Anti-semitism isn't hard to find away from the 'Cat (out in the real world) either. See the brief cut and paste below from today's Chicago Tribune.


a.p. Northwestern University tenured engineering professor Arthur Butz commented in the Chicago Tribune and in the Iranian press that he agreed with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's assertions that the Holocaust is a myth.

Butz, a tenured Northwestern professor since 1974, is known for denying that the Nazis killed 6 million Jews during World War II.

Butz wrote that the Holocaust didn't happen, that it is a "deliberately contrived falsehood" and that its promulgation was motivated by the desire to create a Jewish state in the Middle East. About Ahmadinejad, he wrote: "I congratulate him on becoming the first head of state to speak out clearly on these issues and regret only that it was not a Western head of state."-Online Chicago Trib. 2/7/06

That a person who has acheived Butz' level of academic and professional success (for those of you ouside the US, Northwestern is a very well regarded school (hell, I couldn't get in... but I digress) can not only hold, but disseminate such a ludicrous opinion and still remain in a position of influence just boils my blood. Evidently, ignorance does not preclude one from gaining tenure at Northwestern.