I didn’t like the whole Godwin thought terminating cliche (that ended up turning Nazi comparisons into thought terminating cliches) back when I first saw it but in hindsight it’s particularly stupid and arrogant, like that thing that did significant damage to the world was just a once-off fluke and anyone who compares anything else to it just loses for assuming something like that could ever happen again.
Though part of me is already sure that it was pushed by people who already wanted a new Nazi wave. But I do wonder why it was that their bandwagon was jumped on rather than a bandwagon of telling them to stfu and that “any comparison to nazis is invalid” was never logical in the first place.
I didn’t like the whole Godwin thought terminating cliche (that ended up turning Nazi comparisons into thought terminating cliches) back when I first saw it but in hindsight it’s particularly stupid and arrogant, like that thing that did significant damage to the world was just a once-off fluke and anyone who compares anything else to it just loses for assuming something like that could ever happen again.
Though part of me is already sure that it was pushed by people who already wanted a new Nazi wave. But I do wonder why it was that their bandwagon was jumped on rather than a bandwagon of telling them to stfu and that “any comparison to nazis is invalid” was never logical in the first place.