In fact, my behaviour is a direct response to what I'm shown. Thus if you post politely I respond politely. If you post with accusations and personal insults I respond with the same attitude.
You responded to my post as if I'd addressed you, when in fact I was responding to Kimmy's post and expressing some thoughts of my own. In my response to Kimmy's post, I didn't insult anyone - especially not you. I did ask some questions about the way in which language reflects what we believe and how it can influence perception, but again this did not mention
you at all. I took pains to talk about what I wanted to talk about without being specific. I also asked "questions" rather than making accusations, in the hope of inspiring "discussion" instead of endless sniping.
You took my post that was
not a response to you,
did not mention you and
did not even remotely insult you as a personal affront, and used it as an excuse to attack and insult me. If you are going to take any comment I make within a topic that you are also posting in as an insult to you, that is
your problem. If you think that including the word 'conservatives' in a remark that is not complimentary to conservatives is a personal insult to you, let me remind you of the many comments you make about leftists that leftists are not supposed to respond to as if they've been personally insulted.
Once again, perhaps you should try modeling the behavior you expect from others.
Edited to clarify: my post that you over-reacted to was actually intended to challenge Kimmy a bit; she can at least respond reasonably and logically. I can count on her to effectively point out the flaw in any argument using reasoning, rather than relying on wild accusations and insults to 'prove' someone wrong.