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host · 08-23-2006, 09:15 PM

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Originally Posted by magictoy

......Lesson Plan #2: Come dressed as Hitler, and deliver some of his more "emotion-evoking" rhetoric. None of the students will ever forget.

Smacks of bigotry? Of course. But if flag-burning is protected speech, so are the above.

Someone needs to get a grip, but it isn't the people protesting the grossly inappropriate behavior of the flag burner.

Now, you've done it.....

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
Godwin's LaW -

.....As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.....

.....Corollaries and usage

There is a tradition in many newsgroups and other Internet discussion forums that once such a comparison is made, the thread is finished and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically "lost" whatever debate was in progress. This principle is itself frequently (though perhaps incorrectly) referred to as Godwin's Law.