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Coined in 1990 by author and attorney Mike Godwin, Godwin’s Law was originally, to quote Godwin “a project in memetic engineering”, partially inspired by a 1980s article he read in Whole Earth Review in which they discuss the power of memes to spread ideas.
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Sources:
http://reason.com/archives/2005/07/14/hands-off-hitler
https://www.wired.com/1994/10/godwin-if-2/
http://jewcy.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/i_seem_be_verb_18_years_godwins_law
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/12/14/sure-call-trump-a-nazi-just-make-sure-you-know-what-youre-talking-about/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/6408927/Internet-rules-and-laws-the-top-10-from-Godwin-to-Poe.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mike_Godwin_at_Wikimedia_2010.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_Hitlerum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin’s_law
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_meme
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetics
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WM2007_Session_901_Mike_Godwin.jpg
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Godwin_WikiWorld.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mike_Godwin_June08_B_recrop_5_to_7.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Godwin%27s_law_t-shirt_at_Rally_to_restore_sanity,_2010.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mike_Godwin_at_Wikimedia_2010.jpg
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43 responses to “The Nazis, Hitler, The Internet, and Godwin’s Law”
did it get demonetized yet? :-d
https://youtu.be/3ToEvz-7trY
"By all means; call these people Nazis!"
-Godwin, after Trump's swastika-waving stormtroopers murdered a real American patriot in Charlottesville.
"There were very fine people on both sides."
-Fuehrer Trump's response
If the video above piqued your interest then you may also be interested to know Hitler was a Vegetarian…find out more by watching this video:
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Wait. When i say the wrong answer online i dont get the correct answer i just get called a retard.
It sounds like that bonus fact refuted itself
Wait…who pronounces it WhiKey instead of WeeKey? I have never once (before this video) heard someone say WhiKey when talking about a Wiki page.
seriously you are literally Hitler
When you remember that this was in your english exam before
I pronounce it as "Wee-ke" though. I am korrect
This video just got Godwin'd!!!
I find the modern misuse of the word 'law' troubling.
Is it an easter egg to find what word Simon intentionally mispronounces, or is it like publishers misspelling words so they know their material? And Simon is pronounced "Garrett".
Usenet FTW. I still use it. 😛
It's pronounced wacky. Any idiot can edit content on it and claim to be related to a celeb, then print it out and show it to security backstage and they'll believe it, like one dude did.
Cuomo == "Kwo-Mo".
You should do one on Wadsworth's constant
I prefer to call it "reductio ad hitlerum."
Most forums I post or read, replace Nazi references with the words "godwins law" with a hyperlink to the wiki page for clarification
Lol like when the democrats compared Mr. Trump to hitler for wanting to make america great.. dum dums
Godwin's Law is literally worse than Hitler.
/s
gawd, this guy is like some kinda argument nazi… maybe even the argument hitler!
"You are literally Harry Truman."
Hitler was a vegetarian so vegetarians are literaly Hitler
#trufacts
Hey Simon, I have a question-
Do you speak with the "Received Pronunciation" accent? I feel like I hear it, but I want to be sure
Godwin's Law – Todays Millennials = SJW & Extreme Liberals
I've been called a fascist and a nazi online because I disagreed with someone's statement that they had the right to touch women in public *shrug*.
Let's combine two recent videos: what is history's first recorded meme?!
Shortly after Godwin's law spread around the globe he invaded Most of Europe, putting all his critics in camps, no one could compare him to late 30's and 40's groups or individuals without drawing it Twitter ridicule, democratic political death.
There was absolutely no reason at all to use the example that you used about the Governor of New York except as a plug for your own political bias. No example was needed for any reasonable person.
So, never forget but stop bringing it up…
I swear, I hate English pronunciation sometimes. Maybe it's because I am ESL, but when he explained how 'wiki' is pronounced I just heard him basically repeat the same darn word.
Godwin was an idiot. Hitler and the Nazis did a lot if bad stuff, and it isn't the Holocaust only. Godwin's law gets quoted by idiots only. The provability of everything approaches one in any discussion. That's why there is nothing stupider than Gowin's Law.
I've been waiting years to see how long it would take someone to do a video on this
"telephone computer network" probably FIDO, a very popular BBS network preceeding the internet.
After watching this video I gathered in sum that "The Swastika" lives forever.
No, Godwin has not changed anything, his findings are being confirmed in every Internet discussion around the world on a daily basis.
Republicunts call Hillary Clinton Hitlery and democrats, SJW and other snowflakes call Trump a Nazi. While both persons have the spite and respect of ther hater/followers, neither of them has installed concentration camps, invaded Poland or set Russia on fire…. Yet! (See what I did there?)
You need to do a video on Carl Emil Pettersson
Trust me.. Its worth it. Swedish sailor that washed ashore and was married to a cannibals daughter and later became their king.
Ok, so liberals have lost the argument.
The commentator is fluid, has constant energy and knows what the fuck he is talking about. Which eliminated about 75% of the subjects that are revealed on UTube.
Can you do a video on Operation Redwings?
If Hitler had won the war, this world would be a far, far better place to live and we wouldn't be living in fear of Muslim terrorists or over crowding by other spongers.
Smashing people with a aluminum baseball bat is not a thoughtful and intelligent debate. Some people need to be reminded of this.