The overused 'Nazi' insult - (overuse has effect of trivializing Hitler's crimes vs. humanity!)

TOWNHALL.COM ^ | JUNE 29, 2005 | JEFF JACOBY

[CHARLITE]

The most striking thing about the uproar over Illinois Senator Dick Durbin

[CHARLITE]

Politically impotent, petty tyrants use the "Nazi-Hitler" slur to fill the void where ideas and policy proposals should be.

[Constitution Day]

Oh well. So do some Freepers.

[Publius6961]

Oh well. So do some Freepers.

None that I consider intellectually competent.
When those words appear, I disappear.

[Constitution Day]

None that I consider intellectually competent.

I agree, but they are also emotionally incompetent.
I'm with you, though...I also disappear.

It's too bad we don't have some sort of 'Ignore List' feature.

[Uncledave]

It's Godwin's law in a live political context:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law

"As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one."

[meadsjn]

...there is no equivalence between the treatment of several hundred Muslim detainees in Guantanamo — some of which may have been appalling, but none of which has been fatal — and the Nazis’ genocidal slaughter of 6 million Jews during the Holocaust or Stalin’s imprisonment of 25 million prisoners in Siberian slave camps or the mass murder by Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge of nearly 2 million of their fellow Cambodians.

... or the Democrat slaughter of 40+ million American babies.

Of course, Pol Pot, Hitler, Stalin, Idi Amin, etc., at least had to create some justification more convincing than "convenience".