Oh, look! Post #448, wardaddy mentions "the Hitler youth brigades" -- so, "Ok for me but not for thee", right?
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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
@sfmnemonic
Replying to @edgeoforever@danielleiat and @mcimaps
No suspension required.
5:31 PM . Jun 4, 2017 • TweetDeck
danielle 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.
woodpusher:
"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." And yet... and yet... it remains true that wardaddy was the first to bring up the name Hitler on this thread, and for anyone not familiar with the alleged ins-&-outs of Godwin's law, that would seem to offer permission for others to also use the "H-word".
Indeed, while we're talking about "Godwin's law", let's remember that Godwin himself is a raving nut-case:
"In December 2015, Godwin commented on the Nazi and fascist comparisons being made by several articles about Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, saying: 'If you're thoughtful about it and show some real awareness of history, go ahead and refer to Hitler when you talk about Trump, or any other politician.'[12]"
So... according to Godwin himself, it's A-OK to call Donald Trump a Nazi, just not those Godwin favors.
