I wondered how long it would take for someone to drag the Nazi’s into the discussion.
Godwin’s Law FAQ
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“How to post about Nazis and get away with it”
One of the most famous pieces of Usenet trivia out there is “if you mention
Hitler or Nazis in a post, you’ve automatically ended whatever discussion
you were taking part in”. Known as Godwin’s Law, this rule of Usenet has a
long and sordid history on the network - and is absolutely wrong. This FAQ
is an attempt to set straight as much of the history and meaning of Godwin’s
Law as possible, and hopefully encourage users to invoke it a bit more
sparingly. Of course, knowing Usenet, it won’t do an ounce of good...
I guess we’re done with rational discourse.
If you are discussing someone who takes money from and meets publicly with the internet's number one Nazi, Don Black, then you are probably going to have to address the Nazi question.
And if you're talking about Ron Paul you're not only going to have to address the Nazi question, but the Truther question, and the Code Pink question, and the MoveOn.org question, and the treason question, and the honesty question and the sanity question.
Um, Ron Paul, either by his actions or inaction, has done that.