35. Nazi on Trial 1: Can “just following orders” justify horrific crimes?
Bad People
BBC
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:54.6 | Have you ever heard of Godwin's law? |
| 0:58.4 | You sound just like Hitler |
| 1:01.2 | Exactly. It's an online version of what was previously called Reduccio ad Hitlorum, which I don't speak not |
| 1:07.2 | And so I probably mispronounced that but it's also known as playing the Nazi card or trying to describe it |
| 1:12.8 | Someone's ideas because the Nazis some you know thought something similar at some point even remotely so and it's usually used in ludicrous arguments like |
| 1:21.0 | Oh, you like highways. You know who else liked highways or the Autobahn |
| 1:27.4 | Nazis, so it's like like that |
| 1:30.0 | Yeah, but it's also now used by actual Nazis when you mention that they're actual Nazis |
| 1:36.1 | They're like, oh, so just because I want to eradicate a whole group of people and I have a swastik on my chest |
| 1:41.2 | You mentioned Nazis snowflake true |
| 1:44.9 | But Godwin's law is more, you know online as well and it's a sort of |
| 1:50.0 | Yeah, when it descends into a non-argument really and it's named after an American man whose name to Mike Godwin and he was an important figure in digital rights actually |
| 2:01.0 | So I found a discussion of this law from 1995 and this is actually a snapshot from the sort of if you will original |
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