Is this an entire website dedicated to poor reading comprehension? I don’t think one of you understood the writing. You’re all hopping mad about your own misinterpretations.


All writing is designed for specific readers. This post was designed for regular readers of <insert subreddit>. That group has an unusually high reading comprehension level.


In this case, the content of the piece inspires so much emotion in some readers that they literally can’t understand it. The same would be true if the topic were about gun ownership or a dozen other topics. As emotion increases, reading comprehension decreases. This would be true of anyone, but regular readers of <subreddit> are pretty far along the bell curve toward rational thought, and relatively immune to emotional distortion.