{"id":7487,"date":"2016-11-23T11:19:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T15:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/?p=7487"},"modified":"2016-11-23T08:24:51","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T12:24:51","slug":"the-repeal-of-godwins-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2016\/11\/the-repeal-of-godwins-law.html","title":{"rendered":"The repeal of Godwin&#8217;s law"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Has apparently happened. \u00a0We\u2019re hearing that we\u2019ve elected a fascist, Nazi, white supremacist bent on concentration camps and genocide. \u00a0And this time we mean it! \u00a0Anyway, I have no problem looking at history to learn about the present to avoid problems in the future. \u00a0And Germany, c. 1930s, is fair game. \u00a0 Nonetheless, for the more hysteric comparisons, <a href=\"http:\/\/darwincatholic.blogspot.com\/2016\/11\/bad-historical-analogies-us-is-not.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Darwin Catholic brings a little bit of sanity into the mix<\/a> by reminding us about those important differences between us today and Germany then.<\/p>\n<p>Hat Tip to Donald McClarey.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has apparently happened. \u00a0We\u2019re hearing that we\u2019ve elected a fascist, Nazi, white supremacist bent on concentration camps and genocide. \u00a0And this time we mean it! \u00a0Anyway, I have no problem looking at history to learn about the present to avoid problems in the future. \u00a0And Germany, c. 1930s, is fair game. \u00a0 Nonetheless, for the 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