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Ya know, it's people like you what cause people to spend their lives silent and paralyzed by indecision for fear of making a single social error that they will never be allowed to correct.
You did notice that you're doing the exact same thing sie is doing, right? (That is, jumping to a conclusion about what kind of person someone is, based on a single action.)
Out of interest is "sie" one of those gender neutral terms that have been invented or a typo?
Gender neutral. "Mitchell Porter" sounds male, but for some reason my brain pings back that I've heard of a female with that exact first and last name, and the probability it could be that Mitchell Porter seems high.
Bad choice; it's German for "she".
The 'i' key is not adjacent to 's', 'h' or 'e', so I guess it's intentional.
No, that would be saying, "I will never again reply to any thread in which you have participated" or something like that. The important thing is to be allowed to say "Oops".
I didn't say that you were doing the same thing you were accusing hir of doing; I said you were both jumping to conclusions about character on the basis of single actions. And hir objection, while a significant over-reaction, didn't go so far as to directly reduce you to a mere class of person.
If you'd said that throwing tantrums like that caused people to spend their lives silent and paralyzed, that'd get the same point across without stooping to the actual personal attack of "people like you".
(Certainly, some people might still take it as a personal attack without that phrase, but you'd be less likely to have your existing allies take up their side, interpreting you as needlessly kicking an underdog.)