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Godwin's Law is supposed to demonstrate the reductive nature of comparing everything to Nazism, it's supposed to be a logical fallacy.



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The lazy mis-characterization of our border facilities as concentration camps is exactly what I'm talking about, while also being a wildly inappropriate comparison in a country with many Holocaust survivors.



"Our ancestors died because as Germany built towards genocide, companies like IBM powered & profited from their persecution

https://twitter.com/NeverAgainActn/status/116974370768966860...



I don't think you can retroactively change the meaning of a point you made decades earlier.


Get back to me in a quarter century.


Fair enough -- and if I claim that my statement doesn't actually apply to specific future circumstances in a way that supports my current personal beliefs feel free to ignore me.




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