Scottish University Will Rename David Hume Tower After George Floyd

Big League Politics ^ | September 13, 2020 | Richard Moorehead

[ReaganGeneration2]

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?!?!!

[_longranger81]

That’s obscene.

[GreyFriar]

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

[Chickensoup]

This IS the BEE, PLEASE say it is !!

[rbg81]

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

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

[EEGator]

“I can’t breeve...”

[faithhopecharity]

got it! thanks

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

[MinuteGal]

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

[tet68]

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

[WKUHilltopper]

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

[budj]

Good job, Edinburgh.
Because
Crazy
Matters

Yes, this is Scotland today.

[hanamizu]

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

[Tennessee Nana]

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 ...

[MinuteGal]

Everyone, read # 48 above.....

TRUMP IS ONE OF THEIR OWN !

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

Leni

[SES1066]

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?

[jersey117]

What can you say except WTF and LOL

[alabama_heart]

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

[Antioch]

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

[Rusty0604]

Good grief.

[Rappini]

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