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TONY ORTEGA
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[Kevin MacDonald in his university office]
Retired Cal State Long Beach professor Kevin MacDonald has become a pretty notorious source of inspiration to the “alt-right” movement, but when we wrote about him in the year 2000, he was virtually unknown outside of a few academics. As part of our Saturday bonus story program, we decided to bring this article over to our Substack so it has an easier-to-read, ad-free archival home. MacDonald himself hosted links to this story at his own website, along with his criticisms of it. Most recently, MacDonald has been writing about such subjects as Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes for Occidental Observer, whose tagline is “White Identity, Interests, and Culture.” Today’s piece was first published in New Times Los Angeles on April 20, 2000.
Last Tuesday morning, Kevin MacDonald didn’t sound like himself. Normally affable in a reserved sort of way, the Cal State Long Beach psychology professor was barely audible when speaking on the telephone from his Laguna Hills home. He sounded depressed and irritable. “I’m in a bad mood,” he warned, and blamed it on that morning’s monumental news.
Half a world away, a British judge had labeled historian David Irving a racist and an anti-Semite.
Irving had sued American Professor Deborah Lipstadt and her publisher, Penguin Books, saying that she had libeled him in her 1993 history of Holocaust denial. Irving — who claims there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz and that Jewish deaths at the hands of Nazis totaled closer to one million than six million — accused Lipstadt of damaging his reputation by suggesting that he had falsified history in his books. But in a 334-page decision, Judge Charles Gray agreed with Lipstadt that Irving had distorted facts to fit his bigoted views. Gray found for the defendants and ordered that Irving pay their legal costs, which Penguin Books estimated at more than $3 million.
Holocaust scholars and Jewish groups greeted the verdict with exultation. So badly had Holocaust historians wanted to see Irving defeated that the state of Israel had been persuaded to open Adolf Eichmann’s carefully guarded prison diary to the public. Several of the world’s most prominent Holocaust scholars had helped the defense and battled Irving over his interpretation of Nazi documents.
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Retired Cal State Long Beach professor Kevin MacDonald has become a pretty notorious source of inspiration to the “alt-right” movement, but when we wrote about him in the year 2000, he was virtually unknown outside of a few academics. As part of our Saturday bonus story program, we decided to bring this article over to our Substack so it has an easier-to-read, ad-free archival home. MacDonald himself hosted links to this story at his own website, along with his criticisms of it. Most recently, MacDonald has been writing about such subjects as Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes for Occidental Observer, whose tagline is “White Identity, Interests, and Culture.” Today’s piece was first published in New Times Los Angeles on April 20, 2000.
Last Tuesday morning, Kevin MacDonald didn’t sound like himself. Normally affable in a reserved sort of way, the Cal State Long Beach psychology professor was barely audible when speaking on the telephone from his Laguna Hills home. He sounded depressed and irritable. “I’m in a bad mood,” he warned, and blamed it on that morning’s monumental news.
Half a world away, a British judge had labeled historian David Irving a racist and an anti-Semite.
Irving had sued American Professor Deborah Lipstadt and her publisher, Penguin Books, saying that she had libeled him in her 1993 history of Holocaust denial. Irving — who claims there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz and that Jewish deaths at the hands of Nazis totaled closer to one million than six million — accused Lipstadt of damaging his reputation by suggesting that he had falsified history in his books. But in a 334-page decision, Judge Charles Gray agreed with Lipstadt that Irving had distorted facts to fit his bigoted views. Gray found for the defendants and ordered that Irving pay their legal costs, which Penguin Books estimated at more than $3 million.
Holocaust scholars and Jewish groups greeted the verdict with exultation. So badly had Holocaust historians wanted to see Irving defeated that the state of Israel had been persuaded to open Adolf Eichmann’s carefully guarded prison diary to the public. Several of the world’s most prominent Holocaust scholars had helped the defense and battled Irving over his interpretation of Nazi documents.
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Witness for the Persecution: Our early story on Kevin MacDonald and anti-Semitism
Retired Cal State Long Beach professor Kevin MacDonald has become a pretty notorious source of inspiration to the “alt-right” movement, but when we wrote about him in the year 2000, he was virtually unknown outside of a few academics.
tonyortega.substack.com