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To: Kornev
uh, Godwin's law only applies if he called you a nazi, goofball.

Nope.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.10/godwin.if_pr.html

280 posted on 10/07/2004 4:28:23 PM PDT by killjoy (Don't give me any of that intelligent life crap, just give me something I can blow up.)
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To: killjoy

Um, it still says one has to be compared to nazis. Simply bringing up nazis or WW2 isn't under this.


285 posted on 10/07/2004 4:31:31 PM PDT by Kornev
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To: killjoy
Yep.

From the Godwin piece you linked to: "The Nazi-comparison meme, I'd decided, had gotten out of hand - in countless Usenet newsgroups, in many conferences on the Well, and on every BBS that I frequented, the labeling of posters or their ideas as "similar to the Nazis" or "Hitler-like" was a recurrent and often predictable event. It was the kind of thing that made you wonder how debates had ever occurred without having that handy rhetorical hammer." This is from the Godwin article you linked to.

I did not compare you or your idea to Nazis or Nazism. You have the honor of being Chamberlain. Or is there some "law" against referring to historical appeasers as well?
286 posted on 10/07/2004 4:32:45 PM PDT by radicalamericannationalist (Kurtz had the right answer but the wrong location.)
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