Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 00:01:23 -0400
From: Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: David Dance?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Eric Jablow wrote:

>  On Oct 26, 2006, at 10:38 PM, Ted White wrote:
>
> > encouraging it, albeit that wasn't their intention.  I call people
> > who take this position "Good Germans."
>
>  Can we not invoke Godwin's Law?

It is by far the most appropriate and meaningful comparison.  Ignoring
bad things and hoping they'd go away *epitomized* the "Good Germans."
It's what the phrase *means*.  And I'm ghoddamned sick and tired of
hearing people invoke "Godwin's Law" like a knee jerk.  What in hell
good was Nazi Germany if not as an object lesson for humanity and
history?  To reflexively ignore the aptness of such comparisons is
indeed to try to ignore a bad thing and hope it will go away.

But then, I lived through World War II.  It may have been a lot more
real for me.

--Ted White