In a scathing op-ed, LGBTQ Nation Heroes nominee Melissa Gira Grant urges us to ask ourselves how we didn’t see someone like Johnson coming…

  • morphballganon@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Try to limit your arguments to premises that are largely independently accepted, so it’s less of a leap for people to see how you got to your conclusion.

    You come across a bit like me 20 years ago, when I had ideas that may have had merit, but my ability to communicate and reason wasn’t at the level necessary to get others onboard.

    Each time you make a bold jump in reasoning that isn’t perfectly supported by accepted premises, you lose some % of your readers (assuming they are interested in fact, rather than opinion).