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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 755334" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p><strong><a href="http://biggovernment.com/tslagle/2010/07/25/racism-charge-loses-debate/" target="_blank">Godwin’s Law II: ‘Racism’ Charge Loses Debate</a></strong></p><p></p><p> by <strong><a href="http://biggovernment.com/author/tslagle" target="_blank"> Tim Slagle </a> </strong> We owe a great favor to Mike Godwin. Those of us who have spent any amount of time arguing nonsense on the Internet are familiar with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law" target="_blank">Godwins Law</a>. Briefly, Godwins Law states: “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches … given enough time, all discussions —regardless of topic or scope —inevitably wind up being about Hitler and the Nazis.”</p><p> <img src="http://biggovernment.com/files/2010/07/Bush-Hitler-300x255.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p> The most wonderful aspect of Godwin is that “there is a tradition in many newsgroups, and other Internet discussion forums that once such a comparison is made, the thread is finished and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically ‘lost’ whatever debate was in progress.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 755334, member: 12952"] [B][URL="http://biggovernment.com/tslagle/2010/07/25/racism-charge-loses-debate/"]Godwin’s Law II: ‘Racism’ Charge Loses Debate[/URL][/B] by [B][URL="http://biggovernment.com/author/tslagle"] Tim Slagle [/URL] [/B] We owe a great favor to Mike Godwin. Those of us who have spent any amount of time arguing nonsense on the Internet are familiar with [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law"]Godwins Law[/URL]. Briefly, Godwins Law states: “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches … given enough time, all discussions —regardless of topic or scope —inevitably wind up being about Hitler and the Nazis.” [IMG]http://biggovernment.com/files/2010/07/Bush-Hitler-300x255.jpg[/IMG] The most wonderful aspect of Godwin is that “there is a tradition in many newsgroups, and other Internet discussion forums that once such a comparison is made, the thread is finished and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically ‘lost’ whatever debate was in progress.” [/QUOTE]
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