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Godwin's Law

FROM WIKI:
If an online discussion (regardless of topic or scope) goes on long enough, sooner or later someone will compare someone or something to Hitler or Nazism.
Promulgated by American attorney and author Mike Godwin in 1990, "Godwin's law" originally referred specifically to Usenet newsgroup discussions. It is now applied to any threaded online discussion, such as Internet forums, chat rooms, and comment threads, as well as to speeches, articles, and other rhetoric where ["reduction to Hitler"] occurs.
Godwin's law does not claim to articulate a fallacy; it is instead framed as a memetic tool to reduce the incidence of inappropriate hyperbolic comparisons.
In this article from December 2015, Mike Godwin states:
To be clear: I don’t personally believe all rational discourse has ended when Nazis or the Holocaust are invoked. But I’m pleased that people still use Godwin’s Law to force one another to argue more thoughtfully.
In reference to comparisons of Trump to Hitler, he suggests they're not necessarily inappropriate.
... the Internet gives more and more individuals both the information and the skepticism to question what politicians and others say in their Hitler-centered hyperboles. Just as importantly, the Internet gives us the tools to share our criticisms — including the appropriately appalled reaction to Trump’s statements — with one another more widely.




Being able to defend the comparison is the issue. Calling a feminist a feminazi because you don't like her is one thing. Saying this thing reminds me of Nazi Germany because of xxx and here's why is another.
Damn straight.