> > This reads as 'well you must be stupid'... > > > It means that to folks who are insecure. And humans inherently are. My internal > reading voice was calm and soft when reading that bit of his. And I've been the end > of some of Moog's harshest retorts.
It's context. Had Charles MacDonald posted that nobody would have bat an eyelid.
As Moogly posted it, and is known for hyper aggressive sociopathic tendencies it gets interpreted in a different way.
Obviously some people aren't going to be offended by it, generally people of similar mind, but it's very easy to see how it interpreted that way.