{"id":4412,"date":"2013-09-06T23:05:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T04:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4412"},"modified":"2013-09-06T23:05:17","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T04:05:17","slug":"ad-tyrannem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4412","title":{"rendered":"Ad tyrannem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/2013\/09\/glenn_beck.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4414\" alt=\"glenn_beck\" src=\"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/2013\/09\/glenn_beck-300x225.jpg\" width=\"302\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/2013\/09\/glenn_beck-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/2013\/09\/glenn_beck.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OK, the old <a href=\"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3729\">Godwin&#8217;s Law<\/a> observation with<a href=\"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=2114\"><em> Ad Hitlerem<\/em><\/a> is standard.\u00c2\u00a0 And we&#8217;ve here noted the <a href=\"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4365\"><em>Ad Stalinem<\/em><\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 But Glenn Beck just used, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/08\/magazine\/glenn-beck-wants-to-know-why-cant-we-all-just-get-along.html?_r=0\">his NYT interview<\/a>, <em><\/em>an analogy with Mao Tse-Tung with similar effect.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00c2\u00a0I think these guys (progressives) are the biggest danger in the world. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the people like Mao, people that believe that big government is the answer, it always leads to millions dead \u00e2\u20ac\u201d always.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For sure, Hitler analogies deserve their own name, but they are of a specific class of arguments by analogy roughly captured as the argument by analogy with some tyrant, so I&#8217;ve proposed <em>Ad Tyrannem <\/em>as the general class.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, another irony is that not but a paragraph up from the implication that progressives will be putting people to death, Beck wishes that the American people could just get along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, the old Godwin&#8217;s Law observation with Ad Hitlerem is standard.\u00c2\u00a0 And we&#8217;ve here noted the Ad Stalinem.\u00c2\u00a0 But Glenn Beck just used, in his NYT interview, an analogy with Mao Tse-Tung with similar effect. \u00c2\u00a0I think these guys (progressives) are the biggest danger in the world. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the people like Mao, people that believe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4412\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ad tyrannem<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,23],"tags":[740,1718,913],"class_list":["post-4412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ad-hominem","category-weak-analogy","tag-ad-hitlerium","tag-ad-stalinem","tag-argumentum-ad-hitlerum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4415,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4412\/revisions\/4415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}