{"id":19162,"date":"2022-03-31T00:10:58","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T07:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=19162"},"modified":"2022-03-31T00:10:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T07:10:58","slug":"a-is-b-david-hume-is-george-floyd-terrorists-are-social-activists-men-are-women-and-women-are-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2022\/03\/31\/a-is-b-david-hume-is-george-floyd-terrorists-are-social-activists-men-are-women-and-women-are-men\/","title":{"rendered":"A is B: David Hume is George Floyd; Terrorists are Social Activists; Men are Women and Women are Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: Up is down and war is peace.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood philosopy:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sI0vtqxoG1k\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Carrying on\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19163\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Mister_A.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Mister_A.jpg 584w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Mister_A-219x300.jpg 219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The University of Edinburgh <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/news\/students\/2020\/equality-diversity-and-inclusion-an-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">declared<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe work of the University\u2019s Equality &amp; Diversity Committee and its Race Equality and Anti-Racist Sub-committee has continued over the summer. It has been further energised following the killing in May of George Floyd and the ongoing campaigning by the Black Lives Matter movement. Our Race Equality and Anti-Racist Action Plan is accelerating and amplifying our efforts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It is important that campuses, curricula and communities reflect both the University\u2019s contemporary and historical diversity and engage with its institutional legacy across the world. For this reason the University has taken the decision to re-name \u2013 initially temporarily until a full review is completed \u2013 one of the buildings in the Central Area campus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;From the start of the new academic year the David Hume Tower will be known as 40 George Square.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Might this new \u201cGeorge\u201d have relevance to that \u201cGeorge\u201d?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Some <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200915015733\/https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/university-of-edinburgh-renames-david-hume-tower-after-george-floyd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">believe so<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s a suretale sign that the alleged \u201coppressors\u201d are in a position of <em>actual<\/em> systemic privilege when a literal terrorist is considered a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/campusreform.org\/article?id=16686\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social activist<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe Indiana University Department of Information and Library Science recommended that students read the autobiography of known terrorist Assata Shakur, referring to her instead as a &#8220;social activist.&#8221; In a post on its official Instagram account, the department stated that the biography is part of the \u2018Winter Reading List.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018This book is an autobiography of Assata Shakur, social activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army, as well as the godmother of Tupac Shakur,\u2019 the post stated. The post features a picture of the autobiography&#8217;s cover, which promotes a foreword by self-described communist Angela Davis, who also appeared on the FBI&#8217;s Most Wanted List.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;If you are a man you can be a woman just as women can be men, and if you disagree, tough luck you\u2019ll just have to share a dorm room with \u2018em!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe University of North Dakota is weighing a sweeping policy change that would impose \u2018gender inclusion\u2019 mandates on nearly every facet of university life, including housing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe pending policy document \u2014 originated in June and last revised in September \u2014 notes that the university prohibits discrimination \u2018on the basis of sex, including gender identity and gender expression.\u2019 Therefore, the policy serves as a supplement to the university\u2019s Discrimination and Harassment Policy, as well as its Title IX and Sexual Violence Policy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cUniversity of North Dakota communications director David Dodds told Campus Reform that the policy has completed its comment period and has been forwarded to the school\u2019s Executive Council for further discussion.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;TTFN.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"A is B: David Hume is George Floyd; Terrorists are Social Activists; Men are Women and Women are Men\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The focus this time: Up is down and war is peace.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Mister_A.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: Up is down and war is peace. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2022\/03\/31\/a-is-b-david-hume-is-george-floyd-terrorists-are-social-activists-men-are-women-and-women-are-men\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17],"tags":[55,25,24,69,68],"class_list":["post-19162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-progressives","tag-gender","tag-higher-ed","tag-leviathan","tag-quick-takes","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19164,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19162\/revisions\/19164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}