Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:24:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: "Godwin's Law" & "Good Germans" was  Re: David Dance?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Michael Walsh wrote:

>> ejablow at cox.net 10/26/2006 10:51:12 PM >>>
>>
>> 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?
>
> 1.  If so, how would you have Ted make his point?

By giving his description of how bullies thrive on the inattention of
those with authority/power to stop them, and conclude with something
like "they think they are dealing with the problem but actually they are
encouraging it or at least letting it continue as badly as ever".  The
comparison of ignoring a schoolyard bully to ignoring the rise and crimes
of the Nazis is a ridiculously overblown comparison.

-- Dick Eney