History Quotes / GodwinsLaw

-->''"It will be seen that, as used, the word ‘Fascism’ is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print. I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox-hunting, bull-fighting, the 1922 Committee, the 1941 Committee, Kipling, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, homosexuality, Priestley’s broadcasts, Youth Hostels, astrology, women, dogs and I do not know what else."''

--> '''Rosalyn:''' It's my job to watch you, and that's what I'm going to do, even if I have to strap you to a chair. Got it?\\

--> ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', [[http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1987/10/09 10/9/1987]]

->''"I agree with him a hundred percent, right down to his comparison of stuff like this to the same thing that led [[MediaWatchdog Concerned Parents™]] to blame the decline of Western civilization on ''ComicBook/TalesFromTheCrypt'' after ''[[UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode Seduction of the Innocent]]'' was published. That said, I think he might be overselling things just a little bit here when he gets around to comparing kids who play video games to the twenty people who were executed for witchcraft in 1692. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll agree that it’s the same kind of fearmongering, but I’m reasonably sure that no one in Ohio was crushed to death under a pile of stones for refusing to admit that they bought ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto''.\\\

->''"Homosexuality gave us Adolph Hitler, and homosexuals in the military gave us the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war machine and six million dead Jews. Gays in the military is an experiment that has been tried and found disastrously and tragically wanting. Maybe it's time for Congress to learn a lesson from history."''
-->--'''Bryan Fischer''' on Don't Ask, Don't Tell

-->--'''Ted Kaczynski''', '''Charles Manson''', and '''Fidel Castro''' [!!], 2012 Heartland Institute campaign

->''"Lois also calls LexLuthor a fascist. Good grief...I have [[WithFriendsLikeThese FRIENDS]], best buddies, who have done stuff worse to me than Lex has, and I wouldn't call them fascists. Fascists burn people in ovens and take over countries. Lex, if anything, is a lasseiz-faire businessman with questionable ethics who once tortured [[ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} a semi-aquatic superhero]] that anyone with any respect for what such cheesy characters do to the comic genre might have tortured as well."''

'''Wickfield'' ''(Angry again)'': Now! Now!\\

-->'''Cindy Lou''': My Daddy says he won't argue the rights or wrongs of it, but that the class he was born to is the class he wants to survive.\\

->''"You know the rule -- all debate ends when it gets to Hitler."''

->''"I agree with him a hundred percent, right down to his comparison of stuff like this to the same thing that led [[MediaWatchdog Concerned Parents™]] to blame the decline of Western civilization on ''{{Tales From the Crypt}}'' after ''[[ComicsCode Seduction of the Innocent]]'' was published. That said, I think he might be overselling things just a little bit here when he gets around to comparing kids who play video games to the twenty people who were executed for witchcraft in 1692. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll agree that it’s the same kind of fearmongering, but I’m reasonably sure that no one in Ohio was crushed to death under a pile of stones for refusing to admit that they bought ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto''.\\\

->''"“Just as the Nazis had to create a Jewish conspiracy as a way to justify mass slaughter, so feminists have to create patriarchy as a way to justify mass slaughter of innocent unborn, and the destruction of men and masculinity."''
-->--'''Alculn'''

->''"This month’s adventures into mopiness kick off with a week-long storyline where two guys sit around complaining about the hysteria that surrounds [[MurderSimulators violent video games]]...I am totally with [Tom] Batiuk on this one. I agree with him a hundred percent, right down to his comparison of stuff like this to the same thing that led [[MediaWatchdog Concerned Parents™]] to blame the decline of Western civilization on ''{{Tales From the Crypt}}'' after ''[[ComicsCode Seduction of the Innocent]]'' was published. That said, I think he might be overselling things just a little bit here when he gets around to comparing kids who play video games to the twenty people who were executed for witchcraft in 1692. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll agree that it’s the same kind of fearmongering, but I’m reasonably sure that no one in Ohio was crushed to death under a pile of stones for refusing to admit that they bought ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto''.\\\

->''"Most of us are so used to [[Music/KanyeWest Kanye]] filling our heads with [[EccentricMillionaire dried dingles of delusion]], if he said, [='=]''I AM LIKE THE JEWS AND THE PAPARAZZI ARE LIKE HITLER''[='=], we’d just roll our eyes a little to the left and continue chewing our breakfast sandwich. Kanye doesn’t compare the paparazzi to Hitler, but he does say that being a celebrity today is like being black in the 1960s. Either I wasn’t totally paying attention during the lesson on the CivilRightsMovement in the 6th grade or Kanye’s brain has been switched with that of a dead sloth, because I somehow missed the part where black people were given Givenchy gowns to wear to their protests and instead of getting attacked by police dogs and beaten by racists, they had their picture taken and were asked to sign autographs. I was taught wrong! The American education system is really leaving every child behind. Kuntye should be named Secretary of Education, so he can teach the children how history really went."''

->''"Michael Moriarty is probably most famous as a stage and screen actor (a central role in the ''Series/LawAndOrder'' show), and somewhat famous as a jazz musician, but has also made a mark as a political writer, describing himself both as a “centrist” and as a realist”. It is doubtful that anyone else would use either description of him.\\\
Most of his writings seems to be focused on his opposition to abortion (as well as stem cell research), calling Roe v. Wade “despotic”, which is not a very apt description regardless of whether one agrees with the decision or not. But of course, it is easy to see where it comes from: Moriarty doesn’t like legalized abortion, and he doesn’t like despotism, [[InsaneTrollLogic so therefore legalized abortion is despotism]]...and the evidence Obama is a Marxist? Well, Moriarty doesn’t like Obama and he doesn’t like Marxism, therefore … you know how it goes."''

->''"Theodore Beale [[TheFundamentalist cannot be controlled]]. That’s what being a rabid dog means, really, and why there’s a generally agreed upon course of treatment for one. But I’d like to point to a telling moment in ''[Larry]'' Correia’s apologia, in which he said, “Look at it like this. I’m Churchill. Brad ''[Torgersen]'' is FDR. We wound up on the same side as Stalin.”\\\
There are two things to say about this. The first is ''“wait, if you’re Churchill, Torgersen is FDR, and Beale is Stalin, then in this analogy, the people who thought the {{Hugo Award}}s were fine the way they were are…”'' The second is somewhat less glib: how, exactly, did anyone “wind up” here? One does not simply “wind up” allied to Josef Stalin. This is a process that requires some effort. It is a process during which one is afforded many opportunities to stop and say ''“wait a moment, [[AnalogyBackfire I seem to be allying with Josef Stalin]], maybe I should reconsider my life choices.”''"''

->''"I haven't used that term on this program in years. But it still gets to 'em, doesn't it? And you know why? Because it's right. Because it's accurate."''
-->--'''Radio/RushLimbaugh''' on "Feminazis" (Although he [[{{Troll}} never actually stopped]] using the term)

->''"Hitler came to power against the strong feminist movement in Germany, padlocked the family planning clinics, and declared abortion a crime against the state--all views that [[{{Hypocrite}} more closely resemble Rush Limbaugh's.]]"''
-->--'''Gloria Steinem'''

->''"You're a fascist, Mr. [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush Bush]]! Resign!"''
-->--'''[[Series/CountdownWithKeithOlbermann Keith Olbermann]]''', special comment in 2007.

->''"Theodore Beale [[TheFundamentalist cannot be controlled]]. That’s what being a rabid dog means, really, and why there’s a generally agreed upon course of treatment for one. But I’d like to point to a telling moment in [Larry] Correia’s apologia, in which he said, “Look at it like this. I’m Churchill. Brad ''[Torgersen]'' is FDR. We wound up on the same side as Stalin.”\\\

->''"Most of us are so used to [[Music/KanyeWest Kanye]] filling our heads with [[EccentricMillionare dried dingles of delusion]], if he said, [='=]''I AM LIKE THE JEWS AND THE PAPARAZZI ARE LIKE HITLER''[='=], we’d just roll our eyes a little to the left and continue chewing our breakfast sandwich. Kanye doesn’t compare the paparazzi to Hitler, but he does say that being a celebrity today is like being black in the 1960s. Either I wasn’t totally paying attention during the lesson on the CivilRightsMovement in the 6th grade or Kanye’s brain has been switched with that of a dead sloth, because I somehow missed the part where black people were given Givenchy gowns to wear to their protests and instead of getting attacked by police dogs and beaten by racists, they had their picture taken and were asked to sign autographs. I was taught wrong! The American education system is really leaving every child behind. Kuntye should be named Secretary of Education, so he can teach the children how history really went."''

->The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.'

->You know the rule -- all debate ends when it gets to Hitler.

->It's 'Six Degrees of Creator/KevinBacon', except there's just one degree, and Kevin Bacon is Hitler.

->NAZI GERMANY? Why, that's my LEAST FAVORITE kind of Germany! You got your regular Germany, your [[UsefulNotes/WeimarRepublic Weimar Germany]], your Visigoths, your [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Hasselhoffs]], but oh my God, Ted Cruz says we're at '''''DEFCON NAZI!'''''

->This week, a Georgia congressman said, ''"I'm not comparing [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Obama]] to Adolf Hitler. What I'm saying is [[NoExceptYes there's the potential of going down that road.]]"'' Well, Congressman, I'm not comparing your head to a butt-plug, but it does seem to spend a lot of time up your ass.

->I mean, if you want to have a gay wedding, fine, go ahead. If I don’t want to bake you a cake for your gay wedding, that’s okay too. Or should be. [[{{Newspeak}} That’s called tolerance.]] But when you try and force me to bake a cake for your gay wedding and threaten me with prison if I don’t, that’s called fascism.

->This conversation proves that the only thing dumber than an argument on the internet is the same argument in real life.

->But that's good because 'Godwin' includes 'God' and 'win'. So, when you post a picture of Hitler in front of an article, you can say 'In the name of '''God''', I '''win''' the argument.' Godwin's point.

->This month’s adventures into mopiness kick off with a week-long storyline where two guys sit around complaining about the hysteria that surrounds [[MurderSimulators violent video games]]...I am totally with [Tom] Batiuk on this one. I agree with him a hundred percent, right down to his comparison of stuff like this to the same thing that led [[MediaWatchdog Concerned Parents™]] to blame the decline of Western civilization on ''{{Tales From the Crypt}}'' after ''[[ComicsCode Seduction of the Innocent]]'' was published. That said, I think he might be overselling things just a little bit here when he gets around to comparing kids who play video games to the twenty people who were executed for witchcraft in 1692. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll agree that it’s the same kind of fearmongering, but I’m reasonably sure that no one in Ohio was crushed to death under a pile of stones for refusing to admit that they bought ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto''.\\\
Then again, it just wouldn’t be ''Funky Winkerbean'' without a conversation [[TheEeyore turning inevitably to historical murder.]]

->Lois also calls LexLuthor a fascist. Good grief...I have [[WithFriendsLikeThese FRIENDS]], best buddies, who have done stuff worse to me than Lex has, and I wouldn't call them fascists. Fascists burn people in ovens and take over countries. Lex, if anything, is a lasseiz-faire businessman with questionable ethics who once tortured [[ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} a semi-aquatic superhero]] that anyone with any respect for what such cheesy characters do to the comic genre might have tortured as well.

->Most of us are so used to [[Music/KanyeWest Kanye]] filling our heads with [[DelusionsOfGrandeur dried dingles of delusion]], if he said, [='=]''I AM LIKE THE JEWS AND THE PAPARAZZI ARE LIKE HITLER''[='=], we’d just roll our eyes a little to the left and continue chewing our breakfast sandwich. Kanye doesn’t compare the paparazzi to Hitler, but he does say that being a celebrity today is like being black in the 1960s. Either I wasn’t totally paying attention during the lesson on the CivilRightsMovement in the 6th grade or Kanye’s brain has been switched with that of a dead sloth, because I somehow missed the part where black people were given Givenchy gowns to wear to their protests and instead of getting attacked by police dogs and beaten by racists, they had their picture taken and were asked to sign autographs. I was taught wrong! The American education system is really leaving every child behind. Kuntye should be named Secretary of Education, so he can teach the children how history really went.

->Michael Moriarty is probably most famous as a stage and screen actor (a central role in the ''Series/LawAndOrder'' show), and somewhat famous as a jazz musician, but has also made a mark as a political writer, describing himself both as a “centrist” and as a realist”. It is doubtful that anyone else would use either description of him.\\\
Most of his writings seems to be focused on his opposition to abortion (as well as stem cell research), calling Roe v. Wade “despotic”, which is not a very apt description regardless of whether one agrees with the decision or not. But of course, it is easy to see where it comes from: Moriarty doesn’t like legalized abortion, and he doesn’t like despotism, [[InsaneTrollLogic so therefore legalized abortion is despotism]]...and the evidence Obama is a Marxist? Well, Moriarty doesn’t like Obama and he doesn’t like Marxism, therefore … you know how it goes.

->Oh. My. God. Jeff Tweedy IS a Nazi!! Oh crap, now I see that the people condemning him were absolutely right, he has sold us all out! I bet marrying my Jewish sister was just a ruse to further his white supremacist agenda. All that liberal twaddle he spouts at his concerts is just a front ... Dammit, that’s the last time that turncoat comes to our Yom Kippur services!

->Theodore Beale [[TheFundamentalist cannot be controlled]]. That’s what being a rabid dog means, really, and why there’s a generally agreed upon course of treatment for one. But I’d like to point to a telling moment in [Larry] Correia’s apologia, in which he said, “Look at it like this. I’m Churchill. Brad [Torgersen] is FDR. We wound up on the same side as Stalin.”\\\
There are two things to say about this. The first is “wait, if you’re Churchill, Torgersen is FDR, and Beale is Stalin, then in this analogy, the people who thought the {{Hugo Award}}s were fine the way they were are…” The second is somewhat less glib: how, exactly, did anyone “wind up” here? One does not simply “wind up” allied to Josef Stalin. This is a process that requires some effort. It is a process during which one is afforded many opportunities to stop and say “wait a moment, [[AnalogyBackfire I seem to be allying with Josef Stalin]], maybe I should reconsider my life choices.”

->Hitler and the Nazis are an excellent all-purpose tool to demonize your opponents. Just compare them to Hitler! It’s easy! It’s also incredibly stupid in most cases. If you don’t believe me, just check out the last couple of times that I’ve seen anti-vaccinationists comparing their opponents to the Nazis or likening vaccine programs to the Holocaust.\\\
Yes, those two examples were really dumb, but I think I just found something even dumber. It’s an article by Hilary Butler. This time around, Ms. Butler pulls out all the stops, asking Are non vaccinators the “new Jews”? ...I’ll take ignorant historical analogies for $1,000, Alex.

->You're Hitler. Don't argue with me. I know you have an overwhelming urge to invade Poland right now.'

->This goes for any debate; if you're tempted to make comparisons to Hitler or Nazis or the Holocaust, you need to stop and re-examine what you're doing.

->Whatever its claims, Queen isn't here just to entertain. This group has come to make it clear exactly who is superior and who is inferior. Its anthem, 'We Will Rock You,' is a marching order: you ''will'' not rock us, we ''will'' rock you. Indeed, Queen may be the first truly fascist rock band. The whole thing makes me wonder why anyone would [[MediaWatchdog indulge these creeps and their polluting ideas.]]

->I haven't used that term on this program in years. But it still gets to 'em, doesn't it? And you know why? Because it's right. Because it's accurate.

->Hitler came to power against the strong feminist movement in Germany, padlocked the family planning clinics, and declared abortion a crime against the state--all views that [[{{Hypocrite}} more closely resemble Rush Limbaugh's.]]

->You're a fascist, Mr. [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush Bush]]! Resign!

->Recent European history alone ought to cause Jewish executives to experience second thoughts about glorifying the killing of the helpless as a fun lifestyle choice.

->Hitler decided that it was the only empathetic thing to do, to put this child down and put him out of his suffering. It was the beginning of the T4, which led to genocide everywhere. It was the beginning of it. Empathy leads you to very bad decisions many times.

->I mean, that's the morality of the Holocaust. 'Well, it's only a small percentage,' you know. 'I mean, it's not you, it's somebody else.'

->The EPA, the Gestapo of government, pure and simply [sic] has been one of the major claw-hooks that the government maintains on the backs of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive our constituents]].

->Homosexuality gave us Adolph Hitler, and homosexuals in the military gave us the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war machine and six million dead Jews. Gays in the military is an experiment that has been tried and found disastrously and tragically wanting. Maybe it's time for Congress to learn a lesson from history.

->I can't imagine Arizonans now reverting to German Nazi and Russian Communist techniques whereby people are required to turn one another in to the authorities on any suspicion of documentation.

->When we just saw that man, I think it was [PZ Myers], talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to get gassed …that’s where ''science'' leads you. Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place, and [[ScienceIsBad science leads you to killing people.]]

->Importantly, Hitler’s genocide was framed as a program “for the betterment of society” — the exact same words used in America today to justify forced vaccination of children.

->Soccer is like the metric system, which liberals also adore because it’s European. Naturally, the metric system emerged from the French Revolution, during the brief intervals when they weren’t committing mass murder by guillotine.

->Net Neutrality is the marxism of the tech world.

->Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta said people in America are not eating enough fruits and vegetables. They want all the power of the federal government to [[{{Unishment}} force you to eat more fruits and vegetables.]] This is what the federal CDC -- They ([[YouMakeMeSic sic]]) going to be calling people and finding out how many fruits and vegetables you eat (sic) today. This is socialism of the highest order!

->As soon as you label me, or anyone, a bigot, with nothing to support such a toxic charge, you lose the argument.

->Antiwar activists liked to try to tar UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush with the Hitler appellation, and, now that UsefulNotes/BarackObama is in power, right wing Tea Party types have an even greater tendency to try to paint (or to slime) Obama with the very same brush. So, from that perspective, I get it. Hitler and the Nazis are an excellent all-purpose tool to demonize your opponents. Just compare them to Hitler! It’s easy! It’s also incredibly stupid in most cases. If you don’t believe me, just check out the last couple of times that I’ve seen anti-vaccinationists comparing their opponents to the Nazis or likening vaccine programs to the Holocaust.\\\

There are two things to say about this. The first is “wait, if you’re Churchill, Torgersen is FDR, and Beale is Stalin, then in this analogy, the people who thought the {{Hugo Award}}s were fine the way they were are…” The second is somewhat less glib: how, exactly, did anyone “wind up” here? One does not simply “wind up” allied to Josef Stalin. This is a process that requires some effort. It is a process during which one is afforded many opportunities to stop and say “wait a moment, I seem to be allying with Josef Stalin, maybe I should reconsider my life choices.”

->Theodore Beale cannot be controlled. That’s what being a rabid dog means, really, and why there’s a generally agreed upon course of treatment for one. But I’d like to point to a telling moment in [Larry] Correia’s apologia, in which he said, “Look at it like this. I’m Churchill. Brad [Torgersen] is FDR. We wound up on the same side as Stalin.”\\\

-->--'''Tucker Carlson''' on "[[YouMayPanicNow liberal jihadists]]", ''[[Creator/FoxNewsChannel Special Report with Bret Baier]]''

-->--'''Tucker Carlson''' on "[[YouMayPanicNow liberal jihadists]]", ''Special Report with Bret Baier''

->NAZI GERMANY!? Why, that's my ''least favorite'' kind of Germany! You got your regular Germany, your [[UsefulNotes/WeimarRepublic Weimar Germany]], your Visigoths, your [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Hasselhoffs]], but oh my God, Ted Cruz says we're at '''''DEFCON NAZI!'''''