The example there is rhetorically effective not because there is an analogy between what the New York Times does and what this post did, but because there isn’t.
I objected to the comparison because it’s emotionally loaded. “You’re worse than {bad thing}” isn’t any less emotionally loaded than “you’re like {bad thing}”.
I objected to the comparison because it’s emotionally loaded. “You’re worse than {bad thing}” isn’t any less emotionally loaded than “you’re like {bad thing}”.