This may be of educational interest to some of the folks here who take pleasure in invoking the law at the drop of a hat:

Godwin's Law Creator Supports Calling Racist Demonstrators 'Nazis'
Not all Nazi comparisons are accurate, but some absolutely are.


Mike Godwin, an attorney and author, coined something called Godwin's law in 1990, when internet discussion boards were first proliferating. In the years since he introduced the law, it has become a mainstay of internet discussion boards. And as it has proliferated, the general understanding of the law has grown less precise; though Godwin's law is not intended to be used to penalize people for invoking Hitler, it's often invoked now to claim that debaters who compare each other to Hitler have "violated" Godwin's law. The penalty: The person who referenced Hitler or Nazis automatically loses the argument. A gentler version holds that once Hitler comes up in a debate, the conversation has outlived its usefulness.

Godwin sees his law a bit differently, however. On Sunday, he tweeted about the events in Charlottesville, and he didn't mince words:

Mike Godwin @sfmnemonic
By all means, compare these shitheads to Nazis. Again and again. I'm with you.
8:03 PM - Aug 13, 2017

"The best way to prevent future holocausts, I believe, is not to forbear from Holocaust comparisons," he wrote in The Washington Post in 2015, amid the rise of Trump. "[I]nstead, it's to make sure that those comparisons are meaningful and substantive." Though some have used Godwin's law to push back on comparisons between white nationalists and Nazis, the law was originally intended to preserve the strength of those Nazi comparisons for times when they are genuinely merited."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/godwins-law-creator-supports-calling-racist-demonstrators-nazis_us_59919eb5e4b0909642986356?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009