Reductio ad Hitlerum

Type of propaganda, typically goes something like "Hitler supported X, therefore X must be bad"

A lazy way of logic

"You know who else had Anti-Smoking laws? Hmm, oh who was it... oh yeah, HITLER!"
- Character on King of Hill, showing Reductio ad Hitlerum

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reductio ad hitlerum

A logical fallacy (part of ad hominem), when someone dismiss speaker's argument and attacking speaker's personality by accusing the speaker(s) as a Nazi, racist, bigot, fascist, Hitler, or something similar

A: There's a Infidelity demon inside the cross
B: You're a bigot, A

B deliberately doing reductio ad hitlerum by calling A as a bigot

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