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Memorial Day: Enter Hitler, Release 2.0

- James Howard Kunstler -

You know, Kunstler, I usually find you entertaining. Not necessarily right and certainly not particularly expert, but at least entertaining. But this. Wow. So, if you wear a black leather jacket and ride a motorcycle, you are Hitler. Doesn't take much. Damn, just about anybody can be a Hitler. Fortunately for me I never learned to ride a motorcycle and I am sufficiently unfashionable that I don't own a leather jacket. So, no Hitler for me. What a relief!!! Oh yeah, just to be fair to this "article". I guess the other thing that makes you a Hitler is that you believe that America is suffering right now and could be better in the future (paraphrasing, but that is the semantic content). So, unless we are in lock step with the current government, we are Hitler there too?? Geez.

The sheer illogic of this polemic is obvious. Well, maybe not to Kunstler. So let me lay it out. The specific logical fallacy is the fallacy of composition. One can always find some common denominator between any two things (or people). Just because you do, that does not make the two things (or people) equivalent. It means they have one similar attribute. So, Hitler and Palin wear black leather. That doesn't mean Palin is Hitler, any more than some men have mustaches, Hitler had a mustache, and those mustached men aren't Hitler either. etc. etc. Most of you will undestand this. It would probably take me another dozen or so examples for Kunstler to figure out, but there is a character limit to comments.

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Beginning of the headline : As the sage Robert Crumb once remarked about our homeland: "You can't make this shit up." Sarah Palin entered the race for president this week (without stating it in so many words) with a national bus tour, itself kicked off with a motorcycle parade through Washington. By PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press - Sun May 29, 5:57 pm ET WASHINGTON - Sarah Palin rumbled through Washington on the back of a Harley as she and her family began an East Coast tour Sunday, renewing speculation that the former Alaska governor would join the still unsettled Republican presidential contest... Read More

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