Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 18:16:48 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: "Godwin's Law" & "Good Germans" was  Re: David Dance?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> dicconf at radix.net 10/27/2006 12:24:05 PM >>>
>
>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.

Point taken.

mjw