I would really like to see people stop using "Godwin's Law" as a rhetorical cudgel, as though it were making a substantive comment that somehow refutes and inva

I would really like to see people stop using "Godwin's Law" as a rhetorical cudgel, as though it were making a substantive comment that somehow refutes and invalidates any possible reference to fascists. In this case, the reference was relevant to the discussion. The fact that some people have given a cutesy name to the act of referencing fascists is not a substantive or relevant point. As for the other point, I understand very well that the parent comment was trying to point out that the western world is also not perfect and so we should be careful when judging. That is indeed precisely the substance of my counterargument: this is exactly the "tu quoque fallacy." The moral imperfection of some other actor is entirely irrelevant to the question of whether a given actor is morally correct.