On Mon, 03 May 2010 13:43:47 -0400, Warp wrote:

> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> On Sun, 02 May 2010 02:46:04 -0400, Warp wrote:
> 
>> > Stephen <mca### [at] aoldotcom> wrote:
>> >> Good guess and said better than I could but I just don't want anyone
>> >> to live in a Nazi state.
>> > 
>> >   I think this is a genuine instance of Godwin's law.
> 
>> I think it's actually a genuine instance of *not* Godwinning a thread
>> by invoking the Nazis - it's a perfect example.
> 
>   No. Godwin's law says: "As an online discussion grows longer, the
> probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1."
> 
>   It's precisely a comparison which was not made to invoke the law, but
> came as a result of the discussion. In fact, I think there's someone
> else's corollary that says that a deliberate invocation of Godwin's law
> isn't.

Except that in Nazi Germany, this sort of thing is pretty much precisely 
what was done - racial profiling to identify those of Jewish (or other 
'undesirable') descent.

It's actually relevant to this discussion, not like other instances where 
a thread is Godwinned by a comparison that really is not realistic at all.

Jim

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