This isn't the FOAD or nor FOAD thread but you asked generally about the impression some people (not all I underline) have of you.

Incendiary language comes in grades and that comment pretty high up there to be throwing it around.

It debases the currency a bit to use such terms liberally.

You could say something like "Sorry don't agree" or "I think that's unfair" or "that wasn't very nice" and create a different effect.

But the choice is yours it has to come from you.

If you really want to say "Fuck Off And Die" then say "Fuck Off And Die" and don't be surprised if people think of you as the FOAD guy and call you a brat.

Leonardo is now the "called Warb a brat" guy and has expressed a degree of regret which suggests it doesn't sit with how he sees himself.