[JasonC]

Godwin's Avenger. You just lost this argument, the author is right.

[MrB]

So... we can’t point out any leader’s fascist policies, nor the parallels to another point in history as a warning?

[subterfuge]

Radicals like Brrack deserve what they get.

[fr_freak]

Godwin's Avenger. You just lost this argument, the author is right.

Most people would agree that we should learn from history so that we do not repeat its mistakes. However, now you are suggesting that we completely ignore one of the premiere events in history simply because someone came up with a lame internet policy? We should just ignore the striking similarities so that we don't look uncool to the internet geeks? I don't think so.

The author is right only in that a great many conservatives are wondering aloud if we are not seeing a socialist dictator in the making. What the author fails to understand is that it is possible those conservatives are correct.

[sefarkas]

Godwin's Avenger. You just lost this argument, the author is right.

The only ones who are calm are the ones having drinks at the 19th hole; they're waiting for the gullible Conservatives to fund more RINO campaigns. The country-club Republicans don't care if they win or lose, just as long as they get the campaign contributions to feed on. For the RINOs, it is even better to lose because else wise they would spend their whole time in office explaining to Conservative supporters why they vote for, or give political cover to Democrat initiatives.

[SpaceBar]

“Godwin's law” was coined by a liberal to short circuit embarrassing comparisons.

[tarheelswamprat]

Godwin's Avenger. You just lost this argument, the author is right.

No, JasonC, you just demonstrated that your comprehension of Godwin's Law is flawed and your attempted application of it in this thread is incorrect.

Godwin's Law states: "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1." It is a statistical observation of a Usenet(and now Internet) discussion phenomenon. It makes no judgment about the validity or truth of the analogy in a particular argument.

The fact that a fallacious "tradition" has arisen in online discussion fora that the mere mention of a Nazi comparison automatically loses the argument is merely a tactic adopted by dishonest or incompetent protagonists as a mechanism to forestall debate and evade having to actually demonstrate whether or not the analogy is valid for the particular topic under discussion.

Mike Godwin himself acknowledged that making the Nazi allusion did not automatically void or discredit the argument, and he clearly stated that he formulated Godwin's Law in order to discourage or minimize the trivializing effect its over usage would have on substantive debate.

Whether Horowitz' premise and argument has merit is certainly debatable, but even the creator of Godwin's Law himself would laugh at your speciously clumsy attempt to avoid making your case. You're no Godwin's Avenger - you're more like Godwin's Mangler... /grin