Why "Godwin's Law" doesn't apply to Donald Trump
http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/001122.html
Let's get this straight once and for all: Comparisons between Adolf
Hitler and Donald Trump do *not* invoke "Godwin's Law."
Godwin's Law applies to discussions where Nazi analogies make no sense.
Comparing a strict physical education teacher with Hitler, for example,
is an obvious invocation of Godwin's Law.
However, Godwin's Law *explicitly* does not apply when actual Nazi
parallels are in play.
In the case of Donald Trump, we have a grandiose buffoon spouting
outright lies and hate speech, triggering racial violence, demanding the
deportation of eleven million plus people including American citizens,
retroactive stripping of citizenship, and attracting crowds who shout
"white power" and hand out literature lauding that "Trump will do to the
dirty Hispanics what Hitler did to the dirty Jews."
The parallels are obvious and on-point.
Godwin is not in scope.
Nazism and 1930s Germany very much is.
Q.E.D.
--Lauren--
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