And yet... and yet... who was it that first played that card?
Oh, look! Post #448, wardaddy mentions "the Hitler youth brigades" -- so, "Ok for me but not for thee", right?
wardaddy: "Hitler cards are only played by the weak and feeble cowardly sorts who lack any wisdom beyond the self gratification of virtue projection borne at the cost of the mere aforementioned chunder"
No need to beat yourself up, FRiend, everybody understands how tempting it can be to call on, ahem, when your arguments are otherwise quite weak.
But the issue here is Jefferson Davis and whether he was truthful in saying, **AFTER** the fact, that Civil War was **NOT** all about slavery.
Plenty of quotes **BEFORE** the war suggest that protecting slavery was indeed foremost on secessionists minds, including Davis'.
Oh, look! Post #448, wardaddy mentions "the Hitler youth brigades" -- so, "Ok for me but not for thee", right?'
Context is everything. That's why you bastardize quotes and rip away context, to give appearance of support for your lame, baseless argument. Try the quote with context and describe what wardaddy was arguing.
wardaddy #448
Bro’s mini me brownie claims he’s a “professor”Well when I was at ole miss 40 years ago most professors were right leaning....I was libertarian leaning.....a long haired southern kid
Erwin Neumaier was a classical liberal...a veteran of Hitler youth brigades sent here and adopted as a wounded teen,,,.an orphan ... he had seen totalitarianism up close as a kid......he was my political theory advisor....I adored him.....steel trap mind
From Socrates to Kant we covered it all....even Fromm and Sartre and Camus and Bill Shakespeare ....and Aquinas....he was a devoted Catholic in Oxford
He figured Hobbes Leviathan as our warning sign. And who do you think he blamed most in the USA for that....ahem......care to hunch?.....he was a Jeffersonian idealist ...Erwin was though he also loved Madison and Mason.....and across the pond. Burke
Today nearly all liberal arts teachers are lefties .....if Bro is not he’s a unicorn
Mike Godwin, 2017
Edgeoforever edgeoforever • Jun4, 2017
@sfmnemonic - is the law suspended here? Can we call a Nazi a Nazi?MikeGodwin
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Replying to @edgeoforever@danielleiat and @mcimaps
No suspension required.
5:31 PM . Jun 4, 2017 • TweetDeckdanielle tcholakian . @danielieiat • Jun4,2017
Replying to @sfmnemonic@edgeoforever and@mcimaps
I keep trying to explain that to people! It doesn't count as "bringing up Nazis" when you're talking to a Nazi!Mike Godwin @sfmnemonic • Jun 4, 2017
I agree entirely!
It hardly invoked Godwin's Law when wardaddy observed that, as a student, he had a political advisor who was a veteran of Hitler youth brigades. As a supposed history professor, you were inferred to be either a liberal or a unicorn among that large group of liberals.
Note that TwelveOfTwenty #592 contains nothing but his Hitler nonsense, and does not relate to anything in the post to which it nominally purports to respond.
To: woodpusher; BroJoeK"It is untrue that I or anyone else in Germany wanted war in 1939." Berlin, 29 April, 1945, 4 a.m. Adolf Hitler
See how that works?
592 posted on 11/5/2021, 6:10:03 AM by TwelveOfTwenty
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Godwin's Law applies.