If you read political blogs, you're familiar with Goodwin's Law. In it's simplest form, it states that you can't throw the word "Nazi" around during an argument. Well, it seems Goodwin has revised that a bit.
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American attorney and author Mike Godwin created an online meme-related rhetorical law, appropriately titled “Godwin’s Law.”
But
even according to Mike Godwin himself, the concept the “Godwin’s law” was not
to say comparing things to Hitler or Nazis made those claims false;
his hope for the “law” was to remind people to consider
deeply the comparisons they were making in the heat of an argument battle.
American
history has its own flirtations with fascism and racism and militarism, and
people have believed in any and all of these things, so with certain
individuals it has to come up from time to time. So it’s not the case that the
comparison is never valid. It’s just that, when you make the comparison, think
through what you’re saying, because there’s a lot of baggage there, and if
you’re going to invoke a historical period with that much baggage you better be
ready to carry it.
Here
is the tweet Mike Godwin has pinned to the top of his account.
By all means, compare
these s******** to Nazis. Again and again. I'm with you.
5:03
PM - 13 Aug 2017
The information
highway is in agreement as to the heinous nature of our current state of the union.
We are separating families and putting them in cages.
Daily
Kos 6/20/2018
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