Godwin's Law, dating back to 1990 when Usenet discussion groups were a precursor of what the World Wide Web was to become, stated that, "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1."

A corollary, which Godwin personally approved, was that "in many newsgroups and other Internet discussion forums that once such a comparison is made, the thread is finished and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically 'lost' whatever debate was in progress."

It is now 65 years since the Nazis were defeated and such analogies have lost their force, but such a force is still required. Therefore I nominate the citing of Fox News as being the 21st century equivalent of Godwin's 20th century Nazis. I am not suggesting that Fox and Nazis are anything alike except in the respect that Fox fits well into the corollary of Godwin's law mentioned above:

Once a citation from Fox News is used to support a position, the thread is finished and whoever mentioned Fox has automatically lost.

Opinions?

Originally Posted by roadkill

I am not suggesting that Fox and Nazis are anything alike

you're not? what a shame.

how might one make an argument that fox and the nazis *were* alike, without being doubly skewered by godwin? hmm.

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Psyche,

I thought I rather finessed that, subtly leaving readers with the distinct impression that they are.

If I failed, you are welcome to suggest an improvement.

i double bluffed you darling

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Well, Fox News (often known as Faux News) is not exactly the best representative of the US media any more than Sky News is of the British media.

As I regard Godwin's Law as not a law but just a piece of prejudiced posturing by people who don't want to fes up to what the Nazis or their sympathisers did or advocate today I can't see the point in extending a bad law to make another bad one!

(Maybe I should post my poem on the porajmos!?