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Godwin's Law is still alive and well, it seems. While your choice of comparative examples is patently absurd, you're actually arguing for a principled approach
by cal5k 7y ago
Godwin's Law is still alive and well, it seems.
While your choice of comparative examples is patently absurd, you're actually arguing for a principled approach to governance rather than an activist one. And on that we agree - I think decisions should be made based on principle rather than based on who yells the loudest.
As for Facebook "mediating our cultural superstructure", this is a completely untestable and probably ideological claim.
- PhasmaFelis 7y ago> As for Facebook "mediating our cultural superstructure", this is a completely untestable and probably ideological claim. To the contrary, there's been quite a lot of research indicating that Facebook has an outsize influence on culture to the point that it's substantially affected elections (and not just America's). Google "facebook influence research" and you'll see plenty of interesting results.
- cal5k 7y agoI'd like to read the research. But it's almost certainly a) ex post facto, and b) based on a hypothesis that is infinitely more specific than "does Facebook mediate the cultural superstructure". "Cultural superstructure" is a term ripped right out of Marxist literature, so it's already so burdened with ideological implications as to be inappropriate for serious research.
- rexpop 7y agoFulfilling Godwin's Law is not a fallacy, but invoking it is.