Facts don't care about your feelings, but your feelings care about facts.

Or, why I love a song from Toad the Wet Sprocket

Sometimes, when I see someone comment on social media that “facts don’t care about your feelings,” I reply, “but your feelings care about facts!”

I think it’s clever—and it would be wild if no one had ever thought of this seemingly obvious inversion. In any case, the statement “facts don’t care about your feelings” has both a literal and a political mean…