Yes, really. Being offended, or at least pretending to be offended, aggrieved, butt hurt, triggered is some people’s idea of fun I guess. Remember when the left decried the right for being closed minded?
So, who got canceled this time……………David Hume. Who? You ask, well, The Other McCain has your answer
“Don’t worry,” they told us, “it’s just a few Confederate statues.”
Next thing you know, the woke mob has come for . . . David Hume?
The University of Edinburgh has seen its donations slump by almost £2 million after it “cancelled” the philosopher David Hume over his slavery links.
The institution said that 24 donations and 12 legacies had been “cancelled, amended or withdrawn” in response to the September 2020 renaming of a prominent campus building dedicated to its former student, one of the leading figures of the Scottish enlightenment.
While he argued against the institution of slavery, Hume was condemned by student activists largely for a footnote in a 1758 essay in which he said he was “apt to suspect the negroes to be naturally inferior to the whites”.
The David Hume Tower was rechristened 40 George Square with the university claiming that while Hume’s opinions were “not uncommon” when he wrote them more than 250 years ago, they “rightly cause distress today”.
(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.) Years ago, when the SPLC (and the once-influential Little Green Footballs) tried to “cancel” me, I took solace in knowing that my many friends would reject this smear and, more than a decade down the line, everyone now sees how this Thought Police tendency has run completely amok — as some of us predicted it would.
Seems that Hume was anti-slavery, in the 18t century, pretty progressive of him frankly. And, when I say progressive, I mean someone who was ahead of their time, someone wanting truly positive change. But, Hume thought, like so many in his day that Blacks were inherently inferior. On that he was, of course wrong, but in wanting to end the barbarism of slavery, he was right, and ahead of his time.
The Other McCain has lots more to say, and you should go read them all. These activists are bigots, they love to destroy, to tear down, and to control what others say, read, and believe. In fact, there are no more brazen bigots than these “activists” and they must be confronted rather than appeased. They truly are the worst types of cowards.
When challenged they run from discussion or debate. They much prefer to intimidate anyone standing up to them. They will call you racist, or homophobe, or any other assorted slurs. They will try to ruin your name, and reputation. If they can destroy your career? All the better for them. Your choice is really allowing them to destroy you, or standing up and pushing back. Please, choose wisely
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