There's a well established social phenomena for what you describe as uncharitable reading the words / actions of other people. It's called the fundamental attri

There's a well established social phenomena for what you describe as uncharitable reading the words / actions of other people. It's called the fundamental attribution error. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error It has been studied in detail with respect to computer mediated communications as far back as the dawn of email and the tendency of readers to assign a lot more negativity to the emails they receive then their senders ever intended.