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Mike Godwin Interviewed

Posted by samzenpus on from the nationalsozialistische-deutsche-arbeiterpartei dept.

theshowmecanuck writes CBC Radio in Canada has just posted an interview with Mike Godwin, the originator of the famous Godwin's Law. Unbelievably it comes after a week where Canadian politicians started flinging the H word at each other. Part of the interview reads: "I really wanted people not to make silly or glib comparisons that really show no awareness of history... and I think that to that extent Godwin's Law has succeeded."

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  1. Re:OK, but... by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    many cases of Hitler references trivialize the almost inconceivable magnitude of the evil of the 3rd reich.

    There is nothing that Hitler did that wasn't also done in the colonial empires of Britain, France, and even America (which used concentration camps, torture, and wholesale massacres to subjugate and pacify the Philippines). What makes Hitler different, is that he did it to white people.