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madinmaryland

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4. An interesting comment about Godwin's law that I just read...
Wed Aug 19, 2015, 06:18 PM
Aug 2015
Although falling foul of Godwin's law tends to cause the individual making the comparison to lose his argument or credibility, Godwin's law itself can be abused as a distraction, diversion or even as censorship, fallaciously miscasting an opponent's argument as hyperbole when the comparisons made by the argument are actually appropriate.[9] Similar criticisms of the "law" (or "at least the distorted version which purports to prohibit all comparisons to German crimes&quot have been made by Glenn Greenwald.[10]

I think there is nothing wrong with looking at policies that resemble Nazi Germany and seeing if there really are any comparisons. You seem to have found an interesting comparison. Where it diverges, is that Germany was not a democracy by the time your article was written. We at least have some checks and balances set up that would prevent many of the atrocities of the third reich. There is no way that citizens of the United States would deny rights of citizenship to those who already have it.

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