It doesn’t! It’s just a comment on how overused the comparisons are on the internet. To quote Godwin himself:
Although deliberately framed as if it were a law of nature or of mathematics, its purpose has always been rhetorical and pedagogical: I wanted folks who glibly compared someone else to Hitler to think a bit harder about the Holocaust.
It doesn’t! It’s just a comment on how overused the comparisons are on the internet. To quote Godwin himself:
Right, the point is whether a comparison is really valid and/or if something else would be more appropriate, not that they should never be used