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Scottish University Will Rename David Hume Tower After George Floyd
Big League Politics ^ | September 13, 2020 | Richard Moorehead

Posted on 09/13/2020 9:23:10 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat

The University of Edinburgh in Scotland announced that it would rename a university building after George Floyd on Thursday. The Hume Tower was previously named after Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume, who is thought of as a notable classical liberal political philosopher. The Hume Tower will now be known as 40 George Floyd. The prestigious university, located in Scotland’s capital city, explained in a statement that the renaming was taking place because “of the sensitivities around asking students to use a building named after the 18th century philosopher whose comments on matters of race, though not uncommon at the time, rightly cause distress today.”

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Education; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: blacksupremacy; floyd; hume; scotland
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To: CheshireTheCat

How silly those Scots -

Kilts

Haggis

Caber-tossing

Now Floydd honoring!

Ha-ha-ha-ha! Oh, those Scots are so funny!


21 posted on 09/13/2020 9:46:26 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (I'll be good, I will, I will!)
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To: CheshireTheCat

OMG!

Satire?!?!?


22 posted on 09/13/2020 9:49:31 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Et tu, Scotland? William Wallace is spinning like a turbine.


23 posted on 09/13/2020 9:49:56 AM PDT by Spok (All free men are equal only in their freedom; everything else is up to them.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

I doubt Saint George could have spelled the word “Scotland”.


24 posted on 09/13/2020 9:50:20 AM PDT by dainbramaged (Windage and Elevation)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Another “what’s in it for me?” Money talks.
Of all the so called ‘hands up’ thugs, Floyd was the worst.
Why not glorify that Ferguson kid? He was only on Kit Kats.


25 posted on 09/13/2020 9:50:27 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.?)
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To: CheshireTheCat

St. Floyd is apparently a vastly superior scholar than these b0z0s.


26 posted on 09/13/2020 9:50:54 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: sphinx

>>What did David Hume say about race?

“I am apt to suspect the negroes to be naturally inferior to the whites.” — Hume, in a footnote remark.


27 posted on 09/13/2020 9:56:47 AM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Maybe they’ll dig up his gold coffin and take it on a tour of Scotland.


28 posted on 09/13/2020 9:58:07 AM PDT by Veggie Todd (Religion. It's like a History class. Without the facts.)
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To: CheshireTheCat
"The Hume Tower was previously named after Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume, who is thought of as a notable classical liberal political philosopher. "

I cannot think of a stronger way to show their contempt for David Hume.
29 posted on 09/13/2020 9:58:08 AM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: sphinx

David Hume could out-consume
Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel


30 posted on 09/13/2020 10:00:06 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Must have poor ventilation....


31 posted on 09/13/2020 10:00:31 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: CheshireTheCat
Actually, it sounds like he fits in perfectly with the antifa / BLM kooks...
Hume held that passions rather than reason govern human behaviour, famously proclaiming that "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions".

Hume was also a sentimentalist who held that ethics are based on emotion or sentiment rather than abstract moral principle. He maintained an early commitment to naturalistic explanations of moral phenomena, and is usually taken to have first clearly expounded the is–ought problem, or the idea that a statement of fact alone can never give rise to a normative conclusion of what ought to be done.


32 posted on 09/13/2020 10:02:57 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ("And oft conducted by historic truth, We tread the long extent of backward time.")
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To: CheshireTheCat
The real question about whether this disgusting move will work is if these "educated" Scots know how to spell "fentanyl" ... for the name change, y'know.
33 posted on 09/13/2020 10:04:16 AM PDT by glennaro (Democrat/Left Party core principle: You can control anyone if you frighten them enough.)
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To: Veggie Todd
Maybe they’ll dig up his gold coffin and take it on a tour of Scotland.

Let ‘em keep it there, and christen it with the finest single-malt.

34 posted on 09/13/2020 10:06:11 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Batman11

Maybe they can give her a scholarship.


35 posted on 09/13/2020 10:10:11 AM PDT by CaptainK ('No collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker')
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To: CheshireTheCat

A Scottish school, in Scotland, is going to name one of its buildings... after an American black man high on fentanyl who did not die from suffocation and who’s officers have not even been tried yet and who’s death sparked a communist uprising?

They’re drunk.


36 posted on 09/13/2020 10:11:01 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: CheshireTheCat

This report must be a parody. What great philosophical or historical work did Floyd produce for us?


37 posted on 09/13/2020 10:11:01 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they are excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: vikingd00d

And?


38 posted on 09/13/2020 10:12:55 AM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you run the tra)
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To: CheshireTheCat

The guy who invented Kwanzaa had an extensive criminal record which save for a few newspaper accounts has disappeared. We need to make sure the records of these newly minted saints do not suffer the same fate. Then perhaps in the future clear thinking individuals will reverse this crap.


39 posted on 09/13/2020 10:13:23 AM PDT by beef (Use a VPN, use Tor, and get a shortwave radio. Oh, and ACAB- All Commies Are Bastards)
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To: windsorknot

Perhaps the United Kingdom should reconsider Scottish independence.


40 posted on 09/13/2020 10:13:44 AM PDT by windsorknot
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