This Week's Godwin's Law Award Winner

This Godwin award goes to Doug Wilson and Gene Edward Veith for this quote:

"To react against the modern is in many ways to revert to the primitive, the barbaric. The fascism of the 1930s was never a conservative movement (despite Marxist propaganda), but it was a reaction against the objectivity, rationalism, and alienation of the ‘modern world,’ a reaction structurally parallel to that of the postmodernists. Fascism, like postmodernism, had its origins in romanticism, with its primitivism and subjectivity, and existentialism, with its rejection of absolutes and its ‘triumph of the will.’ Hitler may have failed because he was ahead of his time"

Veith wins for writing it, and Wilson for posting it approvingly. Keith keeps insisting that Wilson is really smart and just likes being controversial for the hell of it. I'm not going to bother disecting this argument, because Nazi analogies are so tiresome. Sorry Doug, but the reductio ad Hitlerum is overdone.

Tags: Godwin's Law, Doug Wilson, Gene Edward Veith