opportunity to evaluate how I can be more kind, more tolerant, and less demeaning and childish in my online interactions.

Taking issue with anyone that's encouraging us to raise the bar on our conduct is probably an indicator that the arrow at least grazed the target.

If everyone were to take a second before hitting the post button, (myself included), and took a minute to file down the barbs and splinters in their posts, the quality of discourse here would be elevated.