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When Mike Godwin came up with Godwin's law he just "wanted folks who glibly compared someone else to Hitler to think a bit harder about the Holocaust."

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Systematic separation of children from parents as a matter of policy does ring some alarm bells.

The words being used as well. I recall that in the preparation for the Rwandan genocide, the victim group was likened to vermin to dehumanise them (cockroaches, if I recall).

Mike Godwin:

> By all means, compare these shitheads to Nazis. Again and again. I'm with you.

https://twitter.com/sfmnemonic/status/896884949634232320?s=1...

Just shows that Mike Godwin isn't immune to his own law either. Everyone's bound to make a dumb Nazi comparison at one point or another.

Is it really a dumb comparison when it involves literal concentration camps?

Soviet Union also had concentration camps, Nazis don't have a monopoly on them.

So did the US, including at the same time the Nazis did, but also regularly, for a number of different populations, starting nearly a century before there was a Nazi Party.

Right, so there's a lot of horrific comparisons you could make. That doesn't mean the nazi comparison is invalid.

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