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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

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


61 posted on 09/13/2020 11:18:00 AM PDT by Rappini (Compromise has its place. It's called second.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

If it’s Scottish it’s crap!


62 posted on 09/13/2020 11:18:03 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Criminal Tower


63 posted on 09/13/2020 11:47:21 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: CheshireTheCat

So, what is the value of a degree from U of Edinburgh?


64 posted on 09/13/2020 12:01:32 PM PDT by marron
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To: dfwgator

Edinburgh is in the Lowlands.


65 posted on 09/13/2020 12:35:50 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: budj

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.


66 posted on 09/13/2020 12:42:54 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: SES1066
”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.
67 posted on 09/13/2020 12:48:44 PM PDT by JadeEmperor
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To: CheshireTheCat
After they do that they should rename as the University of Morons as it's a more accurate name.
68 posted on 09/13/2020 12:50:52 PM PDT by Vision (Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped.)
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To: sphinx

Wikipedia is probably updating their article on David Hume as we speak to describe him as a racist.


69 posted on 09/13/2020 1:19:15 PM PDT by cymbeline
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To: cuban leaf

Next they will nominAte Floyd for the nobel peace prize. Frankie will canonize him.


70 posted on 09/13/2020 1:31:21 PM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: dainbramaged

Floyd couldnt find Scotland on a map.


71 posted on 09/13/2020 1:33:09 PM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: CheshireTheCat

As the song says ‘People are crazy’.


72 posted on 09/13/2020 3:21:07 PM PDT by robowombat (Orthodox)
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To: SES1066

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.


73 posted on 09/13/2020 4:02:40 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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