In 1953, the philosopher Leo Strauss coined the term Reductio ad Hitlerum, a derivative of the Reductio ad absurdum (or reduction to the absurd). Reductio ad Hitlerum was defined as a tactic to invalidate someone else’s ideology on the basis that the same idea was promoted or practiced by Adolf Hitler or the Nazi Party.
Reductio ad Hitlerum is the demoni…
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