[lit-ideas] Re: Paying taxes for months on end
- From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 23:33:22 +0100
Saturday, May 28, 2005, 8:06:29 PM, Phil Enns wrote:
PE> Judy Evans wrote:
PE> "so it is inappropriate, even perhaps rhetorical overreach, to cite
PE> [Godwin's] Law in reply to John."
PE> Not at all. It is shorthand for saying that there is little to gain
PE> from pursuing a conversation that reaches the point of including
PE> references to Nazis. As John himself noted, it needn't have been
PE> included but the rhetorical move is obvious: Have one's interlocutor, in
PE> this case myself, defend the Nazis.
Bizarre. Your reading, that is.
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