How long until the right-wing media starts comparing Penn State rioters to OWS?

Capitalocracy

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Thu Nov-10-11 01:03 PM
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How long until the right-wing media starts comparing Penn State rioters to OWS?

Look for that in 5... 4... 3... 2...

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coalition_unwilling

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Thu Nov-10-11 01:07 PM
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1. Penn St. rioters are a bunch of fucking fratboys and fratboy

wanna-bes. WTF?

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Capitalocracy

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Thu Nov-10-11 01:10 PM
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2. Yes, and any minute now...

the right-wing media is going to start making weird amorphous associations about the "atmosphere" or something like that. They'll come up with something. I know how these bastards think.

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coalition_unwilling

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Thu Nov-10-11 01:17 PM
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5. Protesters at UC-Berkeley are students; Rioters at PSU are

students. Therefore, UC-Berkeley = PSU. There's a word for this type of logical fallacy in the construction of the syllogism, but I can't remember it right off-hand.

Any experts out there with training in formal logic want to lend a hand?

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Capitalocracy

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Thu Nov-10-11 01:20 PM
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7. Wikipedia has a list of logical fallacies. It will be along similar lines.

I think it will be even less specific than that... it'll be kind of like Bush in Fahrenheit 9/11... "Iraq. al Qaeda. Iraq. al Qaeda." "Penn State. OWS. Penn State. OWS."

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ProudToBeBlueInRhody

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Thu Nov-10-11 09:54 PM
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9. I saw a lot of girls rioting too.

Just to be fair.

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arcane1

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Thu Nov-10-11 01:13 PM
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3. It's already happening in comments sections on news websites

Only a matter of time, like later today, before Faux starts doing the same thing.

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Capitalocracy

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Thu Nov-10-11 01:15 PM
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4. I'm surprised they haven't already

I think they're waiting on the talking points

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slackmaster

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Thu Nov-10-11 01:19 PM
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6. Everything that could happen has probably already happened

http://www.boston.com/sports/columnists/wilbur/2011/11/state_of_idiocy.html

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Capitalocracy

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Thu Nov-10-11 09:51 PM
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8. That one describes the Penn State rioters as even worse than OWS...

if that's not damning with faint praise, I don't know what is. Someone called them out on it in the comments section.

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