![]() ![]() When I’ve fallen into something like the fallacy myself, it has often been motivated by an unwillingness to put in work. If they’re used to word X being used differently than how you mean it, that doesn’t make them haters. Most of your readers will be reasonable people and assume you to use words to mean things they’re used to them meaning. “Eh, if that upsets them then they wouldn’t like me explaining the theory of general relativity anyway.”Ĭommunication is hard and – importantly – contextual. “Hey maybe you shouldn’t start your essay by saying that all of your readers are idiots who deserve to be shot.” ![]() This is most obvious if you take it to an extreme: Maybe 5% of your audience will dismiss the message no matter what, but 30% will dismiss the old phrasing while being receptive to the new phrasing. The fallacy is in assuming that if you cannot avoid all misunderstandings, there is no point in avoiding any misunderstandings. It is impossible to phrase something in a way that would always be interpreted correctly, and for pretty much any message there are people who are hostile to it and who will twist it in the most uncharitable possible way. Now there’s obviously a grain of truth in this. “Oh, haters are gonna hate, there’s no amount of rephrasing that’s going to prevent this from being misinterpreted if people want to.” “I think in your post is going to cause misunderstandings, I’d suggest phrasing it differently.” Therefore, there’s no point wasting time wording things carefully.” The HGHF says something like: “People are going to misinterpret you no matter how carefully you word things. Occasionally I see people doing what I think of as the “Haters Gonna Hate Fallacy”. ![]() Posted on in Blog, English Posts | 0 comments ![]()
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