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Inconvenient truths (about the world we live in)

It's because any time someone uses this expression, they are trying to convince everyone that we should adopt their harebrained flat tax strategy, or something. When someone has evidence to assert their beliefs, everyone listens. When someone starts spouting garbage about the "inconvenient truth" about how the rich are being oppressed by a 20% tax rate... well, then everyone tunes out.

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I think it's more inconvenient truths like "Your startup is overwhelmingly likely to fail". Those types of pragmatic posts/comments generally are hushed over in favor of the more exuberant ones.

I think that is politeness.

For example something like the NYPD Most Wanted list: http://a056-crimestoppers.nyc.gov/crimestoppers/public/publi... which contains maybe 1 white person(^) out of dozens of suspects, and that there might be more to it than just bad luck in life.

But at least I got some discussion going.

(^) Can't really tell.

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