A New Addition to the Arsenal of Dumb Analogies

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Clarissa

October 3, 2025

“Today, like five years ago, a controversial man has been transformed overnight into a one-dimensional saint, marshaled in a culture war that precludes measured thought. Once again, Americans are being asked to genuflect before an idol.” pic.twitter.com/CC1d8FG1Ll
— Thomas Chatterton Williams (@thomaschattwill) October 2, 2025

I guess it’s progress that the libs have started to acknowledge that George Floyd was “controversial.” But equating a violent criminal with law-abiding and non-violent people like Charlie Kirk and Iryna Zarutska is precisely why I always say that analogy is a tool of an impotent brain. Some analogies work but most are an expression of a weak, flailing brain that can’t process complexity.

It’s funny that this author accuses others of being incapable of “measured thought” in a piece where he demonstrates childish levels of intellectual sophistication.

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5 responses to “A New Addition to the Arsenal of Dumb Analogies”

Anonymous

October 3, 2025

That’s bullshit. IQ tests have analogies. It’s a great logical tool.

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1. Stringer Bell
  
  October 3, 2025
  
  Yes, that’s why SATs have eliminated analogy questions. Because blacks and latinos do poorly at them lol.
  
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bluebird of bitterness

October 3, 2025

George Floyd was a career criminal and a drug addict and an all-around menace to society who unfortunately died in police custody, but no one on the right celebrated his death or expressed joy that he was gone.

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cliff arroyo

October 3, 2025

“are an expression of a weak, flailing brain that can’t process complexity”

I disagree about this example. It’s a calculated attempt to retro-actively change Floyd from a felon pos into a ‘controversial’ public figure as if he were the face of a civil rights movement before his death.

It’s far from stupid, it’s evil in intent and subtle in its working.

It’s bad faith and like every effort to rehabilitate the abusive criminal Floyd needs to be burned out root and stem (metaphorically speaking).

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1. methylethyl
  
  October 3, 2025
  
  It’s not so much an analogy as a magical working. Let us put these two things together in a jar, recite a magic formula over them, bury them in an auspicious spot, and it will, through occult processes, make the two things more like each other.
  
  Fortunately, it only works on people who lack the protection of the divine.
  
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