Balloon Juice - Interesting little back and forth

Interesting little back and forth between the Instapundit, Nick Denton, and Dave Winer. Then Winer then responds with this:

My brief response. In addition to being a technologist and living on the west coast of the US, I am also the first-generation American son of Holocaust survivors, born and raised in NY. Does Nick have any insight into my thinking? Clearly not.

I find this rather offensive, and very much like attempts by race-baiters to stifle any conversation about racial issues (You don’t know what you are talking about- You are not a black man). If the only people who are allowed to use the word holocaust are the survivors and the descendants of the survivors, then the words “Never Again” ring hollow. Surely Dave is just being lazy, and not really attempting to stifle debate with this trite response.

*** UPDATE ***

Nick Denton elaborates more eloquently on my previous comments.

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

“A king is only a king if we bow down.” – Rev. William Barber

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

In after Baud. Damn.

Be a wild strawberry.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Rupert, come get your orange boy, you petrified old dinosaur turd.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

People are complicated. Love is not.

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Interesting little back and forth