ttystikk
Well-Known Member
Let this testimony be my attempt to clear the air;After you own up to how you ran Pinny off the boards.
You called him faggot, remember?
And when he complained about it, you used every teenager-technical excuse in the book to dodge what you did, remember?
This is why your name to me is Mud.
Perhaps you should check your collarbone account. You're likely to find someone else for general torment.
He called me a faggot first, remember? Oh yeah, he's your buddy and everyone was drunk so you can remember it any way you want.
Here's the truth;
He'd been hounding me for weeks on the political boards, teaming up with Buckwit to do it- and using similar tactics which are infamously intentionally inflammatory. After awhile I'd had enough so I put him on ignore. What he said after that I don't know and don't care.
Then I went to tinychat to hang with you guys like I'd done a hundred times before and the first words out of his mouth are, 'hey, faggot!'. I interpreted this as a continuation of his belligerence on RIU, so I responded in kind. I didn't know he was/is gay and frankly his personal sexual predilections are irrelevant to the situation. You and everyone else will notice that not ever once did I treat his sexual preferences with disrespect. I just used the same word he did when he started in with me... Specifically to show how inappropriate it was. I only used the word because he started with it. It's not a word I use in any other context, not even when describing wood.
Then he got pissed and wanted an apology. I hadn't done anything other than respond to his belligerence in exactly the same way he had behaved towards me. So I refused to be bullied into an apology when it was clear to me that he was in the wrong from the start.
Apparently he had tried at some point to private message me; since he was on ignore, I didn't see any such messaging. In fact, once someone else told me he had tried to do that, I took him off ignore and even tried to contact him via PM, with no response. That was the first of several attempts I made to try and settle things with him like an adult. Every attempt I made was ignored or rebuffed- that's on him, not me.
Then he started a monumentally childish and abusive tirade, not only in the politics section but everywhere else he saw me posting, in the hope of discrediting me. Worse, in spite of being gay himself and being upset about the perceived slight about the name, he tried to shame me with doxxed pics from off the forum that discuss my own sexuality. That's just totally hypocritical and disrespectful. I notice that you just tried the same thing, so you clearly have no respect for the sexual rights of others, yet here you are still trying to get me to apologise to soothe the hurt sexual identity of your friend. Your hypocrisy climbs into the realm of the ironic!
Instead of trying to de-escalate the situation, he went to every forum and thread he could find that I posted in and doxxed me in blatant violation of RIU TOS, nevermind the socially accepted norms of common decency. He ended up getting himself banned and costing himself a great deal of respect in his toweringly poor handling of a misunderstanding born in a night of drinking online.
I have nothing to apologise for and I will not do so just because his buddies want to defend his outrageously abusive behavior out of some misguided sense of loyalty.
Now I don't expect you to have enough class to see my point of view. I hope I'm incorrect in my assessment of your character. Nevertheless, I have enough respect for you to spend the time to sincerely share my honest point of view.
The same goes for @cannabineer @curious2garden and everyone else who's climbed onto his bandwagon.