All we have to do is think about what we're hearing and seeing.
It's easy for all of us to uncritically suck up things that make you feel good about ourselves, or confirm our own prejudices. It takes work to find out if these things are true or not.
As I said a while back, even a baboon can be angry. We need to apply reasoned thinking.
Watch out for people who treat analysis and questions of their ideas as threats.