I think it doesn’t matter if they remove his honoris causa, he’s dead and honoris causa are basically paid papers they are not worth anything. You can hate the character but you can’t remove what he’s done to deserve an award.
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>But the experts concluded that **rescinding the honour posthumously would give the impression that the university was trying to absolve itself of blame** and brush its past mistake under the carpet.Instead, the **doctorate should stay in place to “serve as a permanent warning”** to people and institutions of falling under the influence of ideological extremism.
Given that this isn’t a statue or monument, which takes up public space and in a very prominent way, I fully agree with the conclusion.
Think of it as punishment: the university will have to live with its past decision and face that again and again, and explain again and again.
And before anyone says “but monuments, but names”, those are different. Both monuments and names are unique: you can only have one monument on the space it occupies and you can only have one (main) name to something, so by keeping it you’re providing prominence to something.
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I think it doesn’t matter if they remove his honoris causa, he’s dead and honoris causa are basically paid papers they are not worth anything. You can hate the character but you can’t remove what he’s done to deserve an award.
For more context:
>But the experts concluded that **rescinding the honour posthumously would give the impression that the university was trying to absolve itself of blame** and brush its past mistake under the carpet.Instead, the **doctorate should stay in place to “serve as a permanent warning”** to people and institutions of falling under the influence of ideological extremism.
Given that this isn’t a statue or monument, which takes up public space and in a very prominent way, I fully agree with the conclusion.
Think of it as punishment: the university will have to live with its past decision and face that again and again, and explain again and again.
And before anyone says “but monuments, but names”, those are different. Both monuments and names are unique: you can only have one monument on the space it occupies and you can only have one (main) name to something, so by keeping it you’re providing prominence to something.