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Are_grits_groceries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 11:17 AM Original message |
Every time somebody makes a Hitler or Nazi comparison, |
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Buzz Clik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 11:19 AM Response to Original message |
1. If they simply recognized that such claims were incredibly stupid, it would be a good start. |
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Are_grits_groceries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 11:21 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Unfortunately, I think we are past |
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Buzz Clik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 11:23 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Agreed. |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 01:48 PM Response to Reply #1 |
37. So, we should ignore the links between modern conservatives and NAZIs? |
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GreenEyedLefty (708 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 11:23 AM Response to Original message |
4. Overheard at health care rally: "Hitler was a communist!" |
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question everything (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 11:26 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Right after: get the government out of my Medicare?" |
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lysosome (205 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 11:43 AM Response to Reply #4 |
18. That's because of idiots like this |
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tuckessee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 12:09 PM Response to Reply #4 |
28. Well, he was more communist in theory than not. |
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GreenEyedLefty (708 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 12:37 PM Response to Reply #28 |
34. I've read them, thanks. |
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arcadian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 11:24 AM Response to Original message |
5. Godwin is a Nazi sympathizer. Look it up. |
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question everything (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 11:31 AM Response to Reply #5 |
13. I did, but perhaps you have other sources |
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arcadian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 11:59 AM Response to Reply #13 |
25. Did you read the part about Godwin's father? |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 02:07 PM Response to Reply #25 |
39. Sins of the father, huh? (nt) |
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question everything (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 07:18 PM Response to Reply #25 |
45. If we were to judge people by the sins of their fathers, then none of the Kennedies |
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Common Sense Party (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 11:25 AM Response to Original message |
6. Agreed. |
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Are_grits_groceries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 11:26 AM Response to Reply #6 |
8. I'm talking about everybody. |
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question everything (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 11:28 AM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Right. I have heard once that the first to invoke the terms Hitler on Nazi |
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GreenEyedLefty (708 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 11:28 AM Response to Reply #6 |
11. Some of *'s policies were just a tad fascist... |
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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 11:28 AM Response to Original message |
10. The last 8 years we (and move on, others) compared bush to hitler a lot |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 11:35 AM Response to Reply #10 |
16. There was a big difference, BushCo's actions from the stolen elections, |
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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 11:36 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Glad all that has been reversed. (nt) |
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DCKit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 01:38 PM Response to Reply #10 |
35. Sure, Nazi got thrown around a lot, but Fascist was used far more often. |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 11:29 AM Response to Original message |
12. I've got to admit that I used to call |
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Are_grits_groceries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 11:35 AM Response to Reply #12 |
15. I'm guilty too. |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 11:32 AM Response to Original message |
14. The catch is, it's impossible to speak of very real FASCISM w/o the obvious references... |
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Are_grits_groceries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 11:49 AM Response to Reply #14 |
22. The arguments roll to extremes. |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 12:18 PM Response to Reply #22 |
30. I suspect, too, that RW propagandists are strategically using the criticisms of Bush/Cheney... |
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Are_grits_groceries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 12:20 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. That's the truth. |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 12:24 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. "You gotch yer fascism in my communism!" - "You gotch yer communism in my fascism!" |
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Ozymanithrax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 11:44 AM Response to Original message |
19. Every time somebody makes a Hitler or Nazi comparison, |
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tuckessee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 11:46 AM Response to Original message |
20. So you think there are never any legitimate comparisons to the Third Reich era? |
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Are_grits_groceries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 12:02 PM Response to Reply #20 |
26. No I don't want to forget it. |
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ashling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 11:46 AM Response to Original message |
21. Every time someone mentions Hitler or Nazis |
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Swamp Rat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 11:51 AM Response to Original message |
23. Heil Godwin! |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 01:44 PM Response to Reply #23 |
36. Super Duper Super Monkey. |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 11:52 AM Response to Original message |
24. I think these people that throw fascism around are confused as to where it lies on the political |
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arcadian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
27. Ich schwöre bei Gott diesen heiligen Eid, daß ichdem Führer des Deutschen Reiches und Volkes, Godwin |
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Are_grits_groceries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 12:16 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. Well, I'm not going to swear an oath with my life |
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arcadian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 12:25 PM Response to Original message |
33. People that invoke Godwin's Law are nothing but a bunch of Brown shirts. |
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ThomWV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 02:01 PM Response to Original message |
38. The Hitler comparisons are always wrong, but the Nazi comparisons may be useful |
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Are_grits_groceries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 03:44 PM Response to Reply #38 |
43. I am not saying ignore history. |
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aint_no_life_nowhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 02:33 PM Response to Original message |
40. Blacks were put into concentration camps by the Nazis during WWII |
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AntiFascist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 02:54 PM Response to Original message |
41. It's not just Godwin's Law... |
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Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 03:29 PM Response to Original message |
42. Careful, some at DU take ENORMOUS offense to G's Law. |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-04-09 04:58 PM Response to Original message |
44. The problem with Godwin's Law is that some politics really is comparable to Nazis/Fascism. |
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