...Its name is a pun on reductio ad absurdum, and was coined by an academic ethicist, Leo Strauss, in 1953. Engaging in this fallacy is sometimes known as playing the Nazi card, by analogy to playing the race card. Read full entry
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- 1.Reductio ad Hitlerum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- 3 Allegations of Reductio ad Hitlerum in practice. 4 In popular culture. 5 See also ... The phrase reductio ad Hitlerum is first known to have appeared in ...
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- 2.Godwin's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- ... against the use of arguments in the widespread reductio ad Hitlerum form. ... fallacy of reductio ad Hitlerum to online discussion ... Reductio ad Hitlerum ...
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Is Y!A Politics the reason why Was Godwin's Law conceived on
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Oh no, it goes WAAAAAAYYYYY back. There were probably moderate Nazis who compared each other to Hitler. |
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Anyone else tired of "Reductio I see it on here all the time.
Hitler supported x, so x must
be evil.
The majority of the time it's
a complete myth that he did or
supported many of the things
people say on here. I just
can't believe some of the
stupidity that I see.
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Hitler was a vegetarian. I am a vegetarian. Am I evil? Yes it is completely stupid. Just like Einstein supporting something automatically makes it right. |
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Do you like the creationists' |
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Of course I like it. It's just evidence that Creationists know absolutely nothing about the theory of evolution AND history! XD |
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