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You know, I'm increasingly becoming very disenchanted with Godwin's law. I think that Nazis are a great study and we should compare as many things as possible
by sroerick 12y ago
You know, I'm increasingly becoming very disenchanted with Godwin's law.
I think that Nazis are a great study and we should compare as many things as possible to them, as a cautionary tale.
I understand that "Nazi!" gets thrown around heedlessly, but I'm suspicious of any retorical device whose job is to tell you when to stop thinking.
- krapp 12y agoBut to be fair, most attempts to analogize Nazism and Hitler are intended to stop you from thinking and stifle debate. Once someone claims that, for example, the US government is the modern analogue to the Nazis and they'll come for you soon, dear hacker, the way they came for the Jews then they're saying that, as far as they're concerned, anyone who would suffer further debate about the issue is defending an absolute and irredeemable evil. Or they're just engaging in paranoid, thoughtless hyperbole. Either way, it isn't helpful.