Ben Shapiro, who a few weeks back was pedantically lecturing fellow conservatives about the definition of “analogy,” demonstrated Thursday morning that he’s not actually on familiar terms with the concept, as evidenced by this tweet:
"In a raid on the apartment on Wednesday, police reportedly confiscated a gay pride flag." #TakeItDown http://t.co/JpKh0dZWzC
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 27, 2015
What he’s arguing here is beyond idiotic — one homosexual African-American male who owns a gay pride flag isn’t the same thing as the symbol of treason in defense of slavery, for which over 750,000 Americans lost their lives righteously fighting or regretfully defending. Nor is one gay black man the equivalent of a state legislature like South Carolina’s, an august body containing many members who agreed with their state’s sitting senator that the flag “represents who we are,” all of whom conveniently forgot that 30 percent of the state is black.
But the fact that Shapiro’s analogy wasn’t even remotely analogous didn’t stop his followers from pouncing on it an attempt to get #TakeItDown trending on Twitter:
#Takeitdown. Faggot flag stands for white hate and severly offends me!!! https://t.co/PXAXBctwvy
— SouthernandProud (@RNECKMOFO) August 27, 2015
Not everyone, however, was fooled by Shapiro’s manifest deficit of logic:
And more than a few people were adamant that the phrase was applicable to the murders of Alison Parker and Adam Ward, just not in the way Shapiro intended:
I rarely ask for RTs but this is my community–Take down the shooter's video, @thedailybeast #wdbj #WDBJshooting #takeitdown
— hannah anderson (@sometimesalight) August 26, 2015
Take it down, please Twitter. #takeitdown
— Roger Kingkade (@rogerkingkade) August 26, 2015
@NYDailyNews you guys are sick and should be ashamed of yourself. You realize you're giving that coward exactly what he wanted? #takeitdown
— Anna (@lilwolf30) August 27, 2015
