The Trouble With Nazis

Godwin's law, short for Godwin's law (or rule) of Nazi analogies,is an Internet adage asserting that as an online discussion grows longer (regardless of topic or scope), the probability of a comparison to Nazis or Adolf Hitler increases to near certainty.

I have some trouble with individuals flippantly making Nazi analogies.  Or associating those who behave badly with Nazis.  Fundamentally, it is lazy thinking.  A cop-out.  Not every bad actor is necessarily a Nazi.  Nevertheless, it hasn't stopped congresswoman, thinker of lazy thoughts and championship Trump supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene.

From MAGA land and the Trump-Putin wing of the GOP there is this:

NATO has been supplying the neo-Nazis in Ukraine with powerful weapons and extensive training on how to use them. What the hell is going with these #NATONazis?

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA)

March 2022  ·  Quote Source

Greene, Trump, Putin and their Kremlin apologists call for the deNazification of Ukraine -- and ironically advocate Nazi-like methods to do so. 

 

Russia has applied such methods in Mariupol and Bucha.  War crimes like rape, torture, murder and the indiscriminate slaughter of civilian noncombatants to terrorize the population into submission.

 

Perhaps Greene and Trump need to be mindful that Putin's mind works like this - every Ukrainian who has taken up arms against Russia's aggression must be eliminated.  

 

Rubbed-out.  

 

By definition, the Soviet de-Nazification campaign means the destruction of the idea of Ukraine and its national identity.  It calls for the elimination of the country’s political elite and the infliction of all of the horrors of war on Ukraine “as a historical lesson and atonement for their guilt.”

 

As a consequence should not Greene, Trump and Putin be wary of channeling Nazi analogies?

 

Not surprisingly Nazi's are sociopaths.

 

All of them....