[quote=Rich Toscano]
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As for the second part of your email, I really, really dislike it when people accuse me of being dishonest. Because I’m not dishonest. So it is offensive to me when people assume dishonesty rather than a simple miscommunication.
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Next time there is a disagreement, please, ask me about it before accusing me of being a liar.[/quote]
Wow.
This really went in a direction I did not intend.
I was intending to poke fun at a perceived inconsistency in your position.
The way I phrased it was poorly constructed and not well thought out.
Thus in the over-literal monotone of text my attempt a jocularity was both accusatory and generally dickish.
The fact that it was said with a grin did not convey and instead my post presented as literal and explicit denigration to your integrity in a public way.
That was not my intention at all and for the result I apologize sincerely.
It was quite foolish on my part to phrase it as I did in writing.
While I have enjoyed the few verbal joking debates that I have had with you, this is not the first time, I made a (written) joke with you that was taken very differently than I intended.
The fault is nobody’s but mine for misreading the social dynamic.
Apparently it takes me a few times of committing such errors to comprehend the pattern but it is very clear to me now.
From this point forward I shall undertake to keep my written communication with you very literal.
I do not think of you as a liar and I really did not mean to go in that direction.
I do not think that perceptual inconsistency denotes (or even necessarily connotes) dishonesty.
I take reputation as it regards personal integrity very seriously.
If someone accused me publicly of dishonesty (which, again, I did not mean to do but apparently did) I would take a very dim view of it (and likely address it with an attorney).
Again, my apologies.
