Abuse by avs for legit political view, responded with same then reported and suspended 1 day. Unjust

[Queen Bluestar]

I have legit political views in my profile, neither anti- any sector nor hate inspiring, but challenging the public view of a last taboo. On the back of this several avs who came to the small empty area I was in circa 6pm slt (I am gmt England) and after a time of swearing and generally acting as street as they thought was clever, sexually explicite etc in voice, one av started to abuse my political view in voice to the others, and was pushing for general harassment and abuse of me. She kept moving around and hiting my av with hers, which I consider bullying, bearing in mind I was there for peaceful purposes and she and her crowd were foreced the because of griefing of the local sandbox. In the end I responded to them in the same terms and level as they choose to communicate, after all being civil was obviously another minus to them and some sign of weakness, though in text not voice, and now find I have a 1 day supension, even though the intolerance and harassment came from this one av, stiring her friends to insult me. HOW does this happen? HOW do I get this injustice recognised annd revoked? I have events to attend this afternoon slt and will be forced to miss them because 1 avatar does not like my politics? This is abuse.

[Lyra Blackthorne]

Contact LL, this is a resident only forum.  If you are premium account, you can go to Live Chat and actually talk to someone

[Innula Zenovka]

The basic rule is that you don't respond to griefing by counter-griefing.  

If they took exception to your profile (and, having just had a look at it in world, I think I can guess what upset them), they should have AR-d your profile rather than griefed you.  

However, you should have responded by muting them, ARing them, and then tp-ing off somewhere else or sitting on a box so they couldn't push you.

There's some very useful general advice (though some of it is outdated in the specifics) here: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Fr43k_Paine/Dealing_With_Griefers