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Re: Update to Godwin's Law?
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 23:23:18 -0400
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:57:46 -0800, "Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" said:
Idle thought as I read this: is "terrorist" the new "Nazi"?
No, "terrorist" is one of the Four Horsemen of the Internet, the invocation of which is used to justify evil things (the other 3 being drug dealers, copyright violators, and child pornographers).
(My wife recently noted that a number of news stories are using "facist" as a synonym for "Islamic fundamentalist.")
There are those who have a vested interest in pointing repeatedly at the foreign countries run by Islamic fundamentalist whack-jobs, to draw attention away from those countries run by Judeo-Christian fundamentalist whack-jobs....
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