An online stranger couldn’t possibly grasp your complexities; all they have are a few vague impressions of you, too meagre to form anything but a phantasm. So when they attack "you", they are really just attacking their own imagination, and there is no need to take it personally.
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I underestand but I still think semantics matter in clarifying a concept. People usually make credible, probable *assumptions* about you even on one-time interactions (e.g. if you are articulate and polite vs. rude and unable to spell/speak properly).
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Well, my credible, probable assumption about you, Christina, is that you're cool-headed enough to make reasonable estimations about people from their online activity. But I doubt most people have such a gift for dispassionate deduction, especially in the heat of political debate.
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