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Happy Godwin Day, From Our Home To Yours |
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| On the anniversary of Hitler's death, we Godwin ourselves silly | ||
 by Jewcy Staff, April 30, 2008 |
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Newsflash: Hitler is dead. In fact, today is the 63rd anniversary of his death. Alas, since World War II, Jewish discourse on absolutely every single matter of import to Jews has been crippled by the rhetoric of comparing perceived enemies and threats to Hitler. Whether it's intermarriage, Israel, matrilineal succession (i.e. "who is a Jew?"), whether Jews should retain their separateness, how America should deal with Iran, or whether we should care about Jeremiah Wright's sermons, again and again and again, Nazism and Hitlerism are invoked on every side.
In 1990, a guy named Mike Godwin noticed a similar problem in the online community Usenet. He formulated what's now known as Godwin's Law: "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." In the intervening eighteen years, Godwin's Law spread far beyond Usenet to became a bona fide Internet meme. It's now shorthand for any conversation riddled with useless comparisons to Hitler or the Nazis.
It's fine to be sensitive to the historical lessons of WWII, but the tragedy of Godwin's Law is that the Hitler fetish doesn't improve our understanding or insight into any problem. Instead, it diminishes our ability to discuss it. The preoccupation with Hitler and WWII prevents us from honestly considering the opposing side of any debate. We dehumanize our opponent as complicit in genocide, and isn't that very dehumanization and strawmanning and simplifying of people's motives...sort of like Hitler?
In honor of the anniversary of Hitler's death, we looked for some unexpected personalities to Godwin. It's surprisingly easy! More are on their way, so check back often.
Hitlery Rodham Clinton propels herself to power through bogus, distorted, simplified economic pandering targeted at the lowest common denominator of an electorate.
John Sidney Hitler McCain sees politics as a break in between wars and seeks to impose his country's values on the rest of world.
Santa Claus, Enemy of the Jews has at least half of the world’s children under his thumb and saturates the media with his own likeness, ideas, and philosophy.
Baraq Hitler-ssein Osama leads a frightening cult of personality.
Everyone at Columbia is accusing everyone else of Hitlerian tactics in honor of Israel's 60th anniversary.
Anthony Bourdain stereotypes minority groups as "persistent irritants" and "the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit."
Creator of Godwin's law, Mike Godwin, weighs in.
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anti-"Jewcy"
No doubt Hitler would be a fan of this website.
Anti-Israel, anti-Orthodox, pro-Arab terrorism, pro-intermarriage, (Jews need to mix with the superior gentiles to become better human beings). Oh yes, Hitler would love this place.
The "Jewcy" staff is a miserable group of stupid gentiles with some or no Jewish heritage. It's a fraud with the backing of anti-Judiasm groups for propaganda purposes. This place has nothing to do with Judaism.
Dan Garwood
So why do you read it?
So why do you read it?
Daniel Koffler
Dude, we thought it was a
Ismail
Guys, you promised me that
Guys, you promised me that you'd keep our little arrangement secret. It does us bloodthirsty anti-Semites little good if your masochistic little electronic rag is seen as anything but a spontaneous expression of Jewish self-loathing. Once the puppet strings are revealed, the camel's out of the bag and you're no good to us. How do we re-establish the caliphate if you guys fuck up like this?
We are merciful, so we will merely not send this month's checks to you. If you fail us again, though, heads will roll. No, really-heads will roll.
Itzig
Someone Is New To The Site, Nice
I joined without reading anything yet, seemed like a good thing to do..
I thought that "Jewcy" must be a joke, though I see that it may not be, it looks pretty good..
I was brought up as a Protestant Christian, but not any more.. Now I'm more or less At One With The Universe, or at least a microspeck in the Eye of the Universal Guy (no resemblance to any of the human Gods, not Yahweh, not Jesus, not Allah, etc).
People can believe whatever they like, but that doesn't affect the Objective Ultimate Reality..
Anyhow, I don't matter, and I'm not so sure about the other humans on the surface of this planet..
It is not acceptable to believe nonsense, and an awful lot of (you) humans believe nonsense..
Tradition is nice, but it seldom represents reality, it's just familiar and comfortable and promotes ancient myth, but people mistake myth for history and fact and they often can't tell the difference..
It is good to be free, and not overly influenced or controlled by all these ancient and not so ancient belief systems..
Itzig
Someone Is New To The Site, Nice
I joined without reading anything yet, seemed like a good thing to do..
I thought that "Jewcy" must be a joke, though I see that it may not be, it looks pretty good..
I was brought up as a Protestant Christian, but not any more.. Now I'm more or less At One With The Universe, or at least a microspeck in the Eye of the Universal Guy (no resemblance to any of the human Gods, not Yahweh, not Jesus, not Allah, etc).
People can believe whatever they like, but that doesn't affect the Objective Ultimate Reality..
Anyhow, I don't matter, and I'm not so sure about the other humans on the surface of this planet..
It is not acceptable to believe nonsense, and an awful lot of (you) humans believe nonsense..
Tradition is nice, but it seldom represents reality, it's just familiar and comfortable and promotes ancient myth, but people mistake myth for history and fact and they often can't tell the difference..
It is good to be free, and not overly influenced or controlled by all these ancient and not so ancient belief systems..
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