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godwin
name 2noun 1
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3VERB + GODWIN
pulled
GODWIN + NOUN
himself
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on
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name
1
A surname originating as a patronymic based on a medieval given name.
2
A town in Cumberland County, North Carolina, United States, named after pioneer settler.
noun
1
An inappropriate mention of the Nazis or Adolf Hitler in a discussion.
Presumably, because the institute producing the book promotes the idea that evolution isn't science, but an ideology, one that their fellows have pulled a Godwin on and attempted to tie to Nazism.
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Presumably, because the institute producing the book promotes the idea that evolution isn't science, but an ideology, one that their fellows have pulled a Godwin on and attempted to tie to Nazism.
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Mike Godwin himself rejects the alleged corollary to his famous law, that whoever makes a Nazi comparison has lost the argument.
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