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I think for the first time in history, this article committed suicide under the terms of Godwin's law before it was even navigated to. More seriously, this is
by harrytuttle 13y ago
I think for the first time in history, this article committed suicide under the terms of Godwin's law before it was even navigated to.
More seriously, this is standard practice: label the enemy, even if it's wrong or you created the label yourself.
- Renaud 13y agoInvoking Godwin's law is a bit easy. Not every reference to Hitler deserves to be struck down by it. What is happening in Russia is truly frightening and not necessarily that different in many respects to what happened in the 1930s: blame society's woes onto a minority that is slowly being deprived of its rights.
- neurotixz 13y agoFor the first time in my life, I disagree that Godwin Law's could be applied in this case. It is truly a sad day and and it really shows the incredibly wrong state of affairs in Russia when comparisons to Hitler are actually justified. In this case the parallels with the situation an the state of affairs in pre-war Germany cannot be denied. It shows the same willingness to create two classes of citizen, and the withdrawal of the rights of that second-class.
- seandougall 13y agoSigh. As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of an invocation of Godwin's Law approaches 1.