AITAH for blocking people after they kept twisting my words?
I (16F) was walking to the bus stop when Boy 1 and Boy 2 were walking behind me. I could mostly just see shadows behind me, so I lifted up my compact mirror to check who it was. My mirror looks a lot like a phone, so they thought I was recording them, but I genuinely wasn’t. For context, Boy 1 has previously been horrible to me and has told me to “end yourself,” and is overall aggressive towards me because I rejected his valentine proposal so I already don’t feel comfortable around him.
A couple minutes before my exam, Girl 1 (Boy 2’s girlfriend) confronted me asking why I was “recording her boyfriend.” I explained that I wasn’t recording anyone and that I was only checking who was behind me because I felt uncomfortable.
Then the conversation somehow turned into a completely different argument. Earlier that day, I had been talking to my friend about how Black women are statistically more likely to die in childbirth because they are sometimes dismissed medically or not taken seriously. I was talking about a wider social issue and not about Girl 1 specifically at all.
The problem is that Girl 1 somehow took this as me calling her racist, even though I repeatedly explained that I was NOT saying she or all white people were racist. I literally clarified multiple times that I was not calling them racist.
What I was trying to explain was that even if someone doesn’t intend to hurt your feelings, their actions can still affect you. I said that intent and impact are different things because I felt dismissed when Girl 1 was having a go at me.
Then Girl 2 got involved and started saying I was acting like every white person in the UK was racist and tries to say that the way boy 1 is my fault because of the way I rejected him (it was a public proposal btw) No matter how many times I explained myself, they kept misunderstanding or twisting what I meant.
Now apparently people are saying I “hate white people,” which is completely untrue.
Eventually I blocked them because the whole situation was exhausting and felt pointless since they had already decided what they wanted to believe.
AITA?