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I think we can keep a lot of discussion without Godwin’s law or whatever: we really stuck on “Hitler”?

• tptacek 2y ago
  I'm not doing a "Godwin's law". I literally have on my screen a poll, which generated a whole news cycle, in which more people supported Hitler, in the United States, than are claimed to be supporting the CEO murderer here. My point --- I think obviously --- is that 15% support in an opinion poll is a meaningless metric. Tens of millions of Americans do not in fact support Hitler. There's a whole literature on why these kinds of crazy results pop out of opinion polls (read up for instance on acquiescence bias).
  • archagon 2y ago
    I’m not sure why you think tens of millions of Americans do not support Hitler in some way. Kanye seems to like him. Trump has said positive things about him. There are more white supremacists around than you might think.
    • tptacek 2y ago
      You know, I don't agree with you, but if you equate the mainstream-ness of people who approve of what the CEO killer did with those of Hitler supports, the dot product of our takes here will be strongly positive, and there's no need for us to hash this out.