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Who made up that silly rule?
by jki275 8y ago
Who made up that silly rule?
- krapp 8y agoAnalogies to the Nazis (which Neimoller's poem is, implying a slippery slope to mass graves or something equally terrible) and dystopian fiction have become so tedious and banal at this point that I group them together with Godwin's Law as examples of arguments with negative intellectual value. If a commenter is resorting to these, it's evidence they have little of value to add to the conversation beyond concern trolling. > Who made up that silly rule? I guess I did. But I can't be the only one sick of seeing these low effort memes pop up around here.
- jki275 8y agoGodwin's law doesn't say what you think it does. It's not a "low effort meme", it's appropriate sometimes.
- CompanionCuuube 8y agoPeople who end up on the wrong side of it too frequently.