Reductio AD Hitlerum
Reductio AD Hitlerum is an ironic expression indicating, in the form of false Latin phrase, a Sophisme (or fallacious Raisonnement) used in policy aiming at disqualifying an adversary by comparing it with a character honni past (typically, Adolf Hitler). This polemical tactic can cause to exclude the person concerned from the political field while avoiding a discussion in depth with it. The expression appeared for the first time in 1950 in the book of the academic Leo Strauss, Natural Right and History . It was taken again later by the philosopher specialist in Shoah George Steiner.
It finds its prolongation on Usenet and Internet with “Law of Godwin”, which states that “more one discussion on Usenet lasts a long time, plus the probability of finding a comparison with the Nazis there or with Hitler approaches 1”.
A media example was the intervention of Silvio Berlusconi to the the European Parliament suggesting with Martin Schulz, which had criticized it, finding to him in a film a role of Kapo " who would suit him very bien".
Internal bonds
- Sophism
- sophism " AD hominem "
- the sophism of " Dishonor by association "
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