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760 posted on 03/09/2020 11:48:58 AM PDT by TruthWillWin
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772 posted on 03/09/2020 12:06:52 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 32:12))
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GODWINS LAW American attorney and author Mike Godwin in the Voice of America headquarters, 2017

Godwin's law (or Godwin's rule of Hitler analogies)[1][2] is an Internet adage asserting that "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1";[2][3] that is, if an online discussion (regardless of topic or scope) goes on long enough, sooner or later someone will compare someone or something to Adolf Hitler or his deeds, the point at which effectively the discussion or thread often ends. Promulgated by the American attorney and author Mike Godwin in 1990,[2] Godwin's law originally referred specifically to Usenet newsgroup discussions.[4] It is now applied to any threaded online discussion, such as Internet forums, chat rooms, and comment threads, as well as to speeches, articles, and other rhetoric[5][6] where reductio ad Hitlerum occurs.

Godwin has stated that he introduced Godwin's law in 1990 as an experiment in memetics.[2] In 2012, "Godwin's law" became an entry in the third edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.[7]

800 posted on 03/09/2020 1:51:06 PM PDT by DainBramage
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