{"id":7903,"date":"2011-08-05T00:59:53","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T08:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=7903"},"modified":"2011-08-05T00:59:53","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T08:59:53","slug":"godwins-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/godwins-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Godwin’s Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Godwin’s law<\/strong> (also known as \u00a0Godwin’s Rule of Nazi Analogies<\/strong> or \u00a0Godwin’s Law of Nazi Analogies<\/strong>) <\/span>is a humorous observation made by \u00a0Mike Godwin<\/a> in 1990 <\/span>that has become an \u00a0Internet adage<\/a>. It states: “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler \u00a0approaches \u00a0 100% .” \u00a0In other words, Godwin put forth the hyperbolic observation that, given enough time, in \u00a0any<\/em> online discussion\u2013regardless of topic or scope\u2013someone inevitably criticizes some point made in the discussion by comparing it to beliefs held by Hitler and the Nazis. –  \u00a0Wikipedia<\/em><\/p>\n

~<\/em><\/p>\n

I love this. This is the type of discovery that brings joy to my heart.<\/p>\n

The definition continues:<\/p>\n

Godwin’s law is often cited in online discussions as a deterrent against the use of arguments in the widespread \u00a0Reductio ad Hitlerum<\/a> <\/em>form.  \u00a0– Wikipedia<\/em><\/p>\n

“Reductio ad Hitlerum<\/em>” ?!?!<\/p>\n

I fucking love language.  \u00a0In fact, I made up a good word the other day:  \u00a0Whateverism<\/strong>.  \u00a0It’s the modern malaise, basically, and I’m against it.  \u00a0Please feel free to bandy this word about, if you’re not comfortable with Reductio ad Hitlerum.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Godwin’s law (also known as \u00a0Godwin’s Rule of Nazi Analogies or \u00a0Godwin’s Law of Nazi Analogies) is a humorous observation made by \u00a0Mike Godwin in 1990 that has become an \u00a0Internet adage. It states: “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[146,993,1102],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-23t","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}