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To: HiTech RedNeck

Those who don’t learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. BTW, Godwin himself has argued that some analogies to Germany are legit. See the following from Wikipedia:

Godwin’s law itself can be abused as a distraction, diversion or even as censorship, fallaciously miscasting an opponent’s argument as hyperbole when the comparisons made by the argument are actually appropriate.[9] Similar criticisms of the “law” (or “at least the distorted version which purports to prohibit all comparisons to German crimes”) have been made by Glenn Greenwald.[10]

In 2014, Australian journalist Jenna Price[11] compared the Australian Government to the Nazi Party for its treatment of asylum seekers. Mike Godwin himself commented on Twitter that these comparisons were justified.[12]


185 posted on 08/29/2015 11:50:15 AM PDT by dschapin
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To: dschapin

So you have to reach to Australia for your justification hmm


189 posted on 08/29/2015 11:52:39 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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