Edinburgh University had ‘outsized’ role in creating racist scientific theories, inquiry finds | University of Edinburgh

Edinburgh University, one of the oldest and most prestigious educational institutions in the UK, played a “big ör role in the creation of racist scientific theories and showed great gains from transatlantic slavery and found a turning investigation into its history.

According to the findings of an official investigation by Guardian, the university increased the equivalence of at least £ 30 million from former students and donors who have connected to exploitation of the African peoples, the planning economy and the collecting of exploitation in the British empire.

The investigation found that Edinburgh has become a “paradise for professors who played an important role in the creation of discredited“ racial pseudo-sciences olan that developed the theories of white superiority in the 18th and 19th and 19th centuries and put the Africans at the bottom of a racial hierarchy.

The ancient university, which was established in the 16th century, is still inherited from 9.4 million £ £ 9.4 million, which finances the colonialization, colonial conquests and the ongoing lessons, medals and friendships from these so -called sciences.

Sir Peter Mathieson, the director of the university, who assigned the investigation, said that his findings were “difficult to read ,, but that Edinburgh could not be a“ selective memory ında about his history and achievements.

In an official statement, Mathieson expanded its university’s deepest apologies in contributing to the production and maintenance of racialized thought that significantly affecting ethnic and racially reduced communities, not only from practices and systems that cause too much pain, but also ethnic and racial reduced communities.

The investigation also found the following:

• The university explicitly sought donations from the graduates of Transatlantic slavery to help build two of the most famous building in the 1790s, the former college on the Southern Bridge in the 1790s and the old medical school near Bristo Square in the 1870s.

• The donations have been equivalent to 202 million pounds on the growth of wages since it has been receiving about 30 million pounds in today’s prices, and since then, it has been equivalent to a high number of £ 845 million, based on economic growth.

• There were at least 15 foundations of the university’s African slavery and at least 15 foundations that were connected to British colonialism in India, Singapore and South Africa, and 10 of them were still active and today had a minimum value.

• Holding university About 300 skulls In the 1800s, he identified the character and morality of a person who believed in the form of skulls by the manslawed and expropriated people in the 1800s.

• Less 1% of the staff And some more than 2% of his students are black, well below 4% of the United Kingdom’s population and despite Edinburgh’s status as a global institution.

The authors of the report, the findings, economist man Smith and philosopher David Hume’nin famous for the work of the work of the 18th and 19th centuries in the 18th and 19th centuries as the seat of the University of Scottish revealed serious questions about the role of the university, he said.

His history is partly not very closely related to humanist and liberal values of the Scottish enlightenment, at least the humanist and liberal values of the Scottish enlightenment, in which the history is partly, depending on slavery and colonialism, bodies, labor, rights, resources, land and knowledge deeply.

The authors of the report urged the university to research and teach the university about racism and colonialism to compete from these wills from these wills to recruit academicians from their black and minority pasts and to fight against institutional racism, which partially penetrating institution.

Among a comprehensive array of 47 suggestions, the authors of the study asked Edinburgh to support the adoption of the adoption of the definition of anti -Semitism published by the International Holocaust Commemoration Alliance (IHRA), because Israel’s “Free Speech” about his policies and actions in Gaza and Western Bank raided. Most UK universities recognize the definition of IHRA.

The investigation also called on Edinburgh to sell their investments to companies with important contracts with the Israeli government.

Mathieson said that Edinburgh reviewed his support to the IHRA Declaration and his investments in Israeli -affiliated companies with a series of protests that accused of Israeli actions in Gaza.

He said that he recognized the power of emotion, but could not commit to support the definition of IHRA or to dispose of a boycott until these investigations were completed. “Frankly, this is a very warm, contemporary issue,” he said in an interview with Guardian.

Mathieson said that the colonialization report has reached “deeply shocking” and “really disturbing” results, including the discovery of one of the most famous moral philosophers of the 1790s, one of the most famous moral philosophers in the 1790s.

Ironically, Stewart and his mentor Ferguson were “lifelong slaveryers”, but race theories were used to justify slavery in the American South.

Mathieson said that the university should accept harsh facts about the past activities and sunbathe in their success. He added that this investigation is the most comprehensive investigation of the species carried out by any university in the UK.

Mathieson said: “I think it is difficult to read most of the report, but I trust the accuracy because I trust the experts who produce it.

Mathieson and university executives found the presidency of Prof Tommy J Curry, an expert in critical race theory, and Dr Nicki Frith, a groundbreaking topic. Review in 2018 By the University of Glasgow, after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020, the slavery and connections to the Black Lives substances that affected Edinburgh.

In addition to other findings, there was proof that the university’s donations derived from the African slavery purchased state war ties, colonial bonds and Scottish Plateau properties, and that he received money from the taxes from the ships carrying sugar and tobacco from these plantations.

The university reacted to the slavery case with “inertia ,, the report did not participate in Edinburgh’s abolition of slavery, despite the fact that Edinburgh was a professor in front of Edinburgh’s slavery campaigns.

Curry said: “Scotland has a moral debt by maintaining an ideology that helps to exploit, kill and dominate racial people for centuries.

“There is no argument against the fact that people who regulate colonialism come from Edinburgh. This is not the only place they came from, but the University of Edinburgh was in the forefront during the creation and reproduction of these theories.”

In 2020, Edinburgh became a center of the Black Lives Matter protests, some personnel and students renamed a tower block bearing the name of Hume, the enlightenment philosopher Hume, who published an open racist footnote supporting the idea that black people were lower.

According to the anger of some historians, the university temporarily Rename the building “40 George Square”. Another study by the university suggested that the name change is permanent and a new naming committee to rename another modern building bearing the name of Dugald Stewart because of race theories.

Mathieson said that the university will accept most of the proposals of the colonization examination presented by the university’s 24 -person academicians, researchers and consultant teams, but it would require external financing.

“If we finally lose courage, because we don’t like the results, doing this kind of work invalidates the original decision,” he said. “We knew it wouldn’t be nice.”

The university said that Edinburgh will establish a new race investigation group that will actively support Edinburgh’s call to establish a center for the investigation of racism, colonialism and anti -black violence. And find rooms for a community area.

Mathieson said that the university has a lot of work to understand why the university is so few black staff and students. In contrast, one -third of the students, including about 9,300 students from China, including Asian.

Edinburgh said he would finance new scholarships for students from reduced groups. “Some sources of the university may turn and guide it.” Nevertheless, the university said that if the conditions limit the money for certain purposes, he may not be able to reuse some inheritances related to slavery or colonialism.