Considering how I gave my piece as kindly as possible and how yours is just a self-assured dismissal, I think it's you who should knock it off. :)

Your comment didn't come off as kind. At best it just seems like you misunderstood the comment you were replying to.

You said: "...don't tell people who are going through something that you empathize with their struggles, real and painful struggles which you have no share in suffering."

The person you replied to didn't do this.

Misunderstanding is unkind? Did I misunderstand unkindly?

As I said in the previous comment, I think that the people dying on a hill to defend OP are completely missing the fact that people understand others’ statements according to their own circumstances. This is an inevitable limitation of the subjective human experience, and this is why no one can ever make the position that nothing that they say is offensive—you simply don’t know what others have gone through which they are using to understand the things you say.

I really don’t see what’s so different with what I’m saying with, say, some misunderstood law or policy at work or business requirement because the writer thought of the wording differently than the reader. I pointed out that there’s no need to demonize the commenter, but somehow people feel the need to protect him lol.

Then again, maybe you guys have been incorrectly called out on Twitter, but that doesn’t make you right in the same way that I’m not necessarily in the right here.