Reason? Magazine

One of the biggest pieces of B.S. (bad syllogism) is the following:

  All people who claim to be Objectivists are Objectivists.

Tom claims to be an Objectivist

Tom is an Objectivist.

From this we get:

Tom is an Objectivist

Everything Tom says must, on its face,  be something an Objectivisit would say.

Tom says he won't marry a fat woman who goes to church.

Tom is an idiot (see side syllogism re: Tom's idiocy).

Objectivists are idiots QED

This sort of reasoning was displayed in spades in a New York Magazine column and its comments section just yesterday.  It is then quoted in Reason Magazine's web site without further comment.  Reason is, despite its name, no friend of Ayn Rand or Objectivism.   Had it lived up to its name, it might have pointed out what I just pointed out, that to believe that the people who belong to an organization are uniformly aware of the things they are claiming to believe, is racism at the very least.  But maybe they are more concerned with subscription cancellations than with  speaking up when reason is murdered.