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Originally Posted by Alan Kaufman
In ithe 90's made a great number of visits to Germany in my capacity as author but I had very different impressions. In fact, on my first night there, I asked my host, the head of a cultural institute, whether there was a rising Neo-Nazi problem in Germany and he promptly replied:"No!". An instant later, a van screeched past pursued by two police cars wth spinning blue lights and all three veered onto an embankment, braked, the van doors flew open, out jiumped a group of skinheads who charged up the hill as the police leaped from their cars and gave chase. At the top of the hill were hundreds of skinheads rioting against hundreds of police.
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Well, that just seems right damn convenient, doesn't it.
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You describe my essays and responses as harangues. True, some of my later responses have grown defensive. I think this is due, in part, to the extraordinary hostility that has erupted on this and other tech-freindly websites in response to my essays on Evergreen Review and The Huffington Post. I want to point you to, if I may, the responses on this website. I have been called every name in the book. I have been threatened with axphixiation by plastic bag. I have been the butt of every sort of vileness imaginable. Why?
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I'm going to say this really big and loud because I get the impression you cannot or will not read it unless I do so.
THE RESPONSES YOU GET ARE DIRECTLY
DUE TO YOUR INSULTS OF VIRTUALLY
EVERYONE!!!!!
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In other words: get with us or face vilification and abuse.
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Perhaps you should stop abusing US first. You STARTED BY ABUSING US.
And that is my point. Nobody on this board has abused you in nearly the manner that you've abused all of us.
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What I don't understand is why the need for the new technology in the first place? What is wrong with books? Libraries? The argument
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Nothing is wrong with books. I have rooms full of them, and I can have thousands MORE by using the technological tools available to me.
Here's a point that I don't think you've considered. If you hate technology so much that you define everyone using it as a Nazi, and YOU ARE USING technology, then by your own definition, YOU, ALAN KAUFMAN, ARE A NAZI. Does that sound right? I guess maybe it does follow logically. I do hope you aren't feeling abused?