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It was a reply. Replies tend to have the effect of singling out.
It was in response to this:
The point I was trying to make was that responding to someone with rudeness because you perceive their post as rude doesn't help anything or anyone, it is escalation as this is the internet and unless someone has explicitly been rude you lack the evidence by which you can be sure there was malicious/rude intent... there is no tone, no body language, no eye contact, no preceding context... the internet breaks all of that and time-shifts it a little. So... if you perceive that someone is being rude and you instantly respond by being blatantly rude... well how do you know if the other person wasn't just being flippant, or didn't think too hard, or was making a joke (and failed)... responding with rudeness unless you are 1000% sure is escalation on the internet.
That was my point, it was in response to your post. Perhaps I should've quoted it so that you could see that, which is kinda my point again... we can't be sure of intent so instead of rushing to the assumption that someone is slighting us, we should all attempt to take the standpoint that good intent was meant unless it's really freaking obvious that wasn't the case.