# What were you THINKING?

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**Created:** [October 13, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532 "2023-10-13T19:36:53Z")\
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And Crane’s back at it in the Hamas/Israel MPISMS thread, going out of his way to find the most loaded, anti-Semitic analogy possible to discuss the ongoing war crimes in Gaza.

> [@Discussion thread for the Hamas Attacks Israel thread, October 2023](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-hamas-attacks-israel-thread-october-2023/991317/4630):
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> Israel in Gaza dwarfs Lidice as the icon of brutality.

When you baselessly compare your opponents to Nazis, that’s Godwinizing. What do you call it when you routinely drag Nazis into unrelated discussions _in order to imply that the Nazis weren’t so bad after all?_

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