Friday, 23 August 2013  A Word About Nazis  If there’s something
Defensive Formula Feeders (DFFs) love even more than visiting
breastfeeding discussion forums, it’s resorting to Godwin’s Law
during said discussions:  “As an online discussion grows longer
and more heated, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis
or Hitler approaches” (Wikipedia definition of Godwin’s Law).
Otherwise known as “Playing the Hitler card”, it involves trying
to refute an opponent's view by comparing it to a view that
would be held by Adolf Hitler. “You think mothers should put
their babies’ needs first? OMG get lost Breastapo!”  DFFs do
not, however, offer very compelling arguments as to why we
should see some kind of moral equivalence between Nazism and
breastfeeding advocacy. Perhaps they don’t need to. Simply by
making some kind of link between National Socialism and the
practice that irritates them, they succeed in implying guilt by
association: putting two things that have no necessary
connection together in the hope t