06-03-2014, 06:48 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-03-2014, 07:37 PM by FireIceTalon.)
Seems you can't even mention Hitler's name anymore, regardless of context, w/o someone screaming "Godwin's Law!!!"
It's become ridiculous (at least in cyberspace) to the point where it has become a tautology. But as I see it, Godwin's Law was never legitimate anyways. For there are times when a comparison to Hitler or Nazism is pretty fair or even downright accurate. Which would discredit "Godwin's Law" as even being a law at all. All it is now is a code phrase to justify racism, sexism, or try to discredit someone's point no matter how correct they may be.
It's become ridiculous (at least in cyberspace) to the point where it has become a tautology. But as I see it, Godwin's Law was never legitimate anyways. For there are times when a comparison to Hitler or Nazism is pretty fair or even downright accurate. Which would discredit "Godwin's Law" as even being a law at all. All it is now is a code phrase to justify racism, sexism, or try to discredit someone's point no matter how correct they may be.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (on capitalist laws and institutions)
"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (on capitalist laws and institutions)