You'll get a lot further in life by assuming you don't understand than assuming others are trolling. Indeed, sometimes it's the only way to get information from

You'll get a lot further in life by assuming you don't understand than assuming others are trolling. Indeed, sometimes it's the only way to get information from data. In this case you don't seem to have understood the context in which the phrase in question is often uttered. The context is politics. Power dynamics. Changing the definitions of words to change what is possible to be expressed with language. Not the natural kind of language evolution that happens over generations due to misunderstandings or new inventions.