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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What a bunch of morons. What are they afraid of.
If it’s Scottish it’s crap!
Criminal Tower
So, what is the value of a degree from U of Edinburgh?
Edinburgh is in the Lowlands.
The university has a wallet made of human skin.
It was made from William Burke’s skin, the gave robber/ murderer.
Although personally I love Edinburgh.
”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”Which proceeded to give us secularism, the Hegelian dialectic, Marxism, the French and the Russian revolutions, and ultimately, communism and the present state of affairs. I cannot understand the obsession many conservatives have with the Enlightenment. Like it was a good thing.
Wikipedia is probably updating their article on David Hume as we speak to describe him as a racist.
Next they will nominAte Floyd for the nobel peace prize. Frankie will canonize him.
Floyd couldnt find Scotland on a map.
As the song says ‘People are crazy’.
Scotland produced a lot of outstanding thinkers. If they don’t like David Hume there are many other worthy Scots to honor. If they want to honor a black American, there are many to choose from who were not criminals and actually contributed something of value to society.
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