by Bob Walsh
The
University of Edinburgh has been an eminent university for longer than
our country has been around. It was founded in 1582 and was a center
point for what was called the Scottish Enlightenment. The city of
Edinburgh was called The Athens Of The North. David Hume was the father
of that Scottish Enlightenment.
The
University just "cancelled" David Hume, because some of what he opined
in his famous essay, National Character, in 1758, "causes distress"
among the woke assholes over there. He wrote, "I am apt to suspect the
negroes to be naturally inferior to the whites. There scarcely ever was
a civilized nation of that complexion, nor even any individual eminent
either in action of speculation."
The
University has taken his name off of David Hume Tower, one of the
university's major buildings, and renamed it 40 George Square, after
King George III. It should be noted that George III was an opponent of
the abolitionist movement. David Hume was not.
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