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by sourcepluck 545 days ago

  > Reductio ad Hitlerum (Latin for "reduction to Hitler"), also known as playing the Nazi card, is an attempt to invalidate someone else's argument on the basis that the same idea was promoted or practised by Adolf Hitler or the Nazi Party.
I can't tell if you're being serious, or joking, or what. In any case, there's the actual definition, and I don't see how it applies whatsoever. I was not disagreeing with you in the first place? Perhaps there's simply a misunderstanding.

reduction ad hitlerum =/= "mentioning hitler in any way"

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Ok. Usually if someone suggests that you might laugh at a Mein Kampf quote in response to your argument, they are not doing it in good faith.