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margin: 0 0 0.5em 0.5em; text-align:left; border: 1px solid #009761; width:175px;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; text-align:center; color:White; background-color:#009761"><b>Cogito ergo sum</b><br /><a href="/wiki/Logic" title="Logic"><font size="4" color="White"><b>Logic and rhetoric</b></font></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFFFFF;" align="center"><a href="/wiki/Category:Logic" title="Category:Logic"><img alt="Icon logic.svg" src="/w/images/thumb/9/99/Icon_logic.svg/100px-Icon_logic.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="100" srcset="/w/images/thumb/9/99/Icon_logic.svg/150px-Icon_logic.svg.png 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/9/99/Icon_logic.svg/200px-Icon_logic.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200" /></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#009761; text-align:center;"><b>Key articles</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#FFFFFF;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Logical_fallacy" title="Logical fallacy">Logical fallacy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syllogism" title="Syllogism">Syllogism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Argument" title="Argument">Argument</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#009761; text-align:center;"><b>General logic</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#FFFFFF;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/No_True_Scotsman" title="No True Scotsman">No True Scotsman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Point_refuted_a_thousand_times" title="Point refuted a thousand times">Point refuted a thousand times</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fallacy_of_accent" title="Fallacy of accent">Fallacy of accent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas_sharpshooter_fallacy" title="Texas sharpshooter fallacy">Texas sharpshooter fallacy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Word_magic" title="Word magic">Word magic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty,_and_doubt" title="Fear, uncertainty, and doubt">Fear, uncertainty, and doubt</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#009761; text-align:center;"><b>Bad logic</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#FFFFFF;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Straw_man" title="Straw man">Straw man</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deepity" title="Deepity">Deepity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ultracrepidarianism" title="Ultracrepidarianism">Ultracrepidarianism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Post-designation" title="Post-designation">Post-designation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toupee_fallacy" title="Toupee fallacy">Toupee fallacy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_common_sense" title="Appeal to common sense">Appeal to common sense</a></li></ul> <div class="vte plainlinks" style="font-size:smaller; text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Template:Logicnav" title="Template:Logicnav">v</a> - <a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Logicnav" title="Template talk:Logicnav">t</a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Logicnav&action=edit">e</a></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span> I wonder if there will come a time when Nazis will become primarily known for the ridiculous analogies people make using them and not genocide.</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—rupucis<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Nazi analogies</b> are <a href="/wiki/Fallacy" class="mw-redirect" title="Fallacy">fallacies</a> that use the extremely negative perception that <a href="/wiki/Hitler" class="mw-redirect" title="Hitler">Hitler</a> and <a href="/wiki/National_Socialism" class="mw-redirect" title="National Socialism">National Socialism</a> (Nazism) have in the modern world to boost someone's opinions. </p> <ul><li><i><b>Reductio ad Hitlerum</b></i> is, basically, the premise that "everything Hitler supported must be bad and everything Hitler was against must be good". Hitler's opinions serve as the sole parameter to judge something's desirability or morality. The reason this is idiotic is because Hitler wore clothes, so by this logic wearing clothes makes one a <a href="/wiki/Nazi" class="mw-redirect" title="Nazi">Nazi</a>. He was also a strong supporter of animal rights making everybody who DOESN'T abuse their pets Nazis as well.</li> <li><b>Godwin’s Law</b>, itself a response to <i>reductio ad Hitlerum</i>, asserts that the longer an online discussion grows, the greater are the odds of someone mentioning Hitler or the Nazis. It is something one can verify by oneself and that demonstrates how common such analogies are. Godwin only heard of Leo Strauss' coining of the fallacy 4 decades after he himself had proposed it.<sup id="cite_ref-godwin_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-godwin-2">[2]</a></sup></li></ul> <p>Those are also known by other names, such as <i><b>argumentum ad Nazium</b></i> (a pun on <i><a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_nauseam" title="Argumentum ad nauseam">argumentum ad nauseam</a></i>) or "playing the Hitler/Nazi Card". </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Origins"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Origins</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#How_it_works"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">How it works</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#When_the_analogy_is_applicable"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">When the analogy is applicable</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#Schizofascism"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Schizofascism</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#Stormfront_and_other_corollaries"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Stormfront and other corollaries</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#Other_versions"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Other versions</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="#Pre-Nazism"><span class="tocnumber">6.1</span> <span class="toctext">Pre-Nazism</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="#Evil_Nazi_things:_Reductio_ad_Hitlerum_exempla"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">Evil Nazi things: <i>Reductio ad Hitlerum exempla</i></span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="#Overlap_with_Holocaust_denial"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">Overlap with Holocaust denial</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10"><a href="#Criticisms"><span class="tocnumber">9</span> <span class="toctext">Criticisms</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11"><a href="#Similar_analogies"><span class="tocnumber">10</span> <span class="toctext">Similar analogies</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12"><a href="#The_opposite"><span class="tocnumber">11</span> <span class="toctext">The opposite</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">12</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14"><a href="#Want_to_read_this_in_another_language.3F"><span class="tocnumber">12.1</span> <span class="toctext">Want to read this in another language?</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">13</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16"><a href="#Notes"><span class="tocnumber">14</span> <span class="toctext">Notes</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">15</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Origins">Origins</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazi_analogies&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Origins">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="thumb tleft"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:167px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Mike_Godwin_-_VOA_-_September_2017-square-bluebackground.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Mike_Godwin_-_VOA_-_September_2017-square-bluebackground.jpg/165px-Mike_Godwin_-_VOA_-_September_2017-square-bluebackground.jpg" decoding="async" width="165" height="165" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Mike_Godwin_-_VOA_-_September_2017-square-bluebackground.jpg/248px-Mike_Godwin_-_VOA_-_September_2017-square-bluebackground.jpg 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Mike_Godwin_-_VOA_-_September_2017-square-bluebackground.jpg/330px-Mike_Godwin_-_VOA_-_September_2017-square-bluebackground.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2058" data-file-height="2058" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Mike_Godwin_-_VOA_-_September_2017-square-bluebackground.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Mike Godwin in 2017</div></div></div> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>‘Who was it that said: "Whenver<small><sup>[<span title="short for: sic erat scriptum ('thus was it written'), meaning that it is intentionally spelled here like it was originally transcribed or translated from" style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><i>sic</i></span>]</sup></small> somebody starts mentioning Nazis on <a href="/wiki/Usenet" title="Usenet">USENET</a>, you know the discussion has gone on too long"?'.. I said it. Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies: As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—Michael Godwin in 1991, one of his earliest invocations<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i>Reductio ad Hitlerum</i> was coined in 1951 by <a href="/wiki/Neoconservative" class="mw-redirect" title="Neoconservative">neoconservative</a> progenitor <a href="/wiki/Leo_Strauss" class="mw-redirect" title="Leo Strauss">Leo Strauss</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup><sup class="reference" style="white-space:nowrap;">:42-43</sup> </p> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>Unfortunately, it does not go without saying that in our examination we must avoid the fallacy that the last decades has frequently been used as a substitute for the <i><a href="/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum" title="Reductio ad absurdum">reductio ad absurdum</a></i>: the <i>reductio ad Hitlerum</i>. A view that is not refuted by the fact that it happens to have been shared by Hitler.</div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>Godwin's Law was formulated by attorney Mike Godwin, former general counsel for the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikimedia Foundation</a>, in the 1990s, and states:<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a></sup> </p> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>As an online discussion grows longer, the <a href="/wiki/Probability" title="Probability">probability</a> of a comparison involving <a href="/wiki/Nazi" class="mw-redirect" title="Nazi">Nazis</a> or <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Hitler</a> approaches one.</div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="How_it_works">How it works</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazi_analogies&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: How it works">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Godwin.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/w/images/thumb/a/aa/Godwin.jpg/200px-Godwin.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="242" class="thumbimage" srcset="/w/images/thumb/a/aa/Godwin.jpg/300px-Godwin.jpg 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/a/aa/Godwin.jpg/400px-Godwin.jpg 2x" data-file-width="846" data-file-height="1024" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Godwin.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div><a href="/wiki/Jonanism" title="Jonanism"><i>Everyone I Don't Like is Hitler</i></a>: If only we hadn't all grown up with this book.</div></div></div> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>It's like Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, except there's just one degree, and Kevin Bacon is Hitler!</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—Lewis Black<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a></sup><sup class="reference" style="white-space:nowrap;">:105</sup></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>When a Hitler or Nazi comparison is made, it may be an <a href="/wiki/Extended_analogy" title="Extended analogy">extended analogy</a> fallacy.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a></sup> </p> <dl><dd><b>P1:</b> Hitler's <a href="/wiki/Final_solution" class="mw-redirect" title="Final solution">final solution</a> would have put an end to <a href="/wiki/Overpopulation" title="Overpopulation">overpopulation</a>.<br /></dd> <dd><b>P2:</b> Person X wants to use <a href="/wiki/Birth_control" title="Birth control">birth control</a> to solve the problem of overpopulation.<br /></dd> <dd><b>C:</b> Therefore person X is like Hitler.<br /></dd></dl> <p>Or it could be an <i><a href="/wiki/Ad_hominem" class="mw-redirect" title="Ad hominem">ad hominem</a></i> attack such as saying, "You are just like Hitler and therefore whatever you are arguing for is wrong," without having any reasoning behind how this conclusion was reached. </p><p>With the increase in the number of <a href="/wiki/Media" title="Media">media</a> for online discussion, Godwin's Law is now applied to any online discussion — be they mailing lists, message boards, forums, chat rooms, blog comment threads, or <a href="/wiki/Wiki" title="Wiki">wiki</a> talk pages. </p><p>Traditionally in many <a href="/wiki/Internet" title="Internet">Internet</a> discussion forums, it is the rule that once such a comparison is made, the discussion is effectively finished and whoever mentioned Hitler or the Nazis has <a href="/wiki/Cohen%27s_Law" class="mw-redirect" title="Cohen's Law">automatically lost the debate</a>, though it is considered sort-of acceptable if one immediately says "Pardon me for invoking Godwin's Law." The blogosphere has only heightened the prevalence of Godwin's Law, with Nazi references being dropped across the <a href="/wiki/Political_spectrum" title="Political spectrum">political spectrum</a>, such as the liberal <a href="/wiki/Daily_Kos" title="Daily Kos">Daily Kos</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Right-wing" class="mw-redirect" title="Right-wing">right-wing</a> <a href="/wiki/Religious" class="mw-redirect" title="Religious">religious</a> strongholds such as <a href="/wiki/Bill_Donohue" title="Bill Donohue">Bill Donohue</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Catholic_League_for_Religious_and_Civil_Rights" title="Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights">Catholic League</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Intelligent_design" title="Intelligent design">intelligent design</a> advocates like the <a href="/wiki/Discovery_Institute" title="Discovery Institute">Discovery Institute</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a></sup> </p><p>Compared to other known blog-based laws, namely <a href="/wiki/Poe%27s_Law" title="Poe's Law">Poe's Law</a>, Godwin's Law is quite well known in more mainstream areas.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a></sup> Just to prove it, the law even has its <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_Law" class="extiw" title="wp:Godwin's Law" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Godwin's Law">own Wikipedia article</span></a>.<sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> In 2012, it was added to the Oxford Dictionary,<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a></sup> which means that in 500 years' time, it will be reviewed by completely mystified college arts majors. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="When_the_analogy_is_applicable">When the analogy is applicable</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazi_analogies&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: When the analogy is applicable">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Godwin's Law does not dispute the validity or otherwise of references or comparison to Hitler or the Nazis. As such a comparison or reference may sometimes be appropriate in a discussion, Godwin has argued that overuse of the Nazi comparison should be avoided as it waters down the impact of any valid usage. In its purest sense, the rule has more to do with <i>completely losing one's sense of proportion</i> rather than just mentioning Nazis specifically.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ars_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ars-15">[15]</a></sup> The law was initiated as a counter-<a href="/wiki/Meme" title="Meme">meme</a> to flippant comparisons to the Nazis, rather than to invoke a complete ban on comparisons. As Godwin himself wrote in 2008:<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a></sup> </p> <blockquote class="letter" style="width:auto; background:#f8f8ff; border:1px solid #C9C9CF;"> <p>When I saw the photographs from <a href="/wiki/Abu_Ghraib" title="Abu Ghraib">Abu Ghraib</a>, for example, I understood instantly the connection between the humiliations inflicted there and the ones the Nazis imposed upon death camp inmates — but I am the one person in the world least able to draw attention to that valid comparison. </p> </blockquote> <p>Additionally, Godwin made an appearance in <a href="/wiki/Glenn_Greenwald" title="Glenn Greenwald">Glenn Greenwald</a>'s <i>Salon</i> comments section in 2010 to confirm, as Greenwald put it in a column titled <em>The odiousness of the distorted Godwin's Law</em>:<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a></sup> </p> <blockquote class="letter" style="width:auto; background:#f8f8ff; border:1px solid #C9C9CF;"> <p>Godwin himself appears in comments (authenticity confirmed via email) to explain that his "law" sought to discourage frivolous, but not substantive, Nazi analogies and comparisons. </p> </blockquote> <p>Godwin said in 2017 that it's OK to call the <a href="/wiki/Alt-right" title="Alt-right">alt-right</a> Nazis, because many of them use Nazi symbols and express support for Nazi <a href="/wiki/Ideology" title="Ideology">ideology</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-indy2017_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-indy2017-18">[18]</a></sup> He wrote in 2016:<sup id="cite_ref-indy2017_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-indy2017-18">[18]</a></sup> </p> <blockquote class="letter" style="width:auto; background:#f8f8ff; border:1px solid #C9C9CF;"> <p>To be clear: I don't personally believe all <a href="/wiki/Rational" class="mw-redirect" title="Rational">rational</a> discourse has ended when Nazis or the <a href="/wiki/Holocaust" title="Holocaust">Holocaust</a> are invoked. … But I'm pleased that people still use Godwin's Law to force one another to argue more thoughtfully. </p> </blockquote> <p>In 2023, Godwin also said <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Trump</a> is acting like Hitler:<sup id="cite_ref-godwin_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-godwin-2">[2]</a></sup> </p> <blockquote class="letter" style="width:auto; background:#f8f8ff; border:1px solid #C9C9CF;"> <p>But when people draw parallels between Donald Trump's <a href="/wiki/2024_U.S._presidential_election" class="mw-redirect" title="2024 U.S. presidential election">2024 candidacy</a> and Hitler's progression from <a href="/wiki/Fringe" title="Fringe">fringe</a> figure to Great Dictator, we aren’t joking. Those of us who hope to preserve our <a href="/wiki/Democratic" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratic">democratic</a> institutions need to underscore the resemblance before we enter the twilight of <a href="/wiki/American" class="mw-redirect" title="American">American</a> democracy. </p> </blockquote> <p><a href="/wiki/Historian" class="mw-redirect" title="Historian">Historian</a> Timothy Snyder goes further, writing that when there is a <a href="/wiki/Taboo" title="Taboo">taboo</a> on comparing someone to Hitler who is actually acting like Hitler (Trump and <a href="/wiki/J._D._Vance" title="J. D. Vance">J. D. Vance</a>), it becomes a shield for the perpetrator, such that "…the more Trump resembles Hitler, the safer the man is from criticism on this point."<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Schizofascism">Schizofascism</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazi_analogies&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Schizofascism">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Snyder has coined the word 'schizofascism' to refer to actual fascists who make Nazi analogies or fascist accusations against other people.<sup id="cite_ref-unfreedom_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-unfreedom-20">[20]</a></sup><sup class="reference" style="white-space:nowrap;">:145</sup> As an example, fascist <a href="/wiki/Russian" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian">Russian</a> politician <a href="/wiki/Aleksandr_Dugin" title="Aleksandr Dugin">Aleksandr Dugin</a> has blamed Ukrainian <a href="/wiki/Jews" class="mw-redirect" title="Jews">Jews</a> for the Holocaust,<sup id="cite_ref-unfreedom_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-unfreedom-20">[20]</a></sup><sup class="reference" style="white-space:nowrap;">:145</sup> which is just literally <a href="/wiki/Blaming_the_victim" title="Blaming the victim">adding insult to injury</a>. </p><p>Russian <a href="/wiki/Propaganda" title="Propaganda">propaganda</a> has used schizofascism extensively since the 2014 invasion of Crimea, the Russian-sponsored coup attempts in <a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a>, and the Russian-backed insurrection in eastern Ukraine.<sup id="cite_ref-unfreedom_20-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-unfreedom-20">[20]</a></sup><sup class="reference" style="white-space:nowrap;">:145-148</sup> During this time, Russian President <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</a>, head of a regime labeled as crypto-fascist,<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a></sup> defined Ukrainian opponents of Russian incursions as fascists.<sup id="cite_ref-unfreedom_20-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-unfreedom-20">[20]</a></sup><sup class="reference" style="white-space:nowrap;">:147</sup> In February 2022, Putin called for the "de-nazification" of Ukraine,<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a></sup> just prior to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine (<a href="/wiki/Euphemism" title="Euphemism">euphemistically</a>-called "special military operation") in March 2022, in which Putin gave de-nazification as a justification for his war of aggression, despite Ukraine's <a href="/wiki/Democracy" title="Democracy">democratically</a>-elected president (<a href="/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy" title="Volodymyr Zelenskyy">Volodymyr Zelenskyy</a>) being ethnically Jewish.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a></sup> Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov went further stating, "I could be wrong, but Hitler also had Jewish blood.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24">[note 1]</a></sup> [That Zelensky is Jewish] means absolutely nothing. <a href="/wiki/Argument_from_authority" title="Argument from authority">Wise Jewish people</a> say that <a href="/wiki/Internalized_discrimination" class="mw-redirect" title="Internalized discrimination">the most ardent anti-Semites are usually Jews</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25">[24]</a></sup> </p><p>Further, writer and <a href="/wiki/Antisemite" class="mw-redirect" title="Antisemite">antisemite</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Prokhanov" class="extiw" title="wp:Alexander Prokhanov" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Alexander Prokhanov">Alexander Prokhanov</span></a><sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> compared Russia's failed 2014 coup in Odessa, Ukraine to the Holocaust.<sup id="cite_ref-unfreedom_20-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-unfreedom-20">[20]</a></sup><sup class="reference" style="white-space:nowrap;">:170,184-185</sup> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Zaldostanov" class="extiw" title="wp:Alexander Zaldostanov" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Alexander Zaldostanov">Alexander Zaldostanov</span></a>,<sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> leader of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Wolves" class="extiw" title="wp:Night Wolves" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Night Wolves">Night Wolves</span></a><sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> motorcycle-gang, made similar pronouncements at the same rally as Prokhanov.<sup id="cite_ref-unfreedom_20-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-unfreedom-20">[20]</a></sup><sup class="reference" style="white-space:nowrap;">:184-186</sup> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Antyufeyev" class="extiw" title="wp:Vladimir Antyufeyev" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Vladimir Antyufeyev">Vladimir Antyufeyev</span></a>,<sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> who has been in leadership positions in self-declared fascistic <a href="/wiki/Puppet_state" class="mw-redirect" title="Puppet state">puppet-states</a> within <a href="/wiki/Moldova" title="Moldova">Moldova</a> (<a href="/wiki/Transnistria" title="Transnistria">Transnistria</a>, founded in 1990/1991) and within Ukraine (<a href="/wiki/Donetsk_People%27s_Republic" class="mw-redirect" title="Donetsk People's Republic">Donetsk People's Republic</a>, founded in 2014), claimed that Russia was at war with fascists who were aligned with an international <a href="/wiki/Freemason" title="Freemason">Freemason</a> conspiracy.<sup id="cite_ref-unfreedom_20-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-unfreedom-20">[20]</a></sup><sup class="reference" style="white-space:nowrap;">:175</sup> </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginni_Thomas" class="extiw" title="wp:Ginni Thomas" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Ginni Thomas">Ginni Thomas</span></a>,<sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> wife of <a href="/wiki/US_Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="US Supreme Court">US Supreme Court</a> Justice <a href="/wiki/Clarence_Thomas" title="Clarence Thomas">Clarence Thomas</a>, while herself plotting to overturn a democratic election,<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26">[25]</a></sup> referred to the "fascist left"<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27">[note 2]</a></sup> and "<a href="/wiki/Transsexual" class="mw-redirect" title="Transsexual">transsexual</a> fascists".<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28">[26]</a></sup> </p><p>Trump has also utilized schizofascism multiple times, referring to his political opponents as fascists despite being a fascist himself by his actions and <a href="/wiki/Rhetoric" title="Rhetoric">rhetoric</a> (including cozying up to actual fascists).<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29">[27]</a></sup> Another level of <a href="/wiki/Irony" title="Irony">irony</a> is that he has claimed that the <a href="/wiki/Far-right" class="mw-redirect" title="Far-right">far-right</a> is not a major issue (yet fascism is far-right by its very nature) and instead refers to leftists as fascists.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30">[28]</a></sup> </p><p>"Schizofascism is an example of what <a href="/wiki/Philosopher" class="mw-redirect" title="Philosopher">philosopher</a> Jason Stanley calls 'undermining propaganda': using a concept to destroy that concept. Here anti-fascism is being used to destroy anti-fascism."<sup id="cite_ref-unfreedom_20-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-unfreedom-20">[20]</a></sup><sup class="reference" style="white-space:nowrap;">:315-316</sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31">[29]</a></sup> The intent of the undermining propaganda is generally in the furtherance of <a href="/wiki/Fake_news" title="Fake news">fake news</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32">[30]</a></sup><sup class="reference" style="white-space:nowrap;">:203</sup> including but not limited to <a href="/wiki/Poisoning_the_well" title="Poisoning the well">attempts to stain the credibility of one's opponents</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ideological_patrolling" title="Ideological patrolling">maintaining the ideological purity of one's followers</a>. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Stormfront_and_other_corollaries">Stormfront and other corollaries</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazi_analogies&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Stormfront and other corollaries">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>This is exactly how <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">Nazi Germany</a> was started! A bunch of layabouts with nothing better to do than to cause trouble!</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—John Cleese as Basil Fawlty<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33">[31]</a></sup></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>A number of corollaries have been proposed since the introduction of Godwin's Law. </p><p>In a hilarious instance of cosmic symmetry, a similar law applies to <a href="/wiki/Neo-Nazi" class="mw-redirect" title="Neo-Nazi">neo-Nazi</a> boards such as <a href="/wiki/Stormfront" title="Stormfront">Stormfront</a>: as the discussion grows longer, the probability of someone calling their opponent a <a href="/wiki/Jew" class="mw-redirect" title="Jew">Jew</a> approaches one. (For another version, replace Stormfront with <a href="/wiki/Conservapedia" title="Conservapedia">Conservapedia</a> and Jew with <a href="/wiki/Liberal" class="mw-redirect" title="Liberal">liberal</a>.) </p><p>Another example of a corollary, and an early example, is called "Sircar's Corollary," which is: <i>"If the Usenet discussion touches on <a href="/wiki/Homosexuality" title="Homosexuality">homosexuality</a> or <a href="/wiki/Heinlein" class="mw-redirect" title="Heinlein">Heinlein</a>, Nazis or Hitler are mentioned within three days.”'</i><sup id="cite_ref-Ars_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ars-15">[15]</a></sup> </p><p>Another corollary was proposed by "Buddy Larson" in the comments to a post by the <a href="/wiki/Libertarian" class="mw-redirect" title="Libertarian">libertarian</a> Volokh Conspiracy blog (alleging that <a href="/wiki/Gun_control" title="Gun control">gun control</a> caused <a href="/wiki/Pogrom" title="Pogrom">Kristallnacht</a>) in November 2010:<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34">[32]</a></sup> </p> <blockquote class="letter" style="width:auto; background:#f8f8ff; border:1px solid #C9C9CF;"> <p>As an online discussion of an original post concerning Nazis or Hitler grows, the probability of observing a laboured and unwarranted retreat or appeal to Godwin's Law (of laboured, unwarranted retreat to Nazi or Hitler references) approaches one. </p> </blockquote> <p>A corollary for <a href="/wiki/Feminist" class="mw-redirect" title="Feminist">feminists</a> is: </p> <blockquote class="letter" style="width:auto; background:#f8f8ff; border:1px solid #C9C9CF;"> <p>As an online discussion about <a href="/wiki/Sexism" title="Sexism">sexism</a> continues, the probability of a woman who speaks out being called a <a href="/wiki/Feminazi" class="mw-redirect" title="Feminazi">feminazi</a> approaches 1.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35">[33]</a></sup> </p> </blockquote> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Other_versions">Other versions</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazi_analogies&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Other versions">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:167px;"><a href="/wiki/File:1984-Big-Brother.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/1984-Big-Brother.jpg/165px-1984-Big-Brother.jpg" decoding="async" width="165" height="236" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/1984-Big-Brother.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="257" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:1984-Big-Brother.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Frederic Guimont's portrayal of Big Brother, based on a 1932 election poster for Hitler</div></div></div> <p>A number of different <a href="/wiki/Internet_laws" class="mw-redirect" title="Internet laws">Internet laws</a> have been proposed which basically mirror Godwin. <b>Arken's Law</b> states:<sup id="cite_ref-arken_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-arken-36">[34]</a></sup> </p> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>A discussion is over when present society is compared to <a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a>'s Oceania in the book <i><a href="/wiki/1984" class="mw-redirect" title="1984">1984</a></i>.</div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>The exact history of Arken's Law is debatable,<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37">[note 3]</a></sup> but it is claimed that Arken's Law has its roots in the days of Web 1.0 and earlier (such as Usenet). Any accusations of <a href="/wiki/Big_Brother" class="mw-redirect" title="Big Brother">Big Brotherism</a>, utilizing <a href="/wiki/Newspeak" class="mw-redirect" title="Newspeak">newspeak</a>, practicing <a href="/wiki/Doublethink" class="mw-redirect" title="Doublethink">doublethink</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thought_Police" class="mw-redirect" title="Thought Police">thought policing</a>, sending updates down the <a href="/wiki/Memory_hole" class="mw-redirect" title="Memory hole">memory hole</a>, or belonging to the Anti-Sex League would all be invocations of Arken's Law. </p><p>Researchers from the University College London attempted to formulate <i>reductio ad Hitlerum</i> into a <a href="/wiki/Bayesian" title="Bayesian">Bayesian</a> framework, presenting <a href="/wiki/Evidence" title="Evidence">evidence</a> that this is pretty much exactly how people processed the argument:<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38">[35]</a></sup> </p> <center><span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle P(good|Hitler)={\frac {P(good)P(Hitler|good)}{P(Hitler)}}}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>P</mi> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mi>g</mi> <mi>o</mi> <mi>o</mi> <mi>d</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo stretchy="false">|</mo> </mrow> <mi>H</mi> <mi>i</mi> <mi>t</mi> <mi>l</mi> <mi>e</mi> <mi>r</mi> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <mo>=</mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mfrac> <mrow> <mi>P</mi> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mi>g</mi> <mi>o</mi> <mi>o</mi> <mi>d</mi> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <mi>P</mi> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mi>H</mi> <mi>i</mi> <mi>t</mi> <mi>l</mi> <mi>e</mi> <mi>r</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo stretchy="false">|</mo> </mrow> <mi>g</mi> <mi>o</mi> <mi>o</mi> <mi>d</mi> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> </mrow> <mrow> <mi>P</mi> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mi>H</mi> <mi>i</mi> <mi>t</mi> <mi>l</mi> <mi>e</mi> <mi>r</mi> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> </mrow> </mfrac> </mrow> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle P(good|Hitler)={\frac {P(good)P(Hitler|good)}{P(Hitler)}}}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/1002aad32611154160e1d8244f29f22a03ad6cf4" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -2.671ex; width:42.716ex; height:6.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle P(good|Hitler)={\frac {P(good)P(Hitler|good)}{P(Hitler)}}}"/></span></center> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Pre-Nazism">Pre-Nazism</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazi_analogies&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Pre-Nazism">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p>Before Hitler was a thing, the typical point of comparison for worst person in the world appears to have been the <a href="/wiki/Pharaoh" class="mw-redirect" title="Pharaoh">Pharaoh</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Biblical" class="mw-redirect" title="Biblical">Biblical</a> book of <a href="/wiki/Exodus" class="mw-redirect" title="Exodus">Exodus</a> (the pharaoh's identity is uncertain, and he may be fictional, which makes it a weaker rhetorical comparison), although the likes of <a href="/wiki/Judas_Iscariot" title="Judas Iscariot">Judas Iscariot</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pontius_Pilate" title="Pontius Pilate">Pontius Pilate</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell" class="mw-redirect" title="Oliver Cromwell">Oliver Cromwell</a> (for the <a href="/wiki/Irish" class="mw-redirect" title="Irish">Irish</a>), <a href="/wiki/Napoleon_Bonaparte" title="Napoleon Bonaparte">Napoleon Bonaparte</a>, and King George III (for Americans), were occasional references.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39">[36]</a></sup> Calling something <a href="/wiki/Dark_Ages" class="mw-redirect" title="Dark Ages">medieval</a> also seemed to work. However, those don't seem to have been used in an earlier version of Godwin's Law, possibly because the internet did not exist. </p><p><span id="Evil_Nazi_things"></span> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Evil_Nazi_things:_Reductio_ad_Hitlerum_exempla">Evil Nazi things: <i>Reductio ad Hitlerum exempla</i></span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazi_analogies&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Evil Nazi things: Reductio ad Hitlerum exempla">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>The Nazis were eclectic and often self-contradictory (e.g. some were pro-<a href="/wiki/Fraktur" title="Fraktur">fraktur</a> font and some were anti-fraktur font). What follows is a list of things which, by the logic of <i>reductio ad Hitlerum</i>, at least some Nazis were in favor of and which someone later thought was therefore evil (or the converse things that Hitler hated which therefore someone thought was good): </p> <div class="div-col columns column-count column-count-2" style="-moz-column-count: 2; -webkit-column-count: 2; column-count: 2;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abortion" title="Abortion">Abortion</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Terri_Schiavo_case" title="Terri Schiavo case">Terri Schiavo case</a>: <a href="/wiki/Mike_Johnson" title="Mike Johnson">Mike Johnson</a>, "The prevailing judicial philosophy is no different than Hitler's. Because the life of an unborn child (or a disabled<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40">[note 4]</a></sup> Terri Schiavo, or the elderly or infirm) may be difficult or inconvenient or even costly to society now means it can be terminated. This disregard for life has been fostered by the courts. During business hours today, 4,500 innocent American children will be killed. It is a holocaust that has been repeated every day for 32 years, since 1973's <a href="/wiki/Roe_v._Wade" title="Roe v. Wade">Roe v. Wade</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41">[37]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42">[38]</a></sup></li> <li>Anti-<a href="/wiki/Smoking" class="mw-redirect" title="Smoking">smoking</a>: "Nicotine Nazis strike again"<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43">[39]</a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atheism" title="Atheism">Atheism</a>: <a href="/wiki/Pope" title="Pope">Pope</a> <a href="/wiki/Benedict_XVI" title="Benedict XVI">Benedict XVI</a>, "Even in our own lifetime, we can recall how Britain and her leaders stood against a Nazi tyranny that wished to eradicate God from society and denied our common humanity to many, especially the Jews, who were thought unfit to live. I also recall the regime’s attitude to Christian pastors and religious who spoke the truth in love, opposed the Nazis and paid for that opposition with their lives. As we reflect on the sobering lessons of the atheist extremism of the twentieth century, let us never forget how the exclusion of God, religion and virtue from public life leads ultimately to a truncated vision of man and of society and thus to a “reductive vision of the person and his destiny”."<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44">[40]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45">[41]</a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a>: <a href="/wiki/Boris_Johnson" title="Boris Johnson">Boris Johnson</a> on <a href="/wiki/Brexit" title="Brexit">Brexit</a>, "Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this out, and it ends tragically. The EU is an attempt to do this by different methods."<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46">[42]</a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Gerard_Batten" class="mw-redirect" title="Gerard Batten">Gerard Batten</a> of <a href="/wiki/UKIP" class="mw-redirect" title="UKIP">UKIP</a>, "But there is a closer link. In 1942 when the German’s still thought they were going to win the war they produced a report entitled the Europaische Wirtschafts Gemeinschaft – which translates as the European Economic Community."<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47">[43]</a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evolution" title="Evolution">Evolution</a> — see <a href="/wiki/Hitler_and_evolution" title="Hitler and evolution">Hitler and evolution</a>:<sup id="cite_ref-rennie_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rennie-48">[44]</a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Institute_for_Creation_Research" title="Institute for Creation Research">Institute for Creation Research</a>, "The Darwinian worldview was critical, not only in influencing the development of Nazism and communism, but also in the rise of the ruthless capitalists that flourished in the late 1800s and early 1900s."<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49">[45]</a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gun_control" title="Gun control">Gun control</a> — Neal Knox, regarding the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_Control_Act_of_1968" class="extiw" title="wp:Gun Control Act of 1968" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Gun Control Act of 1968">Gun Control Act of 1968</span></a><sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> sponsored by Senator Dodd, "But a person close to Dodd — who must remain nameless even today — told me at the time that Dodd was very upset by the reigstration bills and had told him: "'<i>That's a Nazi bill.</i>'"<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50">[note 5]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51">[46]</a></sup><sup class="reference" style="white-space:nowrap;">:286</sup> There was strict gun control during the Weimar Republic, but when the Nazis came to power, they loosened regulations for party members, but banned gun ownership for Jews and others considered undesirable.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52">[47]</a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Historical_revisionism" title="Historical revisionism">Historical revisionism</a> can enable <i>reductio ad Hitlerum</i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homosexuality" title="Homosexuality">Homosexuality</a> — there is a myth that <a href="/wiki/Nazism_and_homosexuality" title="Nazism and homosexuality">Nazis were pro-homosexual</a> because one of them, Ernst Röhm, was gay.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53">[48]</a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/Homophobe" class="mw-redirect" title="Homophobe">homophobe</a> <a href="/wiki/Dinesh_D%27Souza" title="Dinesh D'Souza">Dinesh D'Souza</a>'s revisionist film <i>Death of a Nation</i>, Hitler is not only portrayed as supporting or at least being indifferent to homosexuals, but also as being left-wing… somehow.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54">[49]</a></sup> In fact, the Nazis killed huge numbers of homosexuals, including Röhm himself.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Same-sex_marriage" title="Same-sex marriage">Same-sex marriage</a> — Patriarch Kirill, the head of the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Russian Orthodox Church</a>, compared the legalization of same-sex marriage to the laws of Nazi Germany, because in his view, both destroyed the traditional family.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55">[50]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56">[51]</a></sup> It's ironic because Nazi Germany defined a traditional family that Kirill would probably agree with, <i><a href="/wiki/Kinder,_K%C3%BCche,_Kirche" title="Kinder, Küche, Kirche">Kinder, Küche, Kirche</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Socialism" title="Socialism">Socialism</a> — you can't spell "national socialism" without "socialism",<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57">[52]</a></sup> although Hitler had the left-leaning Nazis, the Strasserites, purged in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives" class="extiw" title="wp:Night of the Long Knives" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Night of the Long Knives">Night of the Long Knives</span></a>.<sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> <a href="/wiki/Marjorie_Taylor_Greene" title="Marjorie Taylor Greene">Marjorie Taylor Greene</a> claimed that the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party" title="Democratic Party">Democratic Party</a> is "now a national socialist party" just like the "National Socialist German Workers’ Party".<sup id="cite_ref-solender_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-solender-58">[53]</a></sup></li> <li>Vaccine verification and <a href="/wiki/Face_masks" title="Face masks">face masks</a> during the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a>: Marjorie Taylor Greene said that they are "Nazi practices" similar to yellow stars forced upon Jews by Nazis.<sup id="cite_ref-solender_58-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-solender-58">[53]</a></sup></li> <li>Wealthy people: Billionaire <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Perkins" class="extiw" title="wp:Tom Perkins" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Tom Perkins">Tom Perkins</span></a><sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> complained to the <i><a href="/wiki/Wall_Street_Journal" title="Wall Street Journal">Wall Street Journal</a></i> that the <a href="/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street" title="Occupy Wall Street">Occupy movement</a> and the <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> are <a href="/wiki/Demonizing" class="mw-redirect" title="Demonizing">demonizing</a> rich people: "I would call attention to the parallels of Nazi Germany to its war on its 'one percent,' namely its Jews, to the progressive war on the American one percent, namely the 'rich.' From the Occupy movement to the demonization of the rich embedded in virtually every word of our local newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, I perceive a rising tide of hatred of the successful one percent."<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59">[54]</a></sup></li></ul></div> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:167px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Anti-Gay-Protester_Boston_2007.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Anti-Gay-Protester_Boston_2007.jpg/165px-Anti-Gay-Protester_Boston_2007.jpg" decoding="async" width="165" height="211" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Anti-Gay-Protester_Boston_2007.jpg/248px-Anti-Gay-Protester_Boston_2007.jpg 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Anti-Gay-Protester_Boston_2007.jpg/330px-Anti-Gay-Protester_Boston_2007.jpg 2x" data-file-width="677" data-file-height="867" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Anti-Gay-Protester_Boston_2007.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Making one of these types analogies can make a person look really stupid.</div></div></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Jonah_Goldberg" title="Jonah Goldberg">Jonah Goldberg</a> (yes, <a href="/wiki/Jonanism" title="Jonanism">that Jonah Goldberg</a>) in his book <i>Liberal Fascism</i> likely reached maximum <i>reductio ad Hitlerum</i> in a single paragraph, hitting so many topics at once that one could call him "<i>Der Führer</i>" of <i>reductio ad Hitlerum</i> (but one shouldn't):<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60">[55]</a></sup><sup class="reference" style="white-space:nowrap;">:19</sup> </p> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>Or consider the explosion of health and <a href="/wiki/New_Age" title="New Age">New Age</a> crusades in recent years, from the war on smoking, to the obsession with <a href="/wiki/Animal_rights" title="Animal rights">animal rights</a>, to the sanctification of <a href="/wiki/Organic_food" title="Organic food">organic foods</a>. No one disputes that these fads are a product of the cultural and political <a href="/wiki/Left" class="mw-redirect" title="Left">left</a>. But few are willing to grapple with the fact that we've seen this sort of thing before. <a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Himmler" title="Heinrich Himmler">Heinrich Himmler</a> was a certified animal rights activist and aggressive promoter of "<a href="/wiki/Naturopathy" title="Naturopathy">natural healing</a>." <a href="/wiki/Rudolf_Hess" title="Rudolf Hess">Rudolf Hess</a>, Hitler's deputy, championed <a href="/wiki/Homeopathy" title="Homeopathy">homeopathy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Herbal_medicine" class="mw-redirect" title="Herbal medicine">herbal medicines</a>. Hitler and his advisers dedicated hours of their time to discussions of the need to move the entire nation to <a href="/wiki/Vegetarianism" title="Vegetarianism">vegetarianism</a> as a response to the unhealthiness promoted by <a href="/wiki/Capitalism" title="Capitalism">capitalism</a>. <a href="/wiki/Concentration_camp" title="Concentration camp">Dachau</a> hosted the world's largest <a href="/wiki/Alternative_medicine" title="Alternative medicine">alternative and organic medicine</a> research lab and produced its own <a href="/wiki/Raw_honey" title="Raw honey">organic honey</a>.</div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Overlap_with_Holocaust_denial">Overlap with Holocaust denial</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazi_analogies&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Overlap with Holocaust denial">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:167px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Del_Bigtree.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/w/images/thumb/1/12/Del_Bigtree.jpg/165px-Del_Bigtree.jpg" decoding="async" width="165" height="208" class="thumbimage" srcset="/w/images/thumb/1/12/Del_Bigtree.jpg/248px-Del_Bigtree.jpg 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/1/12/Del_Bigtree.jpg/330px-Del_Bigtree.jpg 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="946" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Del_Bigtree.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Bigtree, promoting <a href="/wiki/Pseudoscience" title="Pseudoscience">pseudoscience</a> while flirting with Holocaust denial</div></div></div> <div role="note" class="hatnote">See the main article on this topic: <a href="/wiki/Holocaust_denial" title="Holocaust denial">Holocaust denial</a></div> <p>Inappropriate Nazi analogies can have the effect of downplaying the Holocaust and other <a href="/wiki/Crimes_against_humanity" title="Crimes against humanity">crimes against humanity</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Third_Reich" class="mw-redirect" title="Third Reich">Third Reich</a>. This is particularly the case when the thing being compared to the Holocaust is not only less bad than the Holocaust but entirely unobjectionable. </p><p>For example, during the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a>, many <a href="/wiki/Anti-vaccination_movement" title="Anti-vaccination movement">anti-vaccine protesters</a> took to wearing yellow stars to protest vaccine mandates. Antivaxx leader <a href="/wiki/Del_Bigtree" title="Del Bigtree">Del Bigtree</a> started doing this before the pandemic.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61">[56]</a></sup> As international relations scholar Nicholas Grossman has pointed out, “This is a warped form of Holocaust denial. … [T]he core point, charitably interpreted, is that the Holocaust was public pressure in response to a voluntary choice, when it was actually the industrialized mass murder of millions just for who they were.”<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62">[57]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Criticisms">Criticisms</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazi_analogies&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Criticisms">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Some, such as author <a href="/wiki/Robert_J._Sawyer" title="Robert J. Sawyer">Robert J. Sawyer</a>, have criticized Godwin's Law for implying the <a href="/wiki/Holocaust" title="Holocaust">Holocaust</a> was <i>sui generis</i>, a unique event that can never happen again. Consequently, he argues, people will be reluctant to issue comparisons for future situations until it is too late, and even if they try, Godwin's Law will be used to falsely shoot them down.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63">[58]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Similar_analogies">Similar analogies</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazi_analogies&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Similar analogies">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Hitler comparisons are not the only kind of default association with negative and infamous historical figures; other people make comparisons with various other dictators such as <a href="/wiki/Mussolini" class="mw-redirect" title="Mussolini">Mussolini</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64">[59]</a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Stalin" class="mw-redirect" title="Stalin">Stalin</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65">[60]</a></sup> and many others. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="The_opposite">The opposite</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazi_analogies&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: The opposite">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>A reverse effect happens when people's views or actions are compared to those of well-known sages or heroes, such as <a href="/wiki/Einstein" class="mw-redirect" title="Einstein">Einstein</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lincoln" class="mw-redirect" title="Lincoln">Lincoln</a>, etc. The basic idea is that "if you think or do like them, you will be like them". And just like Hitler, they are often promoted as the authors of false quotes or the subjects of spurious stories. </p><p>While both Hitler<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66">[61]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67">[62]</a></sup> and Einstein<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68">[63]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69">[64]</a></sup><sup class="reference" style="white-space:nowrap;">:453–454</sup> adopted a <a href="/wiki/Vegetarian" class="mw-redirect" title="Vegetarian">vegetarian</a> diet at some point of their lives, two distinct pieces of information that are conveniently brought up by both proponents and critics of vegetarianism in separate occasions when they see fit, this hardly means that one would be as bad as Hitler or as intelligent as Einstein only because one does not eat meat. Citing historical examples (when backed up by proper historical evidence) can be an important part of supporting a cause, but are far from being a sufficient argument by themselves. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazi_analogies&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="div-col columns column-count column-count-2" style="-moz-column-count: 2; -webkit-column-count: 2; column-count: 2;"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Ad_hominem" class="mw-redirect" title="Ad hominem">Ad hominem</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antifa" class="mw-redirect" title="Antifa">Antifa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Axis_of_evil" class="mw-redirect" title="Axis of evil">Axis of evil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glenn_Beck" title="Glenn Beck">Glenn Beck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dickwad_theory" title="Dickwad theory">Dickwad theory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fascism#Broadness_of_the_term_.22fascism.22" title="Fascism">Fascism‎#Broadness of the term "fascism"</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gore%27s_Law" title="Gore's Law">Gore's Law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hyperbole" title="Hyperbole">Hyperbole</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irony_meter#Measurable_quantities" class="mw-redirect" title="Irony meter">Irony meter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scott_Lively" title="Scott Lively">Scott Lively</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red-baiting" title="Red-baiting">Red-baiting</a>, often <a href="/wiki/Shoehorning" title="Shoehorning">used</a> <a href="/wiki/Horseshoe_theory" title="Horseshoe theory">conjointly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ben_Stein" title="Ben Stein">Ben Stein</a><sup id="cite_ref-rennie_48-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rennie-48">[44]</a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Straw_man" title="Straw man">Straw man</a></li></ul></div> <h3><span id="Want_to_read_this_in_another_language?"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Want_to_read_this_in_another_language.3F">Want to read this in another language?</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazi_analogies&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Want to read this in another language?">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p><a href="/wiki/File:Lang-fa.gif" class="image"><img alt="Lang-fa.gif" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Lang-fa.gif/35px-Lang-fa.gif" decoding="async" width="35" height="23" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Lang-fa.gif/53px-Lang-fa.gif 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Lang-fa.gif/70px-Lang-fa.gif 2x" data-file-width="540" data-file-height="360" /></a><a href="/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%82%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%84_%D8%A8%D9%87_%D9%87%DB%8C%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%B1" title="تقلیل به هیتلر">تقلیل_به_هیتلر</a> in Farsi </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="External_links">External links</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazi_analogies&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li>See the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> article on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_Hitlerum" class="extiw" title="wp:Reductio ad Hitlerum" rel="nofollow"><i>Reductio ad Hitlerum</i></a>.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fallacyfiles.org/adnazium.html">Ad Nazium</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fallacy_Files" title="Fallacy Files">Fallacy Files</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.10/godwin.if.html">Meme, Counter Meme</a>, <i>Wired</i></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://faqs.cs.uu.nl/na-dir/usenet/legends/godwin.html">How to post about Nazis and get away with it</a> — the Godwin's Law FAQ</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.slate.com/articles/briefing/explainer/2011/10/hank_williams_jr_firing_who_was_the_rhetorical_worst_person_in_h.html">Before Hitler, who did people compare their political enemies to?</a> (Mostly <a href="/wiki/Pharaoh" class="mw-redirect" title="Pharaoh">this guy</a>.)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2012/09/11/greatest-godwin-ever/">Greatest. Godwin. Ever.</a>, Dispatches from the Culture Wars</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.reddit.com/r/godwinslaw/">/r/godwinslaw/</a> Godwin's law on <a href="/wiki/Reddit" title="Reddit">reddit</a>. The site of bad historical analogies.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ReFrDc8Plk">How Godwin's law demeans Hitler, hehe.</a> (<a href="/wiki/Inverse_stopped_clock" title="Inverse stopped clock">Albeit</a> using both Abu Ghraib and <a href="/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay" title="Guantanamo Bay">Guantanamo Bay</a> as examples...)</li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Notes">Notes</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazi_analogies&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Notes">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="font-size:90%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-24">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">See <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler#Childhood" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler#Childhood</a> for a brief discussion of this unsubstantiated claim.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-27">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Given that fascism is right-wing by nature, this is <a href="/wiki/Oxymoron" title="Oxymoron">a contradiction in terms</a>. Left-wing <i><a href="/wiki/Totalitarianism" title="Totalitarianism">totalitarianism</a></i> can and does exist, but left-wing <i>fascism</i> cannot and does not exist.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-37">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/User:Sophie_Wilder" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Sophie Wilder">Sophie Wilder</a> did some research and found no references to a user named "Arken" on talk.atheism which turned up no results, and the only source to be the Urban Dictionary (existing as early as 2004).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-40">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Schiavo was already clinically <a href="/wiki/Dead" class="mw-redirect" title="Dead">dead</a>, not <a href="/wiki/Disabled" class="mw-redirect" title="Disabled">disabled</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-50"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-50">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Italics in original</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazi_analogies&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; font-size:80%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/12/radioheads-thom-yorke-compares-youtube-business-model-to-nazi-art-theft/?comments=1&post=30216927">I wonder if there will come a time when nazis will become primarily known for the ridiculous analogies people make using them and not genocide.</a> comment by rupucis (Dec 1, 2015 1:17 PM) <i>Ars Technica</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-godwin-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-godwin_2-0">2.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-godwin_2-1">2.1</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/20/godwins-law-trump-hitler-comparisons/">Yes, it’s okay to compare Trump to Hitler. Don’t let me stop you.</a> by Mike Godwin (December 20, 2023 at 2:57 p.m. EST) <i>The Washington Post</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Oxford English Dictionary</i>, "Godwin's Law" entry (2012) Third edition. The quote is from the group rec.arts.sf-lovers on August 18, 1991.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">"The Social Science of Max Weber" by Leo Strauss" (1951) <i>Measure: A Critical Journal 2(2):204-230.</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-5">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Natural Right and History</i> by Leo Strauss (1953) University of Chicago Press.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-6">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.wired.com/1994/10/godwin-if-2/">Meme, Counter-meme</a> by Mike Godwin (10.01.94; 12:00 pm) <i>Wired</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-7">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>What Makes Us Smart: The Computational Logic of Human Cognition</i> by Samuel Gershman (2021) Princeton University Press. ISBN 069120571X.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-8">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFallacies/84/Extended-Analogy">Extended Analogy</a> <i>Logically Fallacious</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-9">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/7/18/2182012/-House-Republicans-now-own-Robert-F-Kennedy-s-antisemitism">House Republicans now own Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s antisemitism</a> (July 18, 2023 at 1:58:04p PDT) <i>Daily Kos</i>. The article makes the stretch from RFK Jr. making an antisemitic remark to him being a Nazi.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-10">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050611233741/https://www.catholicleague.org/05press_releases/quarter%202/050525_motherteresa.htm">"Mother F—king Teresa" Courtesy of Viacom</a> (May 25, 2005) <i>Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights</i> (archived from June 11, 2005). Regarding Penn & Teller, "This is no comedy — it is Nazi propaganda right out of the Leni Riefenstahl school of filmmaking."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-11">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090131090915/http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233050208055&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull">The wages of whining</a> by David Klinghoffer (Jan 29, 2009 14:05 | Updated Jan 31, 2009 0:51) <i>The Jerusalem Post</i> (archived from January 31, 2009). Klinghoffer, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, "In <i>Mein Kampf</i>, an influential best-seller, he relied on the language of Darwinian biology to declare a race war against the Jews."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-12">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10618638">Is it ever OK to call someone a Nazi?</a> by Andrew McFarlane (14 July 2010) <i>BBC News</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-13">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140730081310/http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/Godwin's-law">Godwin's law</a> "Oxford Dictionaries<i> (archived from July 30, 2014).</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-14">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">As <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20011102104006/http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/nyysit/3.4.html#godwin">Nyysiopas, luku 3 Nyysietiketti, Mitä ei pidä tehdä: Hitler-kortin käyttö</a> by Jukka Korpela, Tampere University of Technology (archived from November 2, 2021). "Joka tapauksessa useimmat fiksut ihmiset luultavasti pitävät Hitler-kortin pelannutta automaattisesti häviäjänä. Syynä on, että Hitler-kortin käyttö osoittaa niin vakavaa suhteellisuudentajun häiriötä, että mitään sen pelanneen aiemminkaan esittämää ei pidä ottaa vakavasti. Sama koskee Stalin-korttia ja muita vastaavia." Translation:"In any case, most smart people will probably automatically consider someone who played the Hitler card to be a loser. The reason is that the use of the Hitler card shows such a serious disturbance in the sense of proportion that nothing presented by the person who played it before should be taken seriously. The same goes for the Stalin card and the like." </span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Ars-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Ars_15-0">15.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Ars_15-1">15.1</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/09/no-nazi-comparisons-sounds-like-something-hitler-would-say.ars">No Nazi comparisons? Sounds like something Hitler would say! The strange history of Godwin's Law, and what it means for our own duties to …</a> by Nate Anderson (9/1/2011, 5:05 AM) <i>Ars Technica</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-16">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jewcy.com/arts-and-culture/i_seem_be_verb_18_years_godwins_law">I Seem To Be A Verb: 18 Years of Godwin's Law</a> by Mike Godwin (April 30, 2008) <i>Jewcy</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-17">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110918160814/http://letters.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2010/07/01/godwin/permalink/d9c9180de9d0fce57c2f3b5329785fbd.html">Letters to the Editor: The odiousness of the distorted Godwin's Law</a> by Glenn Greenwald (July 1, 2010 10:27 AM ET) <i>Salon</i> (archived from September 18, 2011).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-indy2017-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-indy2017_18-0">18.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-indy2017_18-1">18.1</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/godwins-law-mike-godwin-internet-hitler-charlottesville-virginia-donald-trump-a7892171.html">Mike Godwin: Man who devised internet Hitler law says, 'Call these Charlottesville s***heads Nazis': 'By all means, compare these s***heads to the Nazis. Again and again. I'm with you.'</a> by Andrew Griffin (August 14, 2017) <i>The Independent</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-19">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-hitlerian-month">Trump's Hitlerian Month: A September to Remember</a> by Timothy Snyder (Sep 29, 2024) <i>Substack</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-unfreedom-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-unfreedom_20-0">20.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-unfreedom_20-1">20.1</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-unfreedom_20-2">20.2</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-unfreedom_20-3">20.3</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-unfreedom_20-4">20.4</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-unfreedom_20-5">20.5</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-unfreedom_20-6">20.6</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-unfreedom_20-7">20.7</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America</i> by Timothy Snyder (2018) Tim Duggan Books. ISBN 0525574468.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-21">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Ri6uez6FGVsC"><i>Putinism: The Slow Rise of a Radical Right Regime in Russia</i></a> by Marcel Van Herpen (2013) Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 1137282800. Page 107: "Putin is too shrewd to let himself and his regime be labeled 'fascist,' but this does not mean that his regime is not developing traits of a fascist regime. […] In this case a regime must be labeled crypto-fascist […]."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-22">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/24/putin-denazify-ukraine/">Putin says he will ‘denazify’ Ukraine. Here’s the history behind that claim.</a> by Miriam Berger (February 24, 2022; Updated February 25, 2022 at 1:44 p.m. EST) <i>The Washington Post</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-23">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.npr.org/2022/03/01/1083677765/putin-denazify-ukraine-russia-history">Putin's claim of fighting against Ukraine 'neo-Nazis' distorts history, scholars say</a> by Rachel Treisman (March 1, 20223:02 PM ET) <i>NPR</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-25">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-61296682">Israel outrage at Sergei Lavrov's claim that Hitler was part Jewish</a> (May 2, 2022) <i>BBC News</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-26">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/ginni-thomas-emails-show-she-urged-wisconsin-lawmakers-to-oveturn-2020-election">Ginni Thomas emails show she urged Wisconsin lawmakers to oveturn 2020 election</a> by Scott Bauer (Sep 1, 2022 2:49 PM EST) <i>Associated Press</i> via <i>PBS</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-28">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/31/is-ginni-thomas-a-threat-to-the-supreme-court">Is Ginni Thomas a Threat to the Supreme Court? Behind closed doors, Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife is working with many groups directly involved in controversial cases before the Court.</a> by Jane Mayer (January 21, 2022) <i>The Washington Post</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-29">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/12/trump-rally-vermin-political-opponents">Trump calls political enemies ‘vermin,’ echoing dictators Hitler, Mussolini</a> by Marianne LeVine (Updated November 13, 2023 at 10:54 a.m. EST; Published November 12, 2023 at 5:45 p.m. EST) <i>The Washington Post</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-30">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-maga-movements-links-with-the-global-far-right-were-on-full-display-at-trumps-latest-party">The MAGA Movement’s Links With The Global Far Right Were On Full Display At Trump’s Latest Party</a> by Hunter Walker (December 13, 2023 12:18 p.m.) <i>Talking Points Memo</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-31">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>How Propaganda Works</i> by Jason Stanley (2015), Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691164428.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-32">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/opis-2019-0014/html?lang=en">Fake News and Propaganda: A Critical Discourse Research Perspective</a> by Iulian Vamanu (2019) <i>Open Information Science</i> 3:197–208. doi:0.1515/opis-2019-0014.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-33">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160510133203/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/lists/Fawlty-Towers-20-of-Basils-best-rants/">Fawlty Towers: 20 of Basil's best rants</a> by Oliver Smith (27 November 2015 • 12:00am) <i>The Telegraph</i> (archived from May 10, 2016).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-34">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://volokh.com/2010/11/09/nazism-firearm-registration-and-the-night-of-the-broken-glass/">Nazism, Firearm Registration, and the Night of the Broken Glass</a> by David Kopel (November 9, 2010 6:12 pm) <i>The Volokh Conspiracy</i>. <i>Caveat lector</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-35">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Godwin%27s_Feminist_Corollary">Godwin's Feminist Corollary</a> <i>Geek Feminism Wiki</i> (2013).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-arken-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-arken_36-0">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=arken%27s+law">Arken's Law</a> (October 31, 2004) <i>Urban Dictionary</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-38">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lagnado-lab/publications/harris/Harris_Hsu_Madsen_2012.pdf">Because Hitler did it! Quantitative tests of Bayesian argumentation using <i>ad hominem</i></a> by Adam J. L. Harris, Anne S. Hsu & Jens K. Madsen (2012) <i>Thinking & Reasoning</i> 18(3):311-343. doi:10.1080/13546783.2012.670753.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-39">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.slate.com/articles/briefing/explainer/2011/10/hank_williams_jr_firing_who_was_the_rhetorical_worst_person_in_h.html">Before Hitler, Who Was the Stand-In for Pure Evil?</a> by Brian Palmer (Oct 04, 20115:51 PM) <i>Slate</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-41">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-mike-johnson-editorial-on-abor/134127100/">Schiavo case advances 'culture of death'</a> by Mike Johnson (April 1, 2005) <i>Shreveport Times</i> via <i>Newspapers.com</i>. Page 13.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-42">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theshakedown.documented.net/p/new-speaker-of-the-house-equated">New Speaker of the House Equated Reproductive Rights with Holocaust: Editorial uncovered by Documented reveals Johnson's extreme views on abortion.</a> by Jamie Corey (Oct 26, 2023) <i>Documented</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-43">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2736555/">"Nicotine Nazis strike again": a brief analysis of the use of Nazi rhetoric in attacking tobacco control advocacy</a> by Nick K. Schneider & Stanton A. Glantz (2008) <i>Tobacco Control</i> 17(5):291–296. doi:10.1136/tc.2007.024653.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-44">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11332515">Row after Pope's remarks on atheism and Nazis</a> (16 September 2010) <i>BBC News</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-45">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/speeches/2010/september/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20100916_incontro-autorita.html">Address Of His Holiness Benedict XVI</a> (16 September 2010) <i>Libreria Editrice Vaticana</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-46">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/14/boris">Boris Johnson: The EU wants a superstate, just as Hitler did</a> by Tim Ross (15 May 2016 • 10:22am) <i>The Telegraph</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-47">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160521224518/http://gerardbattenmep.co.uk/2016/05/16/boris-hitler-and-the-european-union/">Boris, Hitler and the European Union.</a> (May 16, 2016) <i>Gerard Batten MEP</i> (archived from May 21, 2016).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-rennie-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-rennie_48-0">44.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-rennie_48-1">44.1</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ben-steins-expelled-review-john-rennie/">Ben Stein's <i>Expelled</i>: No Integrity Displayed. A shameful antievolution film tries to blame Darwin for the Holocaust</a> by John Rennie (April 9, 2008) <i>Scientific American</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-49"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-49">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.icr.org/article/454/">Darwin's Influence on Ruthless Laissez Faire Capitalism</a> by Jerry Bergman (March 01, 2001) <i>Institute for Creation Research</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-51">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The Gun Rights War</i> by Neal Knox (2009) MacFarlane Press. ISBN 0976863308.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-52"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-52">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">See the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> article on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_gun_control_argument" class="extiw" title="wp:Nazi gun control argument" rel="nofollow">Nazi gun control argument</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-53"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-53">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">See the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> article on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism_and_homosexuality" class="extiw" title="wp:Nazism and homosexuality" rel="nofollow">Nazism and homosexuality</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-54"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-54">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.mediamatters.org/dinesh-dsouza/dinesh-dsouzas-lazy-ugly-propaganda-film">Dinesh D'Souza's lazy, ugly propaganda film: <i>Death of a Nation</i> is a disgusting farce, even by D’Souza standards</a> by Simon Maloy (08/09/18 11:03 AM EDT) <i>Media Matters for America</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-55"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-55">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181219130940/https://ria.ru/20170529/1495279242.html">Патриарх сравнил законы о гей-браках с законами фашистской Германии</a> (May 29, 2017) <i>RIA Novosti</i> (archived from December 19, 2018) "Принимаемые в ряде стран Запада законы о разрешении гомосексуальных браков полностью порывают с нравственной природой человека и вызывают такое же возмущение людей, как в свое время и законы фашистской Германии". Translation: "The laws adopted in a number of Western countries to allow homosexual marriages completely break with the moral nature of man and cause the same indignation of people as the laws of fascist Germany did in their time."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-56"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-56">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2017/05/29/head-of-orthodox-church-compares-homosexual-marriage-to-nazism-a58108">Head of Orthodox Church Compares Homosexual Marriage to Nazism Head of Orthodox Church Compares Homosexual Marriage to Nazism</a> (May 29, 2017) <i>Moscow Times</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-57"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-57">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.snopes.com/news/2017/09/05/were-nazis-socialists/">Were the Nazis Socialists? We look into the burning (at least for some) question of whether members of the National German Socialist Workers' Party were accurately classified as "socialists".</a> by David Emery (5 Sep 2017) <i>Snopes</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-solender-58"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-solender_58-0">53.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-solender_58-1">53.1</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2021/07/08/heres-what-marjorie-taylor-greene-has-compared-to-nazi-germany/">Here’s Everything Marjorie Taylor Greene Has Compared To Nazi Germany</a> by Andrew Solender (Jul 9, 2021, 09:57am EDT) <i>Forbes</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-59"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-59">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/01/26/266685819/billionaire-compares-outrage-over-rich-in-s-f-to-kristallnacht">Billionaire Compares Outrage Over Rich In SF To Kristallnacht</a> by Elise Hu (January 26, 20144:10 PM ET) <i>NPR</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-60"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-60">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change</i> by Jonah Goldberg (2009)‎ Forum Books. ISBN 0767917189.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-61"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-61">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.adl.org/blog/anti-vaccine-protesters-misappropriate-holocaust-era-symbol-to-promote-their-cause">Anti-Vaccine Protesters Misappropriate Holocaust-Era Symbol to Promote Their Cause</a> (April 5, 2019) <i>ADL</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-62"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-62">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.is/yFcpB">This is a warped form of Holocaust denial. Might not seem like it at first, but the core point, charitably interpreted, is that the Holocaust was public pressure in response to a voluntary choice, when it actually was industrialized mass murder of millions just for who they were.</a> by Nicholas Grossman (4:50 PM - 12 Nov 2021) <i>Twitter</i> (archived from 4 Feb 2022 19:37:36 UTC).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-63"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-63">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sfwriter.com/blog/?p=4819">Authoritarians: An existential threat</a> by Robert J. Sawyer (December 18<sup>th</sup>, 2015) <i>Science Fiction Writer</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-64"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-64">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.wthr.com/amp/article/news/politics/trump-tweeting-mussolini-quote-its-very-interesting-quote/531-d929f6c3-45f1-4f0c-8b48-70460923c0c0">Trump on tweeting Mussolini quote: 'It's a very interesting quote'</a> by Evan Hoffmeyer (November 27, 2017) <i>WTHR</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-65"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-65">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/7k6lwo/til_that_theres_a_communist_version_of_reductio/?rdt=37006">TIL that there’s a communist version of “reductio ad Hitlerum” called “reductio ad Stalinum”, where the person who commits the fallacy dismisses his or her opponent as a socialist, marxist or communist</a> by TARDIS40TT (c. 2017) <i>Reddit</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-66"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-66">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Hitler: A Study in Tyranny</i> by Alan Bullock (1962) Penguin Books. ISBN 0140135642.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-67"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-67">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Adolf Hitler</i> by John Toland (1976) Ballantine Books. ISBN 0345258991.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-68"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-68">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ivu.org/history/northam20a/einstein.html">Albert Einstein (1879-1955)</a> <i>International Vegetarian Union</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-69"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-69">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The Ultimate Quotable Einstein</i>, edited by Alice Calaprice (2011) Princeton University Press. 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href="/wiki/Appeal_to_novelty" title="Appeal to novelty">Appeal to novelty</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_nature" title="Appeal to nature">Appeal to nature</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argument_from_morality" title="Argument from morality">Argument from morality</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_martyrdom" title="Argumentum ad martyrdom">Argumentum ad martyrdom</a> • <a href="/wiki/Big_words" title="Big words">Big words</a> • <a href="/wiki/Certum_est_quia_impossibile_est" title="Certum est quia impossibile est">Certum est quia impossibile est</a> • <a href="/wiki/Morton%27s_fork" title="Morton's fork">Morton's fork</a> • <a href="/wiki/Friend_argument" title="Friend argument">Friend argument</a> • <a href="/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule" title="Exception that proves the rule">Exception that proves the rule</a> • <a href="/wiki/Extended_analogy" title="Extended analogy">Extended analogy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Hindsight_bias" title="Hindsight bias">Hindsight bias</a> • <a href="/wiki/Race_card" title="Race card">Race card</a> • <a href="/wiki/Moralistic_fallacy" title="Moralistic fallacy">Moralistic fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Release_the_data" title="Release the data">Release the data</a> • <a href="/wiki/Gish_Gallop" title="Gish Gallop">Gish Gallop</a> • <a href="/wiki/Terrorism-baiting" title="Terrorism-baiting">Terrorism-baiting</a> • <a href="/wiki/Uncertainty_tactic" title="Uncertainty tactic">Uncertainty tactic</a> • <a href="/wiki/Greece-baiting" title="Greece-baiting">Greece-baiting</a> • <a href="/wiki/Ham_Hightail" title="Ham Hightail">Ham Hightail</a> • <a href="/wiki/Red-baiting" title="Red-baiting">Red-baiting</a> • <a href="/wiki/Gore%27s_Law" title="Gore's Law">Gore's Law</a> • <a href="/wiki/Mistaking_the_map_for_the_territory" title="Mistaking the map for the territory">Mistaking the map for the territory</a> • <a href="/wiki/Red_herring" title="Red herring">Red herring</a> • <a href="/wiki/Quidquid_latine_dictum_sit,_altum_videtur" title="Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur">Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur</a> • <a href="/wiki/Presentism" title="Presentism">Presentism</a> • <a href="/wiki/Sunk_cost" title="Sunk cost">Sunk cost</a> • <a href="/wiki/Two_wrongs_make_a_right" title="Two wrongs make a right">Two wrongs make a right</a> • <a href="/wiki/Flying_carpet_fallacy" title="Flying carpet fallacy">Flying carpet fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/My_enemy%27s_enemy" title="My enemy's enemy">My enemy's enemy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_ancient_wisdom" title="Appeal to ancient wisdom">Appeal to ancient wisdom</a> • <a href="/wiki/Danth%27s_Law" title="Danth's Law">Danth's Law</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_lunam" title="Argumentum ad lunam">Argumentum ad lunam</a> • <a href="/wiki/Balance_fallacy" title="Balance fallacy">Balance fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Golden_hammer" title="Golden hammer">Golden hammer</a> • <a href="/wiki/Loaded_question" title="Loaded question">Loaded question</a> • <a href="/wiki/Escape_to_the_future" title="Escape to the future">Escape to the future</a> • <a href="/wiki/Word_magic" title="Word magic">Word magic</a> • <a href="/wiki/Spider-Man_fallacy" title="Spider-Man fallacy">Spider-Man fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Sanctioning_the_devil" title="Sanctioning the devil">Sanctioning the devil</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_mystery" title="Appeal to mystery">Appeal to mystery</a> • <a href="/wiki/Informal_fallacy" title="Informal fallacy">Informal fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Common_sense" title="Common sense">Common sense</a> • <a href="/wiki/Post-designation" title="Post-designation">Post-designation</a> • <a href="/wiki/Hyperbole" title="Hyperbole">Hyperbole</a> • <a href="/wiki/Relativist_fallacy" title="Relativist fallacy">Relativist fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Due_diligence" title="Due diligence">Due diligence</a> • <a href="/wiki/Straw_man" title="Straw man">Straw man</a> • <a href="/wiki/Good_old_days" title="Good old days">Good old days</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_probability" title="Appeal to probability">Appeal to probability</a> • <a href="/wiki/Infinite_regress" title="Infinite regress">Infinite regress</a> • <a href="/wiki/Circular_reasoning" title="Circular reasoning">Circular reasoning</a> • <a href="/wiki/Media_was_wrong_before" title="Media was wrong before">Media was wrong before</a> • <a href="/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem" title="Is–ought problem">Is–ought problem</a> • <a href="/wiki/Ad_iram" title="Ad iram">Ad iram</a> • <a href="/wiki/Just_asking_questions" title="Just asking questions">Just asking questions</a> • <a href="/wiki/Pink-baiting" title="Pink-baiting">Pink-baiting</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_faith" title="Appeal to faith">Appeal to faith</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_fear" title="Appeal to fear">Appeal to fear</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_bias" title="Appeal to bias">Appeal to bias</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_confidence" title="Appeal to confidence">Appeal to confidence</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_consequences" title="Appeal to consequences">Appeal to consequences</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_emotion" title="Appeal to emotion">Appeal to emotion</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_flattery" title="Appeal to flattery">Appeal to flattery</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_gravity" title="Appeal to gravity">Appeal to gravity</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_hate" title="Appeal to hate">Appeal to hate</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argument_from_omniscience" title="Argument from omniscience">Argument from omniscience</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argument_from_silence" title="Argument from silence">Argument from silence</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_baculum" title="Argumentum ad baculum">Argumentum ad baculum</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_fastidium" title="Argumentum ad fastidium">Argumentum ad fastidium</a> • <a href="/wiki/Association_fallacy" title="Association fallacy">Association fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Broken_window_fallacy" title="Broken window fallacy">Broken window fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Category_mistake" title="Category mistake">Category mistake</a> • <a href="/wiki/Confounding_factor" title="Confounding factor">Confounding factor</a> • <a href="/wiki/Counterfactual_fallacy" title="Counterfactual fallacy">Counterfactual fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Courtier%27s_Reply" title="Courtier's Reply">Courtier's Reply</a> • <a href="/wiki/Damning_with_faint_praise" title="Damning with faint praise">Damning with faint praise</a> • <a href="/wiki/Definitional_fallacies" title="Definitional fallacies">Definitional fallacies</a> • <a href="/wiki/Equivocation" title="Equivocation">Equivocation</a> • <a href="/wiki/Fallacy_of_accent" title="Fallacy of accent">Fallacy of accent</a> • <a href="/wiki/Fallacy_of_accident" title="Fallacy of accident">Fallacy of accident</a> • <a href="/wiki/Fallacy_of_amphiboly" title="Fallacy of amphiboly">Fallacy of amphiboly</a> • <a href="/wiki/Gambler%27s_fallacy" title="Gambler's fallacy">Gambler's fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Imprecision_fallacy" title="Imprecision fallacy">Imprecision fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Moving_the_goalposts" title="Moving the goalposts">Moving the goalposts</a> • <a href="/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy" title="Nirvana fallacy">Nirvana fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Overprecision" title="Overprecision">Overprecision</a> • <a href="/wiki/Pathos_gambit" title="Pathos gambit">Pathos gambit</a> • <a href="/wiki/Pragmatic_fallacy" title="Pragmatic fallacy">Pragmatic fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Quote_mining" title="Quote mining">Quote mining</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_sarcina_inserta" title="Argumentum ad sarcina inserta">Argumentum ad sarcina inserta</a> • <a href="/wiki/Science_doesn%27t_know_everything" title="Science doesn't know everything">Science doesn't know everything</a> • <a href="/wiki/Slothful_induction" title="Slothful induction">Slothful induction</a> • <a href="/wiki/Spotlight_fallacy" title="Spotlight fallacy">Spotlight fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Style_over_substance" title="Style over substance">Style over substance</a> • <a href="/wiki/Toupee_fallacy" title="Toupee fallacy">Toupee fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Genuine_but_insignificant_cause" title="Genuine but insignificant cause">Genuine but insignificant cause</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argument_from_incredulity" title="Argument from incredulity">Argument from incredulity</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_age" title="Appeal to age">Appeal to age</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_nauseam" title="Argumentum ad nauseam">Argumentum ad nauseam</a> • <a href="/wiki/Phantom_distinction" title="Phantom distinction">Phantom distinction</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_common_sense" title="Appeal to common sense">Appeal to common sense</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_hysteria" title="Argumentum ad hysteria">Argumentum ad hysteria</a> • <a href="/wiki/Omnipotence_paradox" title="Omnipotence paradox">Omnipotence paradox</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argument_from_etymology" title="Argument from etymology">Argument from etymology</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_trauma" title="Appeal to trauma">Appeal to trauma</a> • <a href="/wiki/Countless_counterfeits_fallacy" title="Countless counterfeits fallacy">Countless counterfeits fallacy</a> • </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width:5%;">  </td> <td colspan="2" style="background:#009761; width:20%; text-align:right;"><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Ad_hoc" title="Category:Ad hoc"><span style="color:white; font-size:125%">Ad hoc:</span></a></b> </td> <td style="background:#FFFFFF;"> <a href="/wiki/No_True_Scotsman" title="No True Scotsman">No True Scotsman</a> • <a href="/wiki/Moving_the_goalposts" title="Moving the goalposts">Moving the goalposts</a> • <a href="/wiki/Escape_hatch" title="Escape hatch">Escape hatch</a> • <a href="/wiki/Handwave" title="Handwave">Handwave</a> • <a href="/wiki/Special_pleading" title="Special pleading">Special pleading</a> • <a href="/wiki/Slothful_induction" title="Slothful induction">Slothful induction</a> • <a href="/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy" title="Nirvana fallacy">Nirvana fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/God_of_the_gaps" title="God of the gaps">God of the gaps</a> • <a href="/wiki/PIDOOMA" title="PIDOOMA">PIDOOMA</a> • <a href="/wiki/Ad_hoc" title="Ad hoc">Ad hoc</a> • <a href="/wiki/Tone_argument" title="Tone argument">Tone argument</a> • </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width:5%;">  </td> <td colspan="2" style="background:#009761; width:20%; text-align:right;"><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Arguments_from_ignorance" title="Category:Arguments from ignorance"><span style="color:white; font-size:125%">Arguments from ignorance:</span></a></b> </td> <td style="background:#FFFFFF;"> <a href="/wiki/Science_doesn%27t_know_everything" title="Science doesn't know everything">Science doesn't know everything</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argument_from_incredulity" title="Argument from incredulity">Argument from incredulity</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argument_from_silence" title="Argument from silence">Argument from silence</a> • <a href="/wiki/Toupee_fallacy" title="Toupee fallacy">Toupee fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_censorship" title="Appeal to censorship">Appeal to censorship</a> • <a href="/wiki/Science_was_wrong_before" title="Science was wrong before">Science was wrong before</a> • <a href="/wiki/Holmesian_fallacy" title="Holmesian fallacy">Holmesian fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argument_from_omniscience" title="Argument from omniscience">Argument from omniscience</a> • <a href="/wiki/Willful_ignorance" title="Willful ignorance">Willful ignorance</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance" title="Argument from ignorance">Argument from ignorance</a> • </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width:5%;">  </td> <td colspan="2" style="background:#009761; width:20%; text-align:right;"><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Causation_fallacies" title="Category:Causation fallacies"><span style="color:white; font-size:125%">Causation fallacies:</span></a></b> </td> <td style="background:#FFFFFF;"> <a href="/wiki/Post_hoc,_ergo_propter_hoc" title="Post hoc, ergo propter hoc">Post hoc, ergo propter hoc</a> • <a href="/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation" title="Correlation does not imply causation">Correlation does not imply causation</a> • <a href="/wiki/Wrong_direction" title="Wrong direction">Wrong direction</a> • <a href="/wiki/Counterfactual_fallacy" title="Counterfactual fallacy">Counterfactual fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Regression_fallacy" title="Regression fallacy">Regression fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Gambler%27s_fallacy" title="Gambler's fallacy">Gambler's fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Denying_the_antecedent" title="Denying the antecedent">Denying the antecedent</a> • <a href="/wiki/Genuine_but_insignificant_cause" title="Genuine but insignificant cause">Genuine but insignificant cause</a> • </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width:5%;">  </td> <td colspan="2" style="background:#009761; width:20%; text-align:right;"><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Circular_reasoning" title="Category:Circular reasoning"><span style="color:white; font-size:125%">Circular reasoning:</span></a></b> </td> <td style="background:#FFFFFF;"> <a href="/wiki/Infinite_regress" title="Infinite regress">Infinite regress</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argument_by_assertion" title="Argument by assertion">Argument by assertion</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_dictionarium" title="Argumentum ad dictionarium">Argumentum ad dictionarium</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_faith" title="Appeal to faith">Appeal to faith</a> • <a href="/wiki/Circular_reasoning" title="Circular reasoning">Circular reasoning</a> • <a href="/wiki/Self-refuting_idea" title="Self-refuting idea">Self-refuting idea</a> • </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width:5%;">  </td> <td colspan="2" style="background:#009761; width:20%; text-align:right;"><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Emotional_appeals" title="Category:Emotional appeals"><span style="color:white; font-size:125%">Emotional appeals:</span></a></b> </td> <td style="background:#FFFFFF;"> <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_fear" title="Appeal to fear">Appeal to fear</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_emotion" title="Appeal to emotion">Appeal to emotion</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_confidence" title="Appeal to confidence">Appeal to confidence</a> • <a href="/wiki/Deepity" title="Deepity">Deepity</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_baculum" title="Argumentum ad baculum">Argumentum ad baculum</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_shame" title="Appeal to shame">Appeal to shame</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_flattery" title="Appeal to flattery">Appeal to flattery</a> • <a href="/wiki/Tone_argument" title="Tone argument">Tone argument</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_money" title="Appeal to money">Appeal to money</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_fastidium" title="Argumentum ad fastidium">Argumentum ad fastidium</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_gravity" title="Appeal to gravity">Appeal to gravity</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_consequences" title="Appeal to consequences">Appeal to consequences</a> • <a href="/wiki/Loaded_language" title="Loaded language">Loaded language</a> • <a href="/wiki/Style_over_substance" title="Style over substance">Style over substance</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_pity" title="Appeal to pity">Appeal to pity</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_hate" title="Appeal to hate">Appeal to hate</a> • <a href="/wiki/Pathos_gambit" title="Pathos gambit">Pathos gambit</a> • <a href="/wiki/Shaming" title="Shaming">Shaming</a> • <a href="/wiki/Degenerate" title="Degenerate">Degenerate</a> • <a href="/wiki/Abomination" title="Abomination">Abomination</a> • </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width:5%;">  </td> <td colspan="2" style="background:#009761; width:20%; text-align:right;"><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Fallacies_of_ambiguity" title="Category:Fallacies of ambiguity"><span style="color:white; font-size:125%">Fallacies of ambiguity:</span></a></b> </td> <td style="background:#FFFFFF;"> <a href="/wiki/Fallacy_of_accent" title="Fallacy of accent">Fallacy of accent</a> • <a href="/wiki/Equivocation" title="Equivocation">Equivocation</a> • <a href="/wiki/Fallacy_of_amphiboly" title="Fallacy of amphiboly">Fallacy of amphiboly</a> • <a href="/wiki/Quote_mining" title="Quote mining">Quote mining</a> • <a href="/wiki/Fallacy_of_ambiguity" title="Fallacy of ambiguity">Fallacy of ambiguity</a> • <a href="/wiki/Moral_equivalence" title="Moral equivalence">Moral equivalence</a> • <a href="/wiki/Scope_fallacy" title="Scope fallacy">Scope fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Suppressed_correlative" title="Suppressed correlative">Suppressed correlative</a> • <a href="/wiki/Not_as_bad_as" title="Not as bad as">Not as bad as</a> • <a href="/wiki/Etymology" title="Etymology">Etymology</a> • <a href="/wiki/Continuum_fallacy" title="Continuum fallacy">Continuum fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Wronger_than_wrong" title="Wronger than wrong">Wronger than wrong</a> • <a href="/wiki/Definitional_fallacies" title="Definitional fallacies">Definitional fallacies</a> • <a href="/wiki/Code_word" title="Code word">Code word</a> • <a href="/wiki/Phantom_distinction" title="Phantom distinction">Phantom distinction</a> • </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" style="background:#009761; width:25%; text-align:right;"><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Formal_fallacies" title="Category:Formal fallacies"><span style="color:white; font-size:125%">Formal fallacies:</span></a></b> </td> <td style="background:#FFFFFF;"> <a href="/wiki/Confusion_of_the_inverse" title="Confusion of the inverse">Confusion of the inverse</a> • <a href="/wiki/Denying_the_antecedent" title="Denying the antecedent">Denying the antecedent</a> • <a href="/wiki/Non_sequitur" title="Non sequitur">Non sequitur</a> • <a href="/wiki/Affirmative_conclusion_from_a_negative_premise" title="Affirmative conclusion from a negative premise">Affirmative conclusion from a negative premise</a> • <a href="/wiki/Not_even_wrong" title="Not even wrong">Not even wrong</a> • <a href="/wiki/Chewbacca_Defense" title="Chewbacca Defense">Chewbacca Defense</a> • <a href="/wiki/Affirming_a_disjunct" title="Affirming a disjunct">Affirming a disjunct</a> • <a href="/wiki/Illicit_process" title="Illicit process">Illicit process</a> • <a href="/wiki/Four-term_fallacy" title="Four-term fallacy">Four-term fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Negative_conclusion_from_affirmative_premises" title="Negative conclusion from affirmative premises">Negative conclusion from affirmative premises</a> • <a href="/wiki/Fallacy_fallacy" title="Fallacy fallacy">Fallacy fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Substituting_explanation_for_premise" title="Substituting explanation for premise">Substituting explanation for premise</a> • <a href="/wiki/Enthymeme" title="Enthymeme">Enthymeme</a> • <a href="/wiki/Syllogism" title="Syllogism">Syllogism</a> • <a href="/wiki/Formal_fallacy" title="Formal fallacy">Formal fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Existential_assumption" title="Existential assumption">Existential assumption</a> • <a href="/wiki/Masked_man_fallacy" title="Masked man fallacy">Masked man fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Self-refuting_idea" title="Self-refuting idea">Self-refuting idea</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argument_by_gibberish" title="Argument by gibberish">Argument by gibberish</a> • <a href="/wiki/One_single_proof" title="One single proof">One single proof</a> • <a href="/wiki/Affirming_the_consequent" title="Affirming the consequent">Affirming the consequent</a> • <a href="/wiki/False_dilemma" title="False dilemma">False dilemma</a> • <a href="/wiki/Conjunction_fallacy" title="Conjunction fallacy">Conjunction fallacy</a> • </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" style="background:#009761; width:25%; text-align:right;"><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Fallacious_arguments" title="Category:Fallacious arguments"><span style="color:white; font-size:125%">Fallacious arguments:</span></a></b> </td> <td style="background:#FFFFFF;"> <a href="/wiki/Bumblebee_argument" title="Bumblebee argument">Bumblebee argument</a> • <a href="/wiki/Fatwa_envy" title="Fatwa envy">Fatwa envy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Gotcha_argument" title="Gotcha argument">Gotcha argument</a> • <a href="/wiki/Hoyle%27s_fallacy" title="Hoyle's fallacy">Hoyle's fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Intuition_pump" title="Intuition pump">Intuition pump</a> • <a href="/wiki/Logic_and_Creation" title="Logic and Creation">Logic and Creation</a> • <a href="/wiki/Not_Circular_Reasoning" title="Not Circular Reasoning">Not Circular Reasoning</a> • <a href="/wiki/Peanut_butter_argument" title="Peanut butter argument">Peanut butter argument</a> • <a href="/wiki/Great_Beethoven_fallacy" title="Great Beethoven fallacy">Great Beethoven fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Fallacy_of_unique_founding_conditions" title="Fallacy of unique founding conditions">Fallacy of unique founding conditions</a> • <a href="/wiki/Evil_is_the_absence_of_God" title="Evil is the absence of God">Evil is the absence of God</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argument_from_first_cause" title="Argument from first cause">Argument from first cause</a> • <a href="/wiki/How_do_you_know%3F_Were_you_there%3F" title="How do you know? Were you there?">How do you know? Were you there?</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argument_from_design" title="Argument from design">Argument from design</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argument_from_beauty" title="Argument from beauty">Argument from beauty</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_nature" title="Appeal to nature">Appeal to nature</a> • <a href="/wiki/Solferino_fallacy" title="Solferino fallacy">Solferino fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Religious_scientists" title="Religious scientists">Religious scientists</a> • <a href="/wiki/Nothing_to_hide" title="Nothing to hide">Nothing to hide</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argument_from_fine_tuning" title="Argument from fine tuning">Argument from fine tuning</a> • <a href="/wiki/Creep_shaming" title="Creep shaming">Creep shaming</a> • <a href="/wiki/%22I_used_to_be_an_atheist%22" title=""I used to be an atheist"">"I used to be an atheist"</a> • <a href="/wiki/Atheism_as_a_religion" title="Atheism as a religion">Atheism as a religion</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum" title="Argumentum ad populum">Argumentum ad populum</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argument_from_morality" title="Argument from morality">Argument from morality</a> • <a href="/wiki/Anti-environmentalism" title="Anti-environmentalism">Anti-environmentalism</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_bias" title="Appeal to bias">Appeal to bias</a> • <a href="/wiki/Apophasis" title="Apophasis">Apophasis</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_nauseam" title="Argumentum ad nauseam">Argumentum ad nauseam</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_censorship" title="Appeal to censorship">Appeal to censorship</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_sarcina_inserta" title="Argumentum ad sarcina inserta">Argumentum ad sarcina inserta</a> • <a href="/wiki/Blaming_the_victim" title="Blaming the victim">Blaming the victim</a> • <a href="/wiki/Bait-and-switch" title="Bait-and-switch">Bait-and-switch</a> • <a href="/wiki/Danth%27s_Law" title="Danth's Law">Danth's Law</a> • <a href="/wiki/Chewbacca_Defense" title="Chewbacca Defense">Chewbacca Defense</a> • <a href="/wiki/Canard" title="Canard">Canard</a> • <a href="/wiki/DARVO" title="DARVO">DARVO</a> • <a href="/wiki/Demonization" title="Demonization">Demonization</a> • <a href="/wiki/Escape_hatch" title="Escape hatch">Escape hatch</a> • <a href="/wiki/Friend_argument" title="Friend argument">Friend argument</a> • <a href="/wiki/Everyone_is_racist" title="Everyone is racist">Everyone is racist</a> • <a href="/wiki/Gish_Gallop" title="Gish Gallop">Gish Gallop</a> • <a href="/wiki/Greece-baiting" title="Greece-baiting">Greece-baiting</a> • <a href="/wiki/Gore%27s_Law" title="Gore's Law">Gore's Law</a> • <a href="/wiki/Ham_Hightail" title="Ham Hightail">Ham Hightail</a> • <a href="/wiki/Just_asking_questions" title="Just asking questions">Just asking questions</a> • <a href="/wiki/Leading_question" title="Leading question">Leading question</a> • <a href="/wiki/Loaded_language" title="Loaded language">Loaded language</a> • <a href="/wiki/Linking_to_authority" title="Linking to authority">Linking to authority</a> • <a href="/wiki/Loaded_question" title="Loaded question">Loaded question</a> • <a href="/wiki/Lying_by_omission" title="Lying by omission">Lying by omission</a> • <a href="/wiki/Motte_and_bailey" title="Motte and bailey">Motte and bailey</a> • <a href="/wiki/Moving_the_goalposts" title="Moving the goalposts">Moving the goalposts</a> • <a href="/wiki/One_single_proof" title="One single proof">One single proof</a> • <a href="/wiki/Pink-baiting" title="Pink-baiting">Pink-baiting</a> • <a href="/wiki/One-way_hash_argument" title="One-way hash argument">One-way hash argument</a> • <a href="/wiki/Pathos_gambit" title="Pathos gambit">Pathos gambit</a> • <a href="/wiki/Quote_mining" title="Quote mining">Quote mining</a> • <a href="/wiki/Poisoning_the_well" title="Poisoning the well">Poisoning the well</a> • <a href="/wiki/Quidquid_latine_dictum_sit,_altum_videtur" title="Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur">Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur</a> • <a href="/wiki/Race_card" title="Race card">Race card</a> • <a href="/wiki/Red-baiting" title="Red-baiting">Red-baiting</a> • <a href="/wiki/Red_herring" title="Red herring">Red herring</a> • <a href="/wiki/Release_the_data" title="Release the data">Release the data</a> • <a href="/wiki/Science_was_wrong_before" title="Science was wrong before">Science was wrong before</a> • <a href="/wiki/Shill_gambit" title="Shill gambit">Shill gambit</a> • <a href="/wiki/Straw_man" title="Straw man">Straw man</a> • <a href="/wiki/Silent_Majority" title="Silent Majority">Silent Majority</a> • <a href="/wiki/Uncertainty_tactic" title="Uncertainty tactic">Uncertainty tactic</a> • <a href="/wiki/Style_over_substance" title="Style over substance">Style over substance</a> • <a href="/wiki/Terrorism-baiting" title="Terrorism-baiting">Terrorism-baiting</a> • <a href="/wiki/Weasel_word" title="Weasel word">Weasel word</a> • <a href="/wiki/What%27s_the_harm_(logical_fallacy)" title="What's the harm (logical fallacy)">What's the harm (logical fallacy)</a> • <a href="/wiki/Whataboutism" title="Whataboutism">Whataboutism</a> • <a href="/wiki/Bullshit" title="Bullshit">Bullshit</a> • <a href="/wiki/Logical_fallacy" title="Logical fallacy">Logical fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Banana_argument" title="Banana argument">Banana argument</a> • <a href="/wiki/Scapegoat" title="Scapegoat">Scapegoat</a> • <a href="/wiki/How_come_there_are_still_monkeys%3F" title="How come there are still monkeys?">How come there are still monkeys?</a> • <a href="/wiki/Anti-racist_is_a_code_word_for_anti-white" title="Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white">Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white</a> • <a href="/wiki/Ontological_argument" title="Ontological argument">Ontological argument</a> • <a href="/wiki/Omnipotence_paradox" title="Omnipotence paradox">Omnipotence paradox</a> • <a href="/wiki/Presuppositionalism" title="Presuppositionalism">Presuppositionalism</a> • <a href="/wiki/Just_a_joke" title="Just a joke">Just a joke</a> • <a href="/wiki/Countless_counterfeits_fallacy" title="Countless counterfeits fallacy">Countless counterfeits fallacy</a> • </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" style="background:#009761; width:25%; text-align:right;"><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Conditional_fallacies" title="Category:Conditional fallacies"><span style="color:white; font-size:125%">Conditional fallacies:</span></a></b> </td> <td style="background:#FFFFFF;"> <a href="/wiki/Slippery_slope" title="Slippery slope">Slippery slope</a> • <a href="/wiki/What%27s_the_harm_(logical_fallacy)" title="What's the harm (logical fallacy)">What's the harm (logical fallacy)</a> • <a href="/wiki/Special_pleading" title="Special pleading">Special pleading</a> • <a href="/wiki/Conditional_fallacy" title="Conditional fallacy">Conditional fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/On_the_spot_fallacy" title="On the spot fallacy">On the spot fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_the_minority" title="Appeal to the minority">Appeal to the minority</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum" title="Argumentum ad populum">Argumentum ad populum</a> • <a href="/wiki/Galileo_gambit" title="Galileo gambit">Galileo gambit</a> • <a href="/wiki/Professor_of_nothing" title="Professor of nothing">Professor of nothing</a> • </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width:5%;">  </td> <td colspan="2" style="background:#009761; width:20%; text-align:right;"><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Genetic_fallacies" title="Category:Genetic fallacies"><span style="color:white; font-size:125%">Genetic fallacies:</span></a></b> </td> <td style="background:#FFFFFF;"> <a href="/wiki/Genetic_fallacy" title="Genetic fallacy">Genetic fallacy</a> • </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width:5%;">  </td> <td style="width:5%;">  </td> <td colspan="1" style="background:#009761; width:15%; text-align:right;"><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Appeals_to_authority" title="Category:Appeals to authority"><span style="color:white; font-size:125%">Appeals to authority:</span></a></b> </td> <td style="background:#FFFFFF;"> <a href="/wiki/Ipse_dixit" title="Ipse dixit">Ipse dixit</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_confidence" title="Appeal to confidence">Appeal to confidence</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum" title="Argumentum ad populum">Argumentum ad populum</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argument_from_authority" title="Argument from authority">Argument from authority</a> • <a href="/wiki/Linking_to_authority" title="Linking to authority">Linking to authority</a> • <a href="/wiki/Silent_Majority" title="Silent Majority">Silent Majority</a> • <a href="/wiki/Invincible_authority" title="Invincible authority">Invincible authority</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_celebrity" title="Appeal to celebrity">Appeal to celebrity</a> • <a href="/wiki/Ultracrepidarianism" title="Ultracrepidarianism">Ultracrepidarianism</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_the_minority" title="Appeal to the minority">Appeal to the minority</a> • <a href="/wiki/Galileo_gambit" title="Galileo gambit">Galileo gambit</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_identity" title="Appeal to identity">Appeal to identity</a> • <a href="/wiki/Weasel_word" title="Weasel word">Weasel word</a> • <a href="/wiki/Professor_of_nothing" title="Professor of nothing">Professor of nothing</a> • <a href="/wiki/Euthyphro_dilemma" title="Euthyphro dilemma">Euthyphro dilemma</a> • <a href="/wiki/Divine_command_theory" title="Divine command theory">Divine command theory</a> • </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width:5%;">  </td> <td style="width:5%;">  </td> <td colspan="1" style="background:#009761; width:15%; text-align:right;"><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Ad_hominem" title="Category:Ad hominem"><span style="color:white; font-size:125%">Ad hominem:</span></a></b> </td> <td style="background:#FFFFFF;"> <a href="/wiki/Ad_iram" title="Ad iram">Ad iram</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_cellarium" title="Argumentum ad cellarium">Argumentum ad cellarium</a> • <a href="/wiki/Bulverism" title="Bulverism">Bulverism</a> • <a href="/wiki/Poisoning_the_well" title="Poisoning the well">Poisoning the well</a> • <a href="/wiki/Blaming_the_victim" title="Blaming the victim">Blaming the victim</a> • <a href="/wiki/Tu_quoque" title="Tu quoque">Tu quoque</a> • <a href="/wiki/Whataboutism" title="Whataboutism">Whataboutism</a> • <a href="/wiki/Nutpicking" title="Nutpicking">Nutpicking</a> • <a href="/wiki/Jonanism" title="Jonanism">Jonanism</a> • <a href="/wiki/Demonization" title="Demonization">Demonization</a> • <a href="/wiki/Shill_gambit" title="Shill gambit">Shill gambit</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_bias" title="Appeal to bias">Appeal to bias</a> • <a href="/wiki/Fallacy_of_opposition" title="Fallacy of opposition">Fallacy of opposition</a> • <a href="/wiki/Association_fallacy" title="Association fallacy">Association fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Damning_with_faint_praise" title="Damning with faint praise">Damning with faint praise</a> • <a href="/wiki/Pathos_gambit" title="Pathos gambit">Pathos gambit</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_identity" title="Appeal to identity">Appeal to identity</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_hominem" title="Argumentum ad hominem">Argumentum ad hominem</a> • <a href="/wiki/Not_an_argument" title="Not an argument">Not an argument</a> • <a href="/wiki/Nothing_to_hide" title="Nothing to hide">Nothing to hide</a> • <a href="/wiki/Scapegoat" title="Scapegoat">Scapegoat</a> • <a href="/wiki/%E5%9C%B0%E4%B8%8B%E5%AE%A4%E8%AE%BA%E8%AF%81" title="地下室论证">地下室论证</a> • </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width:5%;">  </td> <td colspan="2" style="background:#009761; width:20%; text-align:right;"><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Imprecision_fallacies" title="Category:Imprecision fallacies"><span style="color:white; font-size:125%">Imprecision fallacies:</span></a></b> </td> <td style="background:#FFFFFF;"> <a href="/wiki/Apex_fallacy" title="Apex fallacy">Apex fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Overprecision" title="Overprecision">Overprecision</a> • <a href="/wiki/Cherry_picking" title="Cherry picking">Cherry picking</a> • <a href="/wiki/Overgeneralization" title="Overgeneralization">Overgeneralization</a> • <a href="/wiki/Texas_sharpshooter_fallacy" title="Texas sharpshooter fallacy">Texas sharpshooter fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/False_analogy" title="False analogy">False analogy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_fiction" title="Appeal to fiction">Appeal to fiction</a> • <a href="/wiki/Spotlight_fallacy" title="Spotlight fallacy">Spotlight fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Pragmatic_fallacy" title="Pragmatic fallacy">Pragmatic fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Selection_bias" title="Selection bias">Selection bias</a> • <a href="/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence" title="Anecdotal evidence">Anecdotal evidence</a> • <a href="/wiki/Category_mistake" title="Category mistake">Category mistake</a> • <a href="/wiki/Nutpicking" title="Nutpicking">Nutpicking</a> • <a href="/wiki/Imprecision_fallacy" title="Imprecision fallacy">Imprecision fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Confounding_factor" title="Confounding factor">Confounding factor</a> • <a href="/wiki/Fallacy_of_accident" title="Fallacy of accident">Fallacy of accident</a> • <a href="/wiki/Neyman%27s_bias" title="Neyman's bias">Neyman's bias</a> • </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" style="background:#009761; width:25%; text-align:right;"><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Valid_logical_methods" title="Category:Valid logical methods"><span style="color:white; font-size:125%">Valid logical methods:</span></a></b> </td> <td style="background:#FFFFFF;"> <a href="/wiki/Rapoport%27s_Rules" title="Rapoport's Rules">Rapoport's Rules</a> • <a href="/wiki/Negative_evidence" title="Negative evidence">Negative evidence</a> • <a href="/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum" title="Reductio ad absurdum">Reductio ad absurdum</a> • </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" style="background:#009761; width:25%; text-align:right;"><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Fallacy_collections" title="Category:Fallacy collections"><span 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