# Proposed Corollary to Godwin's Law

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 4, 2017, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proposed-corollary-to-godwins-law/797926 "2017-10-04T06:56:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2017, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proposed-corollary-to-godwins-law/797926/12 "2017-10-04T16:04:30Z")

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> [@Is there a version of "Godwin's Law" in Europe?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-version-of-godwins-law-in-europe/796425/6):
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> Godwin’s Law isn’t a law as much as an observation.
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> It’s the observation that when one or both sides are resorting to _literally the most inflammatory insults they can think of_, the discussion is over and it’s now just a shouting match. He just used “Nazis” as a convenient example of a group which was, in his mind, universally loathed in his social context. In other contexts, it could be “gays” or “Christians” or “Muslims” or “cishets” or any other identifiable category.
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> **The group doesn’t matter. The intense vitriol matters.**

So mentioning Clinton, or Obama, or anyone else in the same fashion is already Godwin’s Law as it was originally intended.

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