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Yes, this is Scotland today.
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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I’m no fan of Hume’s philosophy, but he was a Top 5 or Top 10 thinker of influence on the modern era. George Floyd?!?!!
That’s obscene.
Idiocy for renaming a structure from that of a renown philosopher to that of a petty criminal.
This IS the BEE, PLEASE say it is !!
Another contestant enters the virtue-signaling measurement contest, outdoing Braveheart.
“I can’t breeve...”
got it! thanks
(mea culpa, it was like overlooking Plato’s Republic)
Leni
It’s about time something was named after Lloyd George.
Why not just call it “The Stack ‘O’ Sh!t Tower”?
Yes, this is Scotland today.
Students feeling uncomfortable about the thoughts of an 18th-century philosopher? Really? But they’re OK with a criminal drug addict and his thoughts?
and the students and the alumni say what ???
Personally Id stop supporting them...or would demand my tuition funds back and go elsewhere...
what a travesty...that guy didnt graduate from there or even attend there...If fact he had no interest in education a all...
nor did he contribute to the common good in any way, but he was lawless and hurt people ...
TRUMP IS ONE OF THEIR OWN !
TDS has laid its dark blanket over his own ancestral country!
Leni
So much for the Scottish Enlightenment of which David Hume was a leading philosopher. Once, this period was referred to as the movement to replace authoritarian dictates (Government, Religious and Tradition) with human reason based upon experiential and empirical logic and experimentation. After John Hume gets dropped, which ones are the next targets to fall to these philistines; Joseph Black, Robert Burns, Adam Ferguson, Francis Hutcheson, James Hutton, John Playfair, Thomas Reid, Adam Smith and Dugald Stewart?
In a generation will George Floyd be a martyr or a symbol of a momentary madness?
What can you say except WTF and LOL
I read the title and thought surely this was the Bee. You can’t make this crap up.
A violent felon, a counterfeiter, a drug addict AND a disgusting porn actor. Can’t forget about that entry on his resume
Good grief.
What a bunch of morons. What are they afraid of.
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