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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Words of the Day

Scott Adams brings the Tiger-Blood Winning:
  • Labelass: A special kind of idiot who uses labels as a substitute for comprehension.
  • Binarian: A special kind of idiot who believes that all people who hold a different view from oneself have the same views as each other.
RTWT. I agree with a commenter that the 3rd new word sucks, but the 1st two rock. HT: Illka

1 comment:

Alrenous said...

The third is simply a crass and verbose way of saying 'straw man.'

It may be a particularly common subspecies of straw man, but...

But then, the labelass is also committing the exact same error. They imagine their opponent as [label] rather than bothering to look at reality.

Come to think, all three labels target the same subspecies of scarecrow artisan. All three prefer their fantasy of their opponents to the reality thereof.