Jeri, you are still missing my point and stepping into the same trap again. 1. "Godwin's law" is a satirical notion, applicable to a large field of "rhetorical tricks" and/or fallacies. Calling anyone an "actual nazi" is such an example: "s/he did something in the sense of the NSDAP, therefore s/he is/was an actual nazi, therefore s/he is among the worst villains, guilty of millions of murders". Of course, real villains did and do exist, but to prove it takes more care. Best avoid such words as "nazi" altogether. 2. and 3. I am not "going after people". The thread topic as I understand it is whether works of art can be devalued by moral deficiencies of their authors, and my contribution is that such deficiencies are often diagnosed from too little information.
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