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Citing Godwin's Law[1], the meaning of "Nazi", "Hitler", "facist", "racist", "sexist", and all the other "-ists" today is:

"Someone or something which I do not like."

[1]: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GodwinsLaw

>A real invocation of Godwin's Law is really an accusation of poor debating, as it amounts to accusing your opponent of comparing you to an atrocity so evil as to be non-debatable, which is not only very rarely a fair comparison, but also is very insensitive to real-life victims and their descendants. Usually, it's seen as an act of desperation, in the sense that you've run out of better arguments.



Except that's not the definition of either of those words, and has nothing to do with what they actually mean.

It's just an internet meme - designed to be, you know, cute and funny.

Try your local library instead.


Godwin's Law actually predates the internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_Hitlerum

Whatever the law might be called, the result is the same: The vapid use of words as fallback insults leads to the words inevitably losing any valuable meaning.

Kelly called Trump fascist invoking Hitler, Harris called Trump fascist in kind, Democrats called Trump and Republicans racists/sexists/rapists/fascists.

As a reasonable man, all I can take away is that you guys don't like Trump and Republicans and everyone who sides with them. If that's your mojo then that's fine, but those words are otherwise worthless as far as I'm concerned. Please stop violating Godwin's Law and make an argument worth discussing instead.


Reductio ad Hitlerum doesn't have anything to do with what those words mean, either.

Or have any bearing otherwise on what Harris said in that context.




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