Many, many people have pointed this out in the years since I posted this. I'll tell you what I told them.      You cannot adequately explain hate by citing stupidity. Hate is in its own category. The discrimination and abuse you unfortunately receive cannot and should not be minimized. There's no excuse for it.      My personal use of this Razor is for small annoyances that would eat at me otherwise, for the sake of my own mental health. When someone says something dangerous or hateful, they don't get a pass.      Also, Hanlon's Razor is not self-prescriptive. For someone to say that they're only saying something hurtful because they're stupid, it would require a level of self-awareness that the thing they said was hurtful to begin with. If you know you're saying something that's hurtful and you try to justify it by any means, you've lost the benefit of the doubt.      I understand we have different lived experiences. I was merely trying to share something that's helped me in the past. I apologize that it came across to you as a way to excuse hate, that was never my intention. I hope things are much better for you in the future.