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What is the Reductio Ad Hitlerum Fallacy?

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Recuctio Ad Hitlerum is pseudo latin for "reduction to Hitler. People call it playing the Nazi card. It's an attempt to invalidate someone's argument because they have the same stance as Hitler. EX: "Hitler was against smoking tobacco. X is against smoking tobacco. Therefore, X is a Nazi."
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