I appreciate the response and I feel like I understand the reasoning much better now.

I take things too literally, and am terrible at reading tone, hence my earlier confusion.

I should not have spoken up in ignorance and I apologize for any hurt I caused by doing so. I am blinded by my own biases and I promise I will try to break them over time.

I did get banned but I will just do my best to learn from that experience and move on.