Derek Scruggs

I agree with David Velleman at Left2Right. Having had my own recent brush with kooky holocaust deniers, I know that they see things through the crackpot worldview and looooove conspiracy theories, especially about Jews (of course).
David Irving has been shown to be a fraud in a court of law, and he has no one to […]

I don’t know why I feed the trolls. In the interest of free speech and all that, here’s her response. She lost me at “Jewish Communist.” Why not just “Soviets?” She took the rope and hung herself. The forensic evidence for the crimes of Mao and others is often very spotty - when’s the last […]

Today the Daily Northwestern printed letters to the editor in response to Arthur Butz’s column. In addition to the what you might expect – angry alumni expressing their displeasure, in which group you can place me – they also received a letter supporting Butz from a Michael Hoffman, editor of a publication called “Campaign for […]

Today the Daily Northwestern allowed Holocaust-denier Arthur Butz to write an opinion piece. If you click through you’ll see that I posted a short response.
This afternoon I received this email:

I was checking out the postings concerning Prof Butz and the “Holocaust”.
Derek, I’m asking this next question with the most inquisitive, forthright honesty I can. […]

I’m embarrassed to admit that my alma mater has its own Ward Churchill, an idiot named Arthur Butz.
From today’s Daily Northwestern:
McCormick Prof. Arthur Butz recently backed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in comments published by several Iranian news agencies. Calling the Holocaust a myth, Ahmadinejad said Israel should no longer exist as a country. The remarks […]