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Problem is with Godwin's law is that if you really are arguing with a Nazi
who is really spouting Nazi rhetoric etc and you call him/her/it a Nazi you
lose even if you are 100% correct. hence that law can only be used when the
person you confront has not issued racist slurs etc .... so that law really
has no teeth does it

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"Dave Bell" > wrote in message
rea.net...
> On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Scott wrote:
>
> > In article . net>,
> > Dave Bell > wrote:
> >
> > > We've come perilously close to invoking Godwin's Law(q.v.) here...

> >
> > Not really. No reference to Hitler or the Nazis was made, but there WAS
> > a post that inappropriately singled out a religious group and attacked
> > it with slurs. Labeling that post bigoted isn't the same as invoking
> > Godwin's law.

>
> I only said "close"! :{)