{"id":142,"date":"2007-08-13T20:59:39","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T20:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ivyrun.com\/wordpress\/?p=142"},"modified":"2007-08-13T20:59:39","modified_gmt":"2007-08-13T20:59:39","slug":"evidently-hes-never-heard-of-godwins-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"Evidently, He&#8217;s Never Heard of Godwin&#8217;s Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just got my afternoon update from the Chronicle of Higher Education. It referenced this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/birminghamnews\/index.ssf?\/base\/news\/1186908104153710.xml&amp;coll=2\" target=\"_blank\">article from The Birmingham News<\/a>.\u00a0 A fight has been going on over two-year colleges.\u00a0 Joe Reed, the number 2 man at the Alabama Education Association, wrote a scathing letter to the chancellor of the two-year college system in which he compares him to Adolph Hitler.\u00a0 I guess Reed has never heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Godwin's_law\" target=\"_blank\">Godwin&#8217;s Law<\/a>.\u00a0 While this law usually refers to online discussion forums, I believe it applies in this case.\u00a0 It says, &#8220;As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.&#8221;\u00a0 In addition, according to Wikipedia, &#8220;There is a tradition in many newsgroups and other Internet discussion forums that once such a comparison is made, the thread is finished and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically &#8220;lost&#8221; whatever debate was in progress.&#8221;\u00a0 Guess Reed loses&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just got my afternoon update from the Chronicle of Higher Education. It referenced this article from The Birmingham News.\u00a0 A fight has been going on over two-year colleges.\u00a0 Joe Reed, the number 2 man at the Alabama Education Association, wrote a scathing letter to the chancellor of the two-year college system in which he compares &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=142\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Evidently, He&#8217;s Never Heard of Godwin&#8217;s Law<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[50,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-discourse","category-thinking-out-loud"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4X3L0-2i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}