{"id":9641,"date":"2006-05-19T10:54:43","date_gmt":"2006-05-19T17:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/05\/19\/does-godwins-law-apply-here.html"},"modified":"2006-05-19T10:54:43","modified_gmt":"2006-05-19T17:54:43","slug":"does_godwins_la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/05\/19\/does_godwins_la.html","title":{"rendered":"Does Godwin’s Law apply here?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the recent discussion of Godwin’s Law<\/a>, the suggestion was made that it’s valid to compare someone to Nazis when you’re actually comparing them to things the Nazis actually did. Sort of like<\/a> …<\/p>\n

Iranian expatriates living in Canada yesterday confirmed reports that the Iranian parliament, called the Islamic Majlis, passed a law this week setting a dress code for all Iranians, requiring them to wear almost identical “standard Islamic garments.”<\/p>\n

The law, which must still be approved by Iran’s “Supreme Guide” Ali Khamenehi before being put into effect, also establishes special insignia to be worn by non-Muslims.<\/p>\n

Iran’s roughly 25,000 Jews would have to sew a yellow strip of cloth on the front of their clothes, while Christians would wear red badges and Zoroastrians would be forced to wear blue cloth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Actually, the “wearing standard Islamic garments” sounds a lot like the old Mao days in China. But, yeah, religious badges … I’m sure there are some EU nations that might have some of those in storage somewhere, willing to sell cheap …<\/p>\n

(via J-Walk<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the recent discussion of Godwin’s Law, the suggestion was made that it’s valid to compare someone to Nazis when you’re actually comparing them to things the Nazis actually did….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,27,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-religion","category-zt-pc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130180,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/12\/can-i-ask-for-an-amendment-of-godwins-law.html","url_meta":{"origin":9641,"position":0},"title":"Can I ask for an amendment of Godwin's Law?","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 12-Mar-16 7:44am","format":false,"excerpt":"While, formally, Godwin's Law is that \"As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1,\" more popularly it means that anyone who actually makes that comparison loses the discussion \/ argument.Can we please add the phrase \"ram down our throats\" to phrases\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9654,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/05\/17\/civility.html","url_meta":{"origin":9641,"position":1},"title":"Civility","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 17-May-06 6:28pm","format":false,"excerpt":"DOF has a pair of posts on (if I may paraphrase) how overrated civility and polite discourse sometimes are, and how sometimes Godwin's Law is counterproductive to useful discussion. 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