It’s Holocaust Awareness Week at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The school employs a white supremacist to teach students English.
Specifically, an award-winning white supremacist. Teaching assistant Joshua McNair wrote an essay, “Organization, Cooperation and Action,” that was recognized by the “white nationalist” group Stormfront. He is pictured here shaking Holocaust denier David Irving’s hand in a picture from the Institute for Historical Review.
For some students, this doesn’t make a lot of sense, and Campus Press writer Tate Delloye talked to some of them.

“I don’t feel so great about him teaching at my school. I respect the University’s decision to keep him as a teacher, but I was shocked to find out that he was part of our faculty,” said Kara Zucker, co-chairwoman of Holocaust Awareness Week.
Zucker is worried that McNair is going to cause trouble during next week’s keynote speech for Holocaust Awareness Week. Debra [sic] Lipstadt is set to speak on Wednesday in the Glenn Miller Ballroom. Lipstadt is a long time critic of David Irving, a noted Holocaust denier.
McNair formed a student group, Student Advocates for Free Expression, that sponsored a speech by Irving in September of 2004.
“I’m really concerned that there will be a problem during Debra’s presentation. If Josh offends her, it would be disrespectful to her and my organization,” Zucker said.
Emem Ekiko, president of the Black Student Association feels much the same way.
“Having a narrow-minded professor is counteracting the University’s actions taken towards diversity. The University is hypocritical and simply paying a lot of lip service to diversity,” Ekiko said.

Deborah Lipstadt responds in the comments:

From my perspective, Mr. McNair is welcome to attend my lecture. He might actually learn something about David Irving, a man who was declared by Judge Charles Gray of the Royal High Court, to be a liar, Holocaust denier, a man with racist and antisemitic views, whose claims about history are a “travesty.”
See Judge Gray’s evaluation of Irving at www.hdot.org [click on Verdict and go to Part XIII].
See you this week.

The Colorado Daily’s Nicole Danna covers Holocaust Awareness Week, but writes nothing about the above controversy.

During late February each year, CU-Boulder student volunteers gather on campus at Norlin Quad to begin the painstaking task of setting up flags to represent the victims of the Holocaust.
The exhibit, a total of 25,000 flags, of which 17,787 represent the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust, is a physical reminder that accompanies the university’s 23rd annual Holocaust Awareness Week.
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This year’s speakers not only include Holocaust survivors, said Zucker, but also stories from resistance fighters, people from the Middle East and Africa, an Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker and a child survivor.

And in the Rocky Mountain Collegian, Colorado State junior Travis Dykes writes in a letter to the editor:

It irks me to see Holocaust remembrance solely remembering the Jewish dead. Yes they were the largest group targeted, but they don’t make up half the number of dead, especially when the figures for the number of Jewish dead include those killed in the ghettos and shootings and those of other targeted groups include only those killed in the camps. I don’t mean to say however that we shouldn’t remember the Jewish dead, what I mean is that during Holocaust remembrance week we should remember all those that died in the Holocaust, as well as those who died in similar slaughters such as Bosnia, Rwanda, Cambodia, and the current genocide in the Sudan.