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What is Reductio ad Hitlerum?
A logical fallacy (part of ad hominem), when someone dismiss speaker's argument and attacking speaker's personality by accusing the speaker(s) as a Nazi, racist, bigot, fascist, Hitler, or something similar
A: There's a Infidelity demon inside the cross
B: You're a bigot, A
B deliberately doing reductio ad hitlerum by calling A as a bigot
Reductio ad Hitlerum - video
Reductio ad Hitlerum - what is it?
Type of propaganda, typically goes something like "Hitler supported X, therefore X must be bad"
A lazy way of logic
"You know who else had Anti-Smoking laws? Hmm, oh who was it... oh yeah, HITLER!"
- Character on King of Hill, showing Reductio ad Hitlerum