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I need to change how I handle misreadings of my occasional controversial statements. It's not realistic to expect every online visitor to read carefully; such is the nature of the net. Strawmen - clumsy or deliberate misreadings - are a huge red button for me; the injustice of being accused of saying something I didn't galls me. But if my goal is to communicate, then I can't just grumpily insist people read what I actually wrote and avoid jumping to conclusions; I'll have to be prepared to patiently explain myself. (Mind you, I did have one visitor who was concocting amazing lies; there's no point in trying to explain anything to someone like that.)

ETA: And an opportunity to try this approach appears almost at once...