In response to a ruling on abortion last September, Congressman Steve King said following law on reproductive rights equivalent to a Nazi guard saying he was following orders.
“That, Mr. Speaker, is a ‘modern-day’ equivalent of the Nazi prison guard saying 'I was just following orders,’” he said on the House floor Sept. 8, 2004. “It was all legal in Nazi Germany at the time.
In the wake of Dick Durbin's mea cupla - the right wing noise machine wins again - Raw Story has gone to the trouble of collecting Republican Nazi analogies. Once again, the refresher course on Godwin's law:
Godwin's law (also Godwin's rule of Nazi analogies) is an adage in Internet culture that was originated by Mike Godwin in 1990. The law states that:
As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
There is a tradition in many Usenet newsgroups that once such a comparison is made, the thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress.
Even the mainstream press is onto it now, as the Washington Post namechecks Godwin in covering the "controversy."
Raw Story's list is smugly satisfying, but ultimately serves only to push the topic of torture at Gitmo even further back.
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