{"id":2471,"date":"2016-05-28T12:26:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T17:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2471"},"modified":"2016-05-28T12:27:47","modified_gmt":"2016-05-28T17:27:47","slug":"i-created-godwins-law-in-1990-but-it-wasnt-a-prediction-it-was-a-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2471","title":{"rendered":"I created Godwin&#8217;s Law in 1990, but it wasn&#8217;t a prediction &#8211; it was a warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>This happened on May 4 when it was announced that &#8220;CuriousGnu&#8221; \u2013 a blogger who shares with me an ongoing curiosity about numbers and statistical data \u2013had blogged that &#8220;78% of Reddit Threads With 1000+ Comments Mention Nazis&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/when-i-created-godwins-law-1990-it-wasnt-prediction-it-was-warning-1562126\">I created Godwin&#8217;s Law in 1990, but it wasn&#8217;t a prediction &#8211; it was a warning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But the fact is, I designed Godwin&#8217;s Law not to be predictive, but to be &#8220;memetic&#8221; \u2014 not to show that debates would invariably become overheated but to spur debaters to invoke history mindfully, with deeper analysis rather than with glib allusion, because that&#8217;s the way for a speaker or writer to show that he or she is not taking the easy rhetorical path.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This happened on May 4 when it was announced that &#8220;CuriousGnu&#8221; \u2013 a blogger who shares with me an ongoing curiosity about numbers and statistical data \u2013had blogged that &#8220;78% of Reddit Threads With 1000+ Comments Mention Nazis&#8221;. via I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2471\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[110,222],"class_list":["post-2471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet_news","tag-history","tag-usenet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2472,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions\/2472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}