Reductio Ad Hitlerum is a Clichéd Argument for (a) Reason.

beetle bailey
4 min readNov 11, 2022

Yadda-yadda, fallacy of informal logic. And yet … Reductio Ad Hitlerum (or Argumentum Ad Hitlerum/Ad Nazium) is rarely not a TKO, when used relevantly. With good reason. And then, it’s far from a fallacy.

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COMMENTER: So many of Lovecraft’s stories can be easily reinterpreted in a positive and progressive way if you just look at them from a non xenophobic, racist…

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beetle bailey

Just a bug with progressive values, opinions, and Interwebz. Black, atheist, AuDHD, Âû. A-awesome. PROUDLY a transmasc coleoptera. Be warned: I clap back.