Usually, I don’t feel any desire to play devil’s advocate. I have no interest in looking for ways to defend bad people or bad ideas. That’s not to say it’s wrong to play devil’s advocate. Generally, though, it’s not my style. I prefer to be as direct as possible.
For example, if a certain group of people — say, Somalis in Minnesota — are being dragged online by hundreds of millions of people, I feel no desire whatsoever to step in and ask an annoying contrarian question, such as, “Hey, what if these people aren’t actually so bad?”
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