The Nazis, Hitler, The Internet, and Godwin’s Law




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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

Image Credit:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WM2007_Session_901_Mike_Godwin.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dawkins-Memes.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1973-023-19,_Frankreich,_G%C3%BCnther_v._Kluge,_Adolf_Hitler.jpg
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
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ward_Cunningham_in_San_Francisco.jpg

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43 responses to “The Nazis, Hitler, The Internet, and Godwin’s Law”

  1. "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

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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?)

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