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Invoking Hitler, aka Godwin's Law [1], is a strong indicator that you're no longer listening to counterarguments. Also, your quotes are talking about China, no

• macewindu 7y ago
  > Invoking Hitler, aka Godwin's Law [1], is a strong indicator that you're no longer listening to counterarguments. Sigh, surely you realize that in this context, both Hitler and his equal, Churchill are relevant.
• bsanr2 7y ago
  Invoking Hitler specifically when speaking about the history of genocide by European powers doesn't seem particularly inappropriate. I'm trying to understand the emotionally-charged responses to macewindu's comments, as they're not particularly inflammatory vis a vis the history being discussed; white fragility[1] comes to mind. It's important to understand when one's responses might be influenced by the defensiveness they feel towards a perceived attack on their values. macewindu hasn't been wrong, but he has drawn attention to events that people who feel pride in the progressiveness of Western civilization would feel deeply shameful of, and it's understandable but unacceptable for that to draw out juvenile declamations like calling these facts of history, "anti-Western conspiracy theories." Be better than that. [1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_privilege#White_fragility https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_privilege#White_fragil...