The Incomplete Cynic

The Incomplete Cynic: Occupy My Living Room

ryking:

holeycynicism:

A woman I work with is really dedicated to the Occupy movement. She works some evenings and weekends so that she can be involved there during the week, and she talks about it effusively at the office. I hadn’t thought the movement, from what I’d seen and heard, was worth my attention, but she’s a nice lady. I decided to look into it. Turns out I was right in the first place…

Here’s what I found…

Actually, here’s what I found in your piece: Fallacies galore, such as begging the question; a few straw men; kettle logic; the nirvana fallacy; appeals to emotion; appeals to spite; appeals to ridicule; ad hominem attacks; wishful thinking.

Did that appear to be a planned, logical rebuttal of the arguments of OWS? If so, I’m better at this than I thought. No, that was a late night rant intended for a few FB and Twitter friends (thanks to jeffmiller for liking it enough to promote it, though!). And late night rants are completely useless if you leave out the appeals to emotion, spite, ridicule and ad hominems. Isn’t that why everyone loves the Daily Show?

Given the poor quality of the post, I imagine that the only reason it was promoted to #Politics is that LA Liberty was happy that a right-wing African-American was trashing OWS, as if liberals would be unwilling to rebut or incapable of rebutting your nonsense because of your skin color. Rather hypocritical of him, though, to promote the piece on #Politics when he’s unwilling to like or reblog it. — Ryking

I’m not particularly intimidated by the prospect of someone attempting to rebut my (oh so solid) arguments from this post. I think I’d be interested in hearing your thoughts on it…are you up for it?