This trend of people modifying someone's words and then projecting those modified words onto them has been more and more widespread. I see it as intellectually

This trend of people modifying someone's words and then projecting those modified words onto them has been more and more widespread. I see it as intellectually dishonest, and as depriving someone of their own agency in the context of discourse. Everyone has a right to speak for themselves, and this mindset erodes that right.