Jay Honeck writes:

Is this some new variation on the "Hitler Rule"?

I believe the formal designation is Godwin's Law, named after Mike Godwin of
_Wired_ Magazine, who developed the law in 1990.

Once you start accusing someone of belonging to the KKK, the
opportunity for intelligent discussion is over.

Godwin's Law holds that the probability of a comparison of someone or
something to Nazis or Hitler approaches one as a discussion continues over
time.

It happens because people, in their zeal to present their debate opponents as
unconditionally evil, grab for the first concept of "total evil" that comes to
mind, and that is often the Nazis or Hitler, about whom few people have
anything less than bad to say. In recent years, child molesters and
pedophiles have sometimes been mentioned for the same purpose.

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