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by striking 3785 days ago
> Educate yourself before you throw Godwins around.

He's not invoking Hitler or Nazism, he's making a comparison between white privilege and anti-semitism. It's pertinent because of whites and Jews being races; it's not just a random invocation of whatever to win an argument. Not all anti-semites are Nazis. There are plenty of otherwise normal people who just randomly hate Jews for literally no reason.

There's a point there, and I think you missed it. (Please note I am not arguing for or against that point, just that you may have missed it.)

I also appreciate the "Educate yourself" thought-terminating cliche. It's an interesting one.

If you call an argument Godwinesque but turn out to be wrong, who has lost the argument?