Even well-intentioned readers who do go on to read the entire piece may still be reacting in part to that initial formulation.
Legrain's audience is the well-intentioned reader with concerns about the poor, the environment, and democracy.
Mainstream commentators have their own blogs and the posts on sites such as this are on the whole fresher and more egalitarian than the rather arid - if well intentioned - readers' corrections sections, which all too often are where apologies for inaccuracy get put for news errors, rather than real dialogue and two-way discussion.
Even well-intentioned and liberal-minded readers of any background are likely to feel a clammy recognition when Atkins realizes with guilty horror that she would never have let her own child ride the rickety roller coaster at Coney Island alone, or that she really doesn't want to spend Thanksgiving or Christmas with the needy and exhausting Jamaica.
I also get that the purpose of her observation was well-intentioned: to help potential readers who fear and loathe us get over those feelings by assuring them that being trans really isn't a big deal.
Ruth's attorney, Kennedy, is a stand-in for Picoult and many of her regular readers: a well-intentioned white woman who had never been challenged to face her own internalized prejudice.
This is where most readers, like well-intentioned law enforcement officials, will note the children involved deserve better.
Earlier this month, Harvard University's library published an online guide to fake news, misinformation, and propaganda; it may have been well-intentioned but was widely derided because it directed readers to a list of "fake" news sites that included obviously satirical sites like the Onion and mainstream conservative sites like National Review.
I asked black friends and relatives to tell me about the times even well-intentioned white people have made a mess of an interaction so readers may learn from their examples.
Goop is the fantasy of every aspiring writer -- that you will quickly and easily write self-absorbed, un-edited, well-intentioned nonsense, post it, and be met with tens of thousands of readers.
The result is still a work of literature that a human author intentioned and I think the burden of extracting meaning is still on the reader.
