Godwin's Law/Quotes

"LuigiMaster: It's especially depressing too that I looked up to you and you react like a fucking Nazi. Robert The Small: Because making fun of someone is equal to killing jews."

- A MUGEN Genesis Forum Conversation

""Feminazi.""

- Rush Limbaugh

""The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.'""

- George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language", 1946

""As soon as you label me, or anyone, a bigot, with nothing to support such a toxic charge, you lose the argument. ""

- Robert Avrech

"Informant: General, Italian forces have entered Egypt. General: As I expected. This is a foolish move by Mussolini, but like Hitler he will no doubt force his commanders to-- Informant: Hey, Godwin's Law. General: Dammit. *Beat* You know, this may become a problem."

- Xkcd, Regarding Mussolini

"''I was waiting to see how long it would take the increasingly hysterical fans on the Wilco site to mention Volkswagen’s checkered past. It happened on page 11 of the thread and then flared up big time... Oh. My. God. Jeff Tweedy IS a Nazi!! Oh crap, now I see that the people condemning him were absolutely right, he has sold us all out! I bet marrying my Jewish sister was just a ruse to further his white supremacist agenda. All that liberal twaddle he spouts at his concerts is just a front ... Dammit, that’s the last time that turncoat comes to our Yom Kippur services!...Have I ruined my chance to get a free Volkswagen?"

- Danny Miller (Tweedy's brother-in-law), in response to a thread complaining about Wilco songs in VW ads.

"Krebs: In most countries of the world your name is synonymous with pure evil. In Germany itself it is basically illegal to say your name out loud. Few would argue that you remain the most infamous and ruthless dictator the world has ever seen. Hitler: I don't care about that shit. I want to know what the Americans think about me. Krebs: Mein Führer... The people... Jodl: The people in America call everybody they disagree with "Hitler" to the point that it's completely trite and meaningless. Hitler: ... Hitler: Do you have any idea how hard I have worked!? To become the most singularly evil person to have lived!? To be, for generations to come, the most feared and repellent figure on Earth!? I cannot believe this shit. Tell me what these fucking Americans are saying. What, do you think you need to protect me? That I can't handle it? I am the Prince of Darkness! I was belched from the fiery depths of hell! Bugdorf: The Democrats call conservative activists "brownshirts" and claim they wear Swastikas! Hitler: Fucking hell! The people with those little "Don't Tread On Me" flags? Bugdorf: And everybody draws your little moustache on their political opponents. Hitler: You cannot be fucking serious. I have been wearing this ridiculous thing for years... So that it might be the very symbol of evil! Not some convenient talisman for unthinking Americans. What good is it being this boundlessly evil? Systematically killing everybody who disagrees with you just to be turned into a cartoon character like fucking Lex Luthor!? To think I could have had a normal moustache all along like Stalin! I have had it with these Americans. If they cannot tell the difference between a genocidal maniac and those fucking teabaggers they can all go to hell!"

- Hitler finds out Americans are calling each other Nazis (a ''Downfall Gag Sub where Hitler's goons inform him about his Villain Decay at the hands of American protesters using this trope)

"I realize that you're just stating an opinion, but what you're doing is going back to World War II all over again. Hitler wanting to erase Jews from society -- you want to erase Justin Bieber..."

- A Justin Bieber fan responds to the creation of a tool for blocking him on the internet.

"You know the rule - all debate ends when it gets to Hitler."

- Gotham Central

""I mean, that's the morality of the Holocaust. 'Well, it's only a small percentage,' you know. 'I mean, it's not you, it's somebody else.'""

- Grover Norquist, on the inheritance tax.

""I can't imagine Arizonans now reverting to German Nazi and Russian Communist techniques whereby people are required to turn one another in to the authorities on any suspicion of documentation.""

- Cardinal Roger Mahony on the Arizona immigration law.

""And what hyperbolic discussion is complete without bringing in Hitler?""

- Cracked, 6 Innocent-Sounding Topics That Are Guaranteed Flame Wars" (4 of the examples have Godwin's Law demonstrations!)

""Hitler was a good person among his friends (if he had any), maybe he didn't mean to do what he did as well?""

- A YouTube comment in response to David Beckham's defense of Thierry Henry's handball.

""You're a fascist Mr. Bush! Resign!"

- Keith Olbermann, special comment in 2007.

"Re, re, re your post, Gently down the thread ''Hitler and Stalin and Godwin and Nazis Now the horse is dead..."

- "ClassicDrogn", on the Drunkard's Walk Forums, 2/26/06

"Ratbert: I'm debating on the internet! Ha ha! I'm winning every argument by saying the same thing! Dilbert: What's that? Ratbert: "How would you like it if Hitler killed you?" Dilbert: (annoyed) Hey, I debated you last night!"

- Dilbert, 28 October 2006

"Peters: You sound like Charles Lindbergh in 1938 saying Hitler hasn’t attacked us. Tucker: I beg your pardon? Slow down. You cannot compare me to somebody who makes apologies for Hitler. And I don’t think Putin is comparable. Peters: I think Putin is. Tucker: I think it is a grotesque overstatement actually. I think it’s insane."

- Tucker Carlson Tonight (transcript from here

"Wait, I thought Assad was Hitler today? Or is it Milo Yiannopoulos? It would be helpful if there was some sort of Hitler du jour mailing list to which we could all subscribe and thereby be assured of remaining up to date on the current Hitler."

- Vox Day, commenting on the above in Bitchslapping the neocons

"It's truly quite a conundrum; once you've gone full Nazi, any further elaboration of your argument only softens the insult. So you're stuck saying "Nazi Nazi Nazi" over and over with no variation."

- zombietime explains the problem

"The foolishness of that comment is so deep, I can only ascribe it to higher education. You have to have gone to college to say something that stupid."

- Dennis Prager, on Penn & Teller's Bullshit!, commenting on PETA's comparison of the consumption of animals to the Holocaust.

From The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
"Jon: You know who was Hitler?... Hitler!"

- On Hitler references

"It's "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon", except there's just one degree, and Kevin Bacon is Hitler."

- Lewis Black, on Glenn Beck's frequent invocation of the Nazis

"Don't have time to make a protest sign? We've got you covered. We have "I disagree with you but I'm pretty sure you're not Hitler"..."

- Announcing the Rally to Restore Sanity.

"Jon:...wait, your advice for my rally to restore sanity is to copy Hitler!?! Larry Wilmore: Hey, that's what they're gonna call you anyway!"

- On points of style for mass rallies.

""See? Y'see what he did right there? He set up the moral equivalency between ending the filibuster and...the HOLOCAUST!""

- Jon Stewart on Godwin's Law

Ur Example
""Previously the Mormons had been denominating Indians to be the 'Lost Tribes of Israel'. Hitler is kidnapping them.""

- John Collier, on Goebbels' claim that the Sioux were Aryan