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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

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?!?!!


41 posted on 09/13/2020 10:16:42 AM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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To: CheshireTheCat

That’s obscene.


42 posted on 09/13/2020 10:21:20 AM PDT by _longranger81 (Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves; defend the defenseless; care for the unloved.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Idiocy for renaming a structure from that of a renown philosopher to that of a petty criminal.


43 posted on 09/13/2020 10:22:02 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: CheshireTheCat

This IS the BEE, PLEASE say it is !!


44 posted on 09/13/2020 10:25:19 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: windsorknot

Another contestant enters the virtue-signaling measurement contest, outdoing Braveheart.


Wonder how William Wallace would feel? All that effort and sacrifice so the modern day Scottish could do this.


45 posted on 09/13/2020 10:26:20 AM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: faithhopecharity

“I can’t breeve...”


46 posted on 09/13/2020 10:29:46 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator

got it! thanks

(mea culpa, it was like overlooking Plato’s Republic)


47 posted on 09/13/2020 10:35:07 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they are excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: CheshireTheCat; flaglady47; entropy12; Peter W. Kessler; Trump Girl Kit Cat; mcmuffin; Liz; LS; ...
Trump's mother was Mary Anne MacLeod.....born in Tong, Scotland......immigrated at age 17 to NYC, USA.....met and married Fred Trump (German descent) in 1936.....quote by Trump. "I feel Scottish !".

Leni

48 posted on 09/13/2020 10:37:28 AM PDT by MinuteGal (MAGA !!! MAGA !!! MAGA !!!)
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To: CheshireTheCat

It’s about time something was named after Lloyd George.


49 posted on 09/13/2020 10:40:18 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Why not just call it “The Stack ‘O’ Sh!t Tower”?


50 posted on 09/13/2020 10:41:19 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: CheshireTheCat
Good job, Edinburgh.
Because
Crazy
Matters

Yes, this is Scotland today.

51 posted on 09/13/2020 10:48:14 AM PDT by budj (Combat vet, 2nd of three generations.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Students feeling uncomfortable about the thoughts of an 18th-century philosopher? Really? But they’re OK with a criminal drug addict and his thoughts?


52 posted on 09/13/2020 10:51:54 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: CheshireTheCat

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 ...


53 posted on 09/13/2020 10:54:04 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: All
Everyone, read # 48 above.....

TRUMP IS ONE OF THEIR OWN !

TDS has laid its dark blanket over his own ancestral country!

Leni

54 posted on 09/13/2020 10:56:20 AM PDT by MinuteGal (MAGA !!! MAGA !!! MAGA !!!)
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To: CheshireTheCat

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?


55 posted on 09/13/2020 10:57:06 AM PDT by SES1066 (2020, VOTE your principles, VOTE your history, VOTE FOR ALL AMERICANS, VOTE colorblind!)
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To: CheshireTheCat

What can you say except WTF and LOL


56 posted on 09/13/2020 11:05:07 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: CheshireTheCat

I read the title and thought surely this was the Bee. You can’t make this crap up.


57 posted on 09/13/2020 11:09:38 AM PDT by alabama_heart
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To: Old Yeller

A violent felon, a counterfeiter, a drug addict AND a disgusting porn actor. Can’t forget about that entry on his resume


58 posted on 09/13/2020 11:10:22 AM PDT by Antioch (Benedikt Gott Geschickt)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Good grief.


59 posted on 09/13/2020 11:15:12 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (2020 four more years!)
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To: CheshireTheCat

What a bunch of morons. What are they afraid of.


60 posted on 09/13/2020 11:17:41 AM PDT by Rappini (Compromise has its place. It's called second.)
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