You make a mistake 3 years ago. Some would say it's silly. The real insight into your personality is not just the way you attack the people giving you a (mostly) good-natured hard time about it, but the way you use straw men and ad hominems to defend your argument, and posit that this is somehow a US vs. UK thing.
People wouldn't think you were a ****** if you'd just gone 'oh. well, I don't think the context made sense in the story as told, so I disagree.' Your reaction makes people think you're a ******. Your inability to see it from another point of view (which you point out in everyone else) makes you a ******.
I can see how an intelligent person who hasn't heard of William and Mary might make the first few posts you made. It's much harder to see how an intelligent person makes the rest.
If we all put the people who thought we were ******ed on ignore, 2+2 would be a lonely place.