Elise wrote a recommended Top Comments diary tonight about critical thinking.
In it, she provides a definition of critical thinking:
Critical thinking involves logical thinking and reasoning including skills such as comparison, classification, sequencing, cause/effect, patterning, webbing, analogies, deductive and inductive reasoning, forecasting, planning, hyphothesizing, and critquing.
Well, John Aravosis at AmericaBlog has just provided us with an example of an abject failure in critical thinking.
Writing yet another angry, throwaway post, this one about the horrible murder of Dr. Tiller by a right-wing anti-choice lunatic, Aravosis isn't content to condemn the wingut responsible for the murder, or even the decades-long culture of painting abortion providers as killers.
No, of course not!
Why would he do that when his filter permits him to find a causal link because an act of right-wing terrorism and the hated Nobama?
Thank God that the Obama administration caved last month to religious right and GOP demands that it withdraw a new domestic terrorism report that indicated, among other things, that radicals might use abortion as a justification for committing acts of domestic terrorism. Now a man is dead, and an American church has been shot up during services.
What a total asshole.