus became the insult. As I see ND refuse to distance itself from a legacy of genocide, as I see the similarities between residential school denialism and holacaust deniers. I find it hard to be proud of any association with the University of Notre Dame.
Platinum Rule
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When you see ND administer its legacy network of Mission Schools, the ones that Canada copied in its genocide-committing Residential Schools, and you see how ND welcomes the Chicago Blackhawks with training camps and outdoor games, you learn that the platinum rule is applied all too well.
If you have money or your activities generate income for ND, then you are treated with respect and all sins and blemishes are unseen. Per ND’s Platinum Rule, Money is the ultimate indulgence at ND, with money all sins are forgiven. If you do not have money, then the ND excludes you. You are not equal in the eyes of the elite who chant kill to the tomahawk chop at games inside the stadium on Pottawatomi territory, next to the log chapel where ND began as a Mission School.