You may be right, but I approached it with the idea that he had already made one assholish statement and so there was a higher probability that he was an asshol

You may be right, but I approached it with the idea that he had already made one assholish statement and so there was a higher probability that he was an asshole in general. It takes one to know one, I suppose, but I try to limit my assholishness to people who have already demonstrated a good bit of their own.