sugar coating blather

Claims of "sugar coating" are just a way of expressing a particular bias, like characterizing liberal propaganda as "bleeding heart" or conservative propaganda as "paranoid fascist." It is expressive, but substantially vacuous in itself. It's the associated argument in its details that supplies something to think about, in my opinion.

Notice that we are "wired" to respond to the labels rather than the substance in forming our unthinking alliances. This is a tendency we have to learn to see past if we seek original thought. Otherwise we just see the words of other people in terms of our own argument. We all do this, but some are more likely than others to realize the value in opposing the tendency.

Todd

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