> From: Brian <http://www.cs..edu/~b> > Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2021 13:03:32 -0700 > > The ACM recently named Aho and Ullman as Turing Award winners, and this > has led to an impassioned discussion on the UCB EECS faculty mailing > list about Ullman's racist and xenophobic published remarks about how we > shouldn't allow Iranians into the US because Iran doesn't recognize > Israel. This pushes all my buttons about how otherwise progressive > people can just abandon their principles when it comes to Israel. We just recently listened to: https://www.audacy.com/podcasts/politically-re-active-with-w-kamau-bell-hari-kondabolu-45186/marc-lamont-hill-kamaus-mom-357878862 (It's not specifically about Iran, but it seems relevant to your comment.) > But that's not why I'm bringing it up; just now one of my colleagues > posted this link: > > https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/12/einsteins-travel-diaries-reveal-shocking-xenophobia > > I had no idea! Me, neither. People can change and maybe Albert Einstein would have. Dr. Seuss did revise some of his books later in life.