Godwin's Law for Skins
When Neil posted this another four years would pass before Laurence Cantor and Martha S. Siegel would spam USENET -- the infamous Green Card spam. Bang-path addressing was still the norm, and spam was limited to addresses with explicit paths the spammers knew. The quaint past.
As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
Yesterday saw two instances of Godwin's Law for Skins. First, Mike Graham wrote that what the Congressional Black Caucus (minus the junior Senator from Illinois, and a very few others) and the Majority Leadership have in mind for Chad Smith and his not-so-happy band of fratricidal nosebleeds is just like Wounded Knee. Second, the junior Senator from Illinois was adopted (ahh, how cute) by a couple living on the Crow Rez., making him an honorary indian.
All in all its pretty funny. Chad as Wovoka has me in stitches, and my mom never had anything nice to say about Crows.
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I've evoked a similar corallary to Godwin's Law: anytime you compare the suffering of your group to that of Indians, the debate is over and you have lost.
"Second, the junior Senator from Illinois was adopted (ahh, how cute) by a couple living on the Crow Rez., making him an honorary indian."
Don't forget; Obama has also claimed "Cherokee heritage" on his mother side. No doubt his great, great, great grandmother was a Princess.
Posted by: The Local Crank | May 21, 2008 12:14 AM