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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRemember when "Godwin's Law" was still in full effect?
I don't know whether to or
It's horrifying how ONE person/One event changed EVERYTHING.
rampartc
(5,434 posts)we will have to invent new internet laws to describe the trump era.
tonedevil
(3,022 posts)effect. The law states:
As a discussion on the Internet grows longer, the likelihood of a blockquote]full of a person's being compared to Hitler or another Nazi reference, increases.
There isn't any contest or idea that if you are the party that brings up Hittler and/or Nazies you lose.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)the acceleration of fascistic, anti-democracy strategies and goals. References to Nazis are no longer irritatingly stupid and boring. A leading expert in authoritarian takeovers, asked what concerned lay people should watch for, said we need to watch out for "mean people."
I just heard that one husband who would talk in a study group at church about Yom Kippur in honor of a Jewish grandparent didn't this year. They have a business here to worry about, and people are getting mean.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Scapegoating
Fear Mongering
Racist
Militaristic
Propagandizing
Misogynistic
Reactionary
Jingoistic
Authoritarian
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,698 posts)they just use different tools in differing times and situations.
Generally, though, they all do the same things to take over a government.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Short enough to fit on a t-shirt, long enough to maintain the pretense of depth.
Wounded Bear
(58,698 posts)that really needed to be futhered. Trump didn't just materialize out of thin air, the Repubs have been laying the groundwork for a one party takeover of our government for decades. Far, far too many people who were trying to warn us about authoritarianism were told to shut up because they were just falling into the "Godwin's Law" trap.
History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme, and those who were actually listening to the music building to the current crescendo were shut down because "Godwin's Law."
Ferrets are Cool
(21,109 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,698 posts)was just thinking how the RW noise machine and echo chamber has distorted discourse in our country over the last 20-30 years, and I'm not happy.
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)There are far right nationalists all over the world. Hitler wasn't the only one.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,109 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,355 posts)Link to tweet
"By all means, compare these shitheads to Nazis. Again and again. I'm with you."
https://gizmodo.com/godwin-of-godwins-law-by-all-means-compare-these-shi-1797807646
And about the Trump regime:
His defense: Its a real exaggeration, of course. In Nazi Germany, they were keeping the Jews from leaving the country.
Link to tweet
John Podhoretz: "Stop already with the Nazi and Hitler analogies. Really. Stop. What's happening is its own kind of bad and you court discrediting the seriousness of your complaints about it by overstating things so tastelessly and wrongly."
Link to tweet
Mike Godwin: "My answer: if your argument is that terrible policy is not really as bad as what the Nazis did, thats a weak defense."
https://www.pajiba.com/politics/the-guy-who-came-up-with-godwins-law-now-says-its-ok-to-compare-the-white-house-to-nazis.php