If you would be a truth-teller or prophet:

Don’t selectively use only the data that support your narrative.

Don’t cherry-pick quotes and anecdotes.

Instead...

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Work to represent the whole person and the whole perspective, even if it doesn’t fit neatly into a label or onto a tribal map, the kinds that we writers or teachers love to create in order to demonstrate our "mastery" of a conversation.
When you leave out the data that weaken your narrative or blur your map, you may successfully ring the alarm among those who already wanted it rung. But you will misrepresent people, which is a kind of intellectual dishonesty for which you will one day give an account. Further...
You will foment suspicion and division, reify the tribes, and show yourself to be untrustworthy (even if only for misplaced zeal and not malicious intent).

You risk becoming an ideologue and not a prophet.

(I say all this for myself as much as for others.)
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