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So don't be afraid to let them show your true colors
When someone shows their true colors by revealing their true allegiances—especially when intellectually or professionally signifying as being neutral, rational, or non-partisan—the first thing that comes to mind is "I don't think that [phrase] means what you think it means," paraphrasing Inigo Montoya's quip in the perennial favorite swashbuckling romantic comedic film, The Princess Bride.
While that might not make sense, initially, I guess you need to be in my head, because the next two things I think of, in parallel, are: are you a true believer, a believer in absolutisms and blacks and whites; or, are you a rhetorician, a debater, who knows how to use the phrase, "false equivalency," to nuke the conversation through an attempt to completely dismiss and discredit a previously made comparison.