Social media makes it obvious that people in general are incapable of parsing through biased language to follow the underlying argument.

Somebody who dislikes everything you like can absolutely make good points about it. An argument can be nonsense even though your likes match up with the authors

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@baldur For the former one, it's important to distinguish between "biased language" and "biased premise", though; biased language in and of itself won't invalidate the argument, but a biased *premise* definitely can.

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@joepie91 Absolutely. That applies to both as well. A biased premise is really hard to spot if it’s one you instinctively favour.

And you don’t have to agree with the conclusion either. If somebody argues “A and B, and therefore Z” you can agree with observations A and B while still thinking that conclusion Z is a reach and that C is more reasonable.

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