Are you, "speaking truth to power" in your life, too?
Do you know what really gets under people's skin? Not the person who is lying, but the person who speaks some truth that the audience finds uncomfortable. You'll never get more fury than when you do that. We hear all the time now about "reckonings on race" and "real conversations." I like to take people up on that offer and, for a change, I like to introduce statistics and logic, rather than propaganda, "lived experiences," and other feelings. Most people believe what they want to believe and aren't interested in evidence to the contrary. In fact, they react quite poorly when confronted with that. If you want to know who's telling the truth, it's usually the guy whom everyone in the room is angry at. Haven't you ever noticed that before, perhaps in your own life? The criticism that bothers you most is not the unfounded, untrue accusation, it's the criticism that you know down deep is true.