L’Università di Edimburgo ha avuto un ruolo “fuori misura” nella creazione di teorie scientifiche razziste, reperti di indagine
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/27/edinburgh-university-outsized-role-creating-racist-scientific-theories-inquiry
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This won’t go down well with the groups trying to sanitise Scotland’s past.
>Fewer than 1% of its staff and just over 2% of its students were Black, well below the 4% of the UK population, and despite Edinburgh’s status as a global institution.
Scotland is about 1.2% Black according to the 2022 census, with Edinburgh itself being . So 1% of staff (who are more likely to be resident) and 2% of students (more temporary student visas) is not unreasonable. Using national figures for ethnicity, when the distribution is not uniform is a stupid and misleading way to present figures.
Would race baiting authors be happy with 4% of students in London being black based on national statistics, when >10% of the population there is black?
Yet a university that has 68% BAME population is the Guardian’s university of the year 2020. Underrepresenting white people makes you great, underrepresenting BAME makes you racist, Guardian logic at its finest
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/nov/25/aston-university-named-guardians-university-of-the-year?utm_source=chatgpt.com
The Edinburgh Uni hate is really kicking off.
Perhaps rebrand it to J.K.Hogwarts, or something
Not surprising – given Scotland’s outsized role as an imperial power
“Mathieson and university executives set up the review, which was chaired by Prof Tommy J Curry, a specialist in critical race theory, and Dr Nicki Frith, an expert in reparations:
The report’s authors urged the university to redirect the money from those bequests to hiring academics from Black and minority backgrounds and on research and teaching about racism and colonialism, partly to combat the institutional racism that permeated the institution, they argued.
Among a sweeping series of 47 recommendations, the review’s authors have also asked Edinburgh to support the unadoption of the definition of antisemitism published by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) because it stifled “free conversation” about Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza and the West Bank. Most UK universities recognise the IHRA definition”.
The university itself voluntarily sets up an inquiry to investigate it’s own past and discovers it had a larger-than-average impact on scientific racism in the slave trade.
For some reason this angers the commenters here who take the opportunity to complain about minorities in colleges for… some reason.
“_Mathieson said the university also had a lot of work to do to understand why it had so few Black staff and students._”
Same reason there are so few working class staff and students I imagine. Hope they delve a bit deeper than just offering scholarships to BAME folk and thinking the problem is solved.
Sometimes the guardian disguises opinion as fact. This is one of those times
The researchers behind this report are not historians but political activists.
Some people a few hundred years ago were racist? Definitely front-page worthy!
Oh Edinburgh Uni, the one that was just revealed to be “one of the UK’s most financially entangled institutions” to Isreal, Edinburgh Uni that was laughing and making jokes about excluding specifically working class Scottish people, that Edinburgh Uni?
Just a weird, coincidental pattern I’ve noticed whenever past historical transgressions are randomly brought to light.