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I hate to be the person who nitpicks, but

> I turned on the Beats1 station to see if it was any good, heard some rap "music", and then very very quickly turned that station off.

It's OK not to personally like specific genres, but please don't go as far as to dismiss those you don't like as not being "music".

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My bad - I removed the quotes. I was just feeling annoyed over the course of using Apple Music.

Not sure what you were expecting though? I mean, it's a radio station. They're going to play all sorts of music. Today was the first time The Chronic by Dr. Dre has been streamable and so they played it on Beats 1 (the whole album I think?) - but that came after they were playing indie/alternative music for an hour. Perhaps you tuned in at the wrong time.

Especially a radio station called Beats.

No, it is perfectly acceptable to use hyperbole. Anyone who says differently should be shot. If you like rap music, you are stupid, and your parents are stupid.

Criticizing music in a post about music preferences is not unreasonable. Thicken your skin.

Did you want a reply, or the catharsis of getting downvoted from "stupid" users who like rap?

I want an argument about how often I am seeing people being offended by having their preferences criticized. I can take somebody disagreeing with me (except on this issue, of course :) ), and civil society relies on criticism, and people accepting criticism. Berating people because they are dismissive of things they don't like is a path that lies madness. Feedback should not be purely positive, truncating the negative, because then effects that are polarizing or simply have costly disadvantages outcompete effects that do are more mildly positive, but without (or fewer) drawbacks.

Saying that rap is not music may be criticism. But it is certainly ignorant and unconstructive criticism. It is criticism in the same sense that "your mom" jokes are.

Right, there's disagreement to teach or learn about another's opinion, but you're engaged in something more indulgent.

I don't believe you're interested in the merits of civil discourse, no, you just enjoy the declaration of your opinion.

"Feedback should not be purely positive," right, it should at least be constructive.

...but it's not a post about music preferences, it's a post about software usability.

Software usability of what? Music preferences software.

I get mine muddled, is this a fallacy of composition or texas sharpshooter?

I see what you did there

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