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NuclearDem

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10. That's a popular misconception.

Reply to edhopper (Reply #5)

Fri Mar 27, 2015, 01:15 PM

Mar 2015

It did start as a tool to discourage hyperbolic uses of Nazi comparisons, but nothing about it says invoking Hitler or Nazis causes someone to lose an argument.

There are completely valid comparisons to Hitler and the Nazis; for all other uses, there's the reductio ad Hitlerum.

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Does it violate Goodwin's Law [View all] edhopper Mar 2015 OP

No. Not when it's true. But I don't believe that the Republican Party are Nazis, though. BlueCaliDem Mar 2015 #1

how can you say that? guillaumeb Mar 2015 #2

Well... Hitler did put quite a bit of funding towards building new roads. Lancero Mar 2015 #4

But Eisenhower started the interstate highway system guillaumeb Mar 2015 #7

True, though I was thinking the comparison was with the modern GOP not the old one. Lancero Mar 2015 #9

State religion? rogerashton Mar 2015 #6

I meant the NAZI philosophy itself guillaumeb Mar 2015 #11

Nothing violates Godwin's law. NuclearDem Mar 2015 #3

I thought Goodwin's Law edhopper Mar 2015 #5

That's a popular misconception. NuclearDem Mar 2015 #10

is reductio ad hitlerum guillaumeb Mar 2015 #8

I can't take credit for the wording. NuclearDem Mar 2015 #13

There is no such "law" it is an axiom largely used to frame anything short of Hitler as acceptable TheKentuckian Mar 2015 #12

They're not, and so it does. Donald Ian Rankin Mar 2015 #14

Whoever appointed Godwin God did not have the authority to do so. nt Zorra Mar 2015 #15