Social media discourse fails to produce substantive results
People, wrapped up in their intellectual egos, use turns of phrase reserved for the most emotional situations because subtlety has virtually gone out the window. It’s no wonder Godwin’s law exists. In 1990, attorney and author Mike Godwin asserted that “as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Hitler approaches 1.”
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