‘Can’t we find *something* for which we must apologise? We cannot afford to be left behind by other more apologetic institutions’
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I’m not even sure there was really a *major* push to get Edinburgh University to bin David Hume & yet they have done so anyway. There is a performative quality to this; a kind of cry for attention. That it makes them a laughing-stock hardly matters.
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They have form here, having rejected him for a chair even when he was alive
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How wise that was, as it now turns out.
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What is the problem with him?
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‘Distressing’ views on race.
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On the bright side, at least more ppl know who David Hume is now.
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Perhaps an enterprising publisher can give us a Hume epitome.
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