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Originally Posted by Alan Kaufman

My pardon for not responding to your earlier postings.

Actually standard practice would be to beg *taglines*'s pardon for not responding, rather than offering tagline your pardon, which is not called for, as far as I can tell.

I can't even offer a very original response here but must repeat what I wrote to someone earlier who objects to my use of the Holocaust.

I refuse to accept any attempt to prevent my finding contemporary relevence (sic) to the Holocaust. Period. Whatever connection, link, I can find between the Holocaust and our contemporary condition, I shall express.

Shorter, clearer version of the above. "I'll call you Nazis anytime I feel like it and you should suck it up and agree with me because Nazis persecuted my family."

I am, of course, very sorry that Nazis persecuted anyone. I do not agree that your family history gives you the right to get away with calling people Nazis for liking e-books. Nor do I agree that liking e-books makes us Nazi-like or even reprehensible in some more minor way.

It is, frankly, astonishing to me that you would *begin* the conversation by calling us Nazis and then complain because *we* are impolite to *you*.

Yet I did not see anyone raise miuch (sic) or any objection to Tarrintino's (sic) use of the Holocaust.

If it makes you feel any better I didn't complain because I wasn't aware it existed: I hate Quentin Tarantino's work with a passion and avoid it as assiduously as in the future I shall avoid yours. For different reasons, of course--his work, while stomach-turningly violent, is at least comprehensible.

But it is not only my history. It is yours too.

In the sense that my grandfather was thrown in concentration camp, and very nearly died, for aiding the Dutch Resistance, sure. And your point was what, again?