Intellectual dishonesty is when someone catches you out in a misstatement or fallacious argument but you refuse, in spite of the evidence, to admit you were wrong. That’s what happened here, with a Facebook post from Occupy Democrats.

The Before and After view of Occupy Democrats’ take on the San Bernardino shooting.
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When OD’s claims turned out to be false – read an in-depth New York Times story on the shooters here – they took down their post. However, they did not issue a retraction. Instead, they changed their tune, claiming that in the first post they were merely concerned about a presumption of innocence. But the way I read that first post – which is how I think any reasonably objective person would read it – is that OD mostly wanted to embarrass conservatives, whom they had already decided were guilty of Muslim-bashing. So much for the presumption of innocence.
I contacted Occupy Democrats on December 6, 2015, asking for comment. They did not respond. Their e-mail is OccupyDems@gmail.com if you’d care to send them a note on this or just to let them know you read this story.
–David Preston