Subject: Oh, I remember this one.
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Posted on: 2015-06-16 17:14:00 UTC
You throw out an insult, just twisty enough to be deniable, and then get offended when someone calls you on it. Good times! Makes whoever you're talking to look like a jerk (at a glance, anyway), as well as frustrating them, making it harder to stay calm in the discussion.
In this case, you said, about the permission process, which you first refer to as "hazing," "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
Now, because you established the subject in the previous sentence to be the permission process, there's only one way to read this: you first thought it was hazing (and thus, malicious), but then, uh… decided it was in fact merely stupidity on our part.
Iximaz, a permission giver themselves if I recall, took offense to this, and you backtracked by pretending they were misreading you (and therefore violating the Constitution).
The problem with this, of course, is that as pointed out, and especially given your long, long track record of calling PPC conventions, processes, and members stupid (or malicious), your meaning is quite clear. I remember you doing this nigh-on constantly in the old threads, and it being exhausting to try and stay polite and reasonable with someone who twisted not only your words, but their own.
Regardless, I make this point here not to try and sway you - that is clearly far beyond any of our efforts - but to hammer home the point, for anyone who's watching this without context, and at a glance, may think Iximaz is being too hard on you. I have seen this happen many times with aggressive, malicious people who thrive on taking offense after their insults are interpreted. There is no mistake here. You attacked people on this 'Board, you slung insults at members and all sundry, and this "walking on eggshells" excuse does not convince anyone who saw the argument that you are, or were, a victim.
