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To: TigerClaws

Can any of those morons actually define ‘fascism ‘?


9 posted on 02/03/2017 8:02:02 AM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: jazminerose

Fascism = Hitler.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_Hitlerum

Reductio ad Hitlerum (pseudo-Latin for “reduction to Hitler”; sometimes argumentum ad Hitlerum, “argument to Hitler”, or ad Nazium, “to Nazism”) is the attempt to invalidate someone else’s position on the basis that the same view was held by Adolf Hitler or the Nazi Party,[1] for example: “Hitler believed in eugenics, X believes in eugenics, therefore X is a Nazi”.[2]

Coined by Leo Strauss in 1951, reductio ad Hitlerum borrows its name from the term used in logic, reductio ad absurdum (reduction to the absurd).[1] According to Strauss, reductio ad Hitlerum is a form of ad hominem, ad misericordiam, or a fallacy of irrelevance. The suggested rationale is one of guilt by association. It is a tactic often used to derail arguments, because such comparisons tend to distract and anger the opponent, as Hitler and Nazism have been condemned in the modern world.[3]


12 posted on 02/03/2017 8:04:26 AM PST by TigerClaws
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