My favorite Worldly Philosopher, the Father of Capitalism, Adam Smith is being targeted by these progressive iconoclasts now. The Edinburgh City Council apparently formed a group to investigate the cities statues, street names and other icons of heritage for potential trigger warnings.
Fortunately some are speaking out against such stupidity.
A leading anti-racist campaigner has hit back after several commentators accused him of wanting to ‘tear down’ statues and ‘defile’ Adam Smith’s grave.
www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com
Just to be clear, Adam Smith had nothing but contempt for the Institution of Slavery and always critical and condemned it. He was also critical of the Mercantilism system as well which had a large focus on expansion of the exploitation of colonies for wealth. Of course this should go without saying, as Adam Smith helped found the system that replaced Mercantilism.