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Vexcalibur
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29 Mar 2011, 9:47 pm

JakobVirgil wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
If the references are relevant to what is being discussed, there should be no problem


whatever himmler. :lol:

seriously outlawing comparing folks to nazis robs us of using it to describe authenticaly fascist movements.
we just have to be carefull

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Well, godwin's law does not outlaw anything.

But if the comparison is legitimate, and you had to point it out verbatim, is there any possible way you would win the debate?


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30 Mar 2011, 3:12 am

To quote Jon Stewart, "Only Hitler is Hitler."

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer



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30 Mar 2011, 6:04 am

Kraichgauer wrote:
To quote Jon Stewart, "Only Hitler is Hitler."

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


To be sure. But he had a lot of people helping him to his evil deeds. Read -Hitler's Willing Executioners- by Jonah Goldhagen. And Hitler was far the only German anti-Semite.

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