Keep word: adequately. This is not adequately explained by stupidity.

It feels like lately there are people committing malice knowingly trying to justify it as just a joke or unknowingly doing something from stupidity to make it more palatable to people that will then excuse them.

I think this rule may have always been fake when anyone with even a little bit of power did it.

> adequately explained by stupidity

What is the adequate explanation via stupidity in this case though? If there is one that sure maybe we should lean that way without further evidence.

It does occur to me that you can be both malicious and stupid at the same time.

This gets complicated when the malicious have also read the saying and intentionally feign stupidity, but that's just chaos politics.