This is making the rounds and a few people asked if I'd heard of this Oregon Association of Scholars. I had not, so I googled them, and well...the cover image they chose is...interesting.
https://twitter.com/Rep_PeriPourier/status/1500610205364760587
One of their primary projects involves a critique from the right of BLM and the broader concept of "structural racism." During the time period depicted in this image, the constitution of Oregon expressly prohibited black people from settling in Oregon. 
I'm assuming these folks are also not all that keen on the concept of "settler colonialism" that informs much contemporary scholarship on the settlement of the west. I assume that because this image is pretty much the poster child for the pro-settler colonialist perspective.
I assume when we look at that image we're supposed to identify with the plucky white pioneers soldiering on, largely alone, in a hostile environment, as they engage in the admirable pursuit of a livelihood, or truth?
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