{"id":4910,"date":"2016-05-09T16:37:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T21:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4910"},"modified":"2016-05-09T16:37:35","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T21:37:35","slug":"never-go-full-godwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4910","title":{"rendered":"Never go full Godwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From NPR&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/alltechconsidered\/2016\/05\/09\/477057058\/study-shows-people-still-love-inappropriately-referencing-nazis-online?utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=npr&amp;utm_term=nprnews&amp;utm_content=20160509\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/alltechconsidered\/2016\/05\/09\/477057058\/study-shows-people-still-love-inappropriately-referencing-nazis-online?utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=npr&amp;utm_term=nprnews&amp;utm_content=20160509\">All Tech Considered<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Godwin explains that the comparison is usually out of desperation. &#8220;<strong>Discovering what other people think when they disagree with you is quite disturbing<\/strong>. So there&#8217;s a tendency to escalate,&#8221; he says. He adds that the Internet created the first opportunity for such a diverse range of people to interact in an unmediated space.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To this I would add that dealing with disagreement is time-consuming, fatiguing, and emotionally distressing. Finding an easy way to do it is the name of the game. Hitler will do just fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From NPR&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0All Tech Considered: Godwin explains that the comparison is usually out of desperation. &#8220;Discovering what other people think when they disagree with you is quite disturbing. So there&#8217;s a tendency to escalate,&#8221; he says. He adds that the Internet created the first opportunity for such a diverse range of people to interact in an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4910\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Never go full Godwin<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1739,741,1957],"class_list":["post-4910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-disagreement","tag-godwins-law","tag-hitler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4910","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4911,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4910\/revisions\/4911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}