{"id":16321,"date":"2006-03-27T20:10:05","date_gmt":"2006-03-28T04:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2006\/03\/27\/reductio-ad-hitlerum.html"},"modified":"2006-03-27T20:10:05","modified_gmt":"2006-03-28T04:10:05","slug":"reductio-ad-hitlerum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2006\/03\/27\/reductio-ad-hitlerum\/","title":{"rendered":"reductio ad Hitlerum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I'm certainly familiar with the concept, but I hadn't previously encountered the phrase <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reductio_ad_Hitlerum\">reductio ad Hitlerum<\/a>, a phrase coined in 1950 by U of Chicago professor Leo Strauss to refer to arguments of the form \"Adolf Hitler or the Nazi party supported X; therefore X must be evil.\"<\/p>\n<p>See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.killfile.org\/~tskirvin\/faqs\/godwin.html\">Godwin's Law<\/a>, although that's only somewhat related.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m certainly familiar with the concept, but I hadn&#8217;t previously encountered the phrase reductio ad Hitlerum, a phrase coined in 1950 by U of Chicago professor Leo Strauss to refer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}