Harvard Law Professor Makes Sick Claim About Trump If you’re unfamiliar with Godwin’s law, it was a humorous postulate from the early days of the internet that went thusly: “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.” In other words, as things get heated, the ignorant and/or angry tend to call the other side Nazis or Hitler. The corollary is that once the other side invokes the Nazi Party, they pretty much lose the argument; those individuals have shown how threadbare their logic is without resorting to hyperbole or argumentum ad hominem. Since the election of Donald Trump and other associated shocks, there’s been a concerted movement to suspend Godwin’s law, at least for the moment. However, if you think that Godwin’s law should be suspended, I give you as a counterargument Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe. Tribe was, before the current administration, a respected if slightly nutty constitutional law prof. Nothing unusual for Harvard. He has since gone so far off the academic deep end that even his Wikipedia page says he “has promoted unreliable sources and conspiracy theories about Donald Trump.” Yet, he’s still a professor in good standing at Harvard — one who taught a course on Trump’s impeachment, according to Fox News. He also has a Twitter account, which can be kryptonite to some people. Tribe is unsurprisingly one of them. On Monday, Tribe took to Twitter and attempted to claim that because of what he saw as similar physiognomy between President Trump and Adolf Hitler, the two must be alike philosophically. “Horrifying. I’m not saying Trump is becoming Hitler, so don’t bother tweeting the distinctions,” Tribe said in a now-deleted tweet, along with these photographs: Tenure is a beautiful thing. Tribe, by the way, is the guy who once said, “If you’re going to shoot him, you have to shoot to kill” in regard to Trump’s impeachment. He would later apologize for the comment, though it was clear it was meant metaphorically. Whatever the case, Tribe’s idiocy is perfect evidence of why Godwin’s law is still relevant today. In fact, I would argue it’s more so. A decade ago, Nazi comparisons would usually be random people online spouting off at the mouth. In 2019, it’s law professors at Harvard. And people wonder why conservatives’ opinions of academia are so low.
Harvard Law Professor Makes Sick Claim About Trump If you’re unfamiliar with Godwin’s law, it was a humorous postulate from the early days of the internet that went thusly: “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.” In other words, as things get heated, the ignorant and/or angry tend to call the other side Nazis or Hitler. The corollary is that once the other side invokes the Nazi Party, they pretty much lose the argument; those individuals have shown how threadbare their logic is without resorting to hyperbole or argumentum ad hominem. Since the election of Donald Trump and other associated shocks, there’s been a concerted movement to suspend Godwin’s law, at least for the moment. However, if you think that Godwin’s law should be suspended, I give you as a counterargument Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe. Tribe was, before the current administration, a respected if slightly nutty constitutional law prof. Nothing unusual for Harvard. He has since gone so far off the academic deep end that even his Wikipedia page says he “has promoted unreliable sources and conspiracy theories about Donald Trump.” Yet, he’s still a professor in good standing at Harvard — one who taught a course on Trump’s impeachment, according to Fox News. He also has a Twitter account, which can be kryptonite to some people. Tribe is unsurprisingly one of them. On Monday, Tribe took to Twitter and attempted to claim that because of what he saw as similar physiognomy between President Trump and Adolf Hitler, the two must be alike philosophically. “Horrifying. I’m not saying Trump is becoming Hitler, so don’t bother tweeting the distinctions,” Tribe said in a now-deleted tweet, along with these photographs: Tenure is a beautiful thing. Tribe, by the way, is the guy who once said, “If you’re going to shoot him, you have to shoot to kill” in regard to Trump’s impeachment. He would later apologize for the comment, though it was clear it was meant metaphorically. Whatever the case, Tribe’s idiocy is perfect evidence of why Godwin’s law is still relevant today. In fact, I would argue it’s more so. A decade ago, Nazi comparisons would usually be random people online spouting off at the mouth. In 2019, it’s law professors at Harvard. And people wonder why conservatives’ opinions of academia are so low. 
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