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

Reductio ad Hitlerum by Metal6head January 13, 2008

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

reductio ad hitlerum by Sir. B February 16, 2021