Okay, so under pressure, he reached for the wrong words, got mixed up which side of his brain the “respectful correction” was located on and came up with a “fuck you” instead. A terrible accident, no doubt, but this seems like a kind of gray situation. While a “mild rebuke” consisting of the judicious application of non-harsh (or, as the more politically correct term goes “less harsh”) words was clearly justified, I think you could make the case that harsh words were also justified.
We should tempter justice with mercy and demand that the warning be replaced with a very strongly worded mod note. Unfortunately, it seems this forum wants its cake and to eat it too. They want to be safe from misrepresentation but then question the manner in which misrepresentation gets called out. They don’t like the answer “it was time to not be nice.”
[/pkbites testifying in his own defense]