Monday, May 20, 2019

Sallis’ Law vs. Godwin’s Law

A comparison.

"As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1"; that is, if an online discussion (regardless of topic or scope) goes on long enough, sooner or later someone will compare someone or something to Adolf Hitler or his deeds, the point at which effectively the discussion or thread often ends.
Following up on this, let us rewrite the above into Sallis’ ‘Law:
"As a "movement" discussion grows longer, the probability of someone commenting about racial admixture in Southern Europeans and/or Eastern Europeans approaches 1"; that is, if a “movement” discussion (regardless of topic or scope) goes on long enough, sooner or later (typically sooner) someone will question the “Whiteness” of Southern Europeans and/or Eastern Europeans, the point at which effectively the discussion or thread descends into Nordicism, ethnic fetishism, and fossilized “movement” dogma.
No matter what the topic – Jews, the weather, Babe Ruth’s batting average, the thrust of the Saturn V rocket’s first stage, the price of tea in China – any “movement” discussion will eventually converge onto racial admixture in Southern and Eastern Europe.  It is inevitable, inescapable, expected.

Sallis’ Law is stronger than Godwin’s Law, since it will be, on average, actualized much sooner in the discussion.  After all, what is more fundamental to Der Movement, Inc. than animus toward, and lies about, Southern and Eastern Europeans?









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