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Originally Posted by Tichy
It's a circular argument form of a very rare type. It actually requires two arguers.
It goes approximately like this:
Arguer A: Your guy's a fascist!
Arguer B: No! Your guy's a fascist!
Repeat.
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Actually, IMHO, it goes more this way:
A: My guy wants to help the poor and lower taxes! And he loves animals so much he became vegetarian!
B: Hey, you know who else lowered taxes? Hitler! And he was also vegetarian! Your guy's exactly like Hitler so! He's gonna put on a Nazist regime, kill the innocents etc. etc.
Totally illogical of course, but of great effect on the weak minds (Star Wars FTW) as every logical fallacy.
This one is often used currently against Atheists. I met and heard people saying that Nazism did what he did because Hitler was atheist
Of course "forgetting" the motto -Gott mit uns- and Hitler's famous speech
"Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord."; the "German Reich Christian Church" he established in 1933 etc...
Not of course that one would say that he did his utterly evil actions because he was Christian or whatever, it would be crazy c'mon
But many today like to go anti-atheism going for "Stalin and Hitler were mass-murder tyrants because they didn't believe in God"
I'm not even atheist but you know, some things should really p*ss off any rational being.
Long OT, sorry ^^