Deserve respect, get respect. It starts with you. And your posts. Not with rejoinders to them.
It is childish to increase one's message count by barking behind someone else.
I don't hold my opinions due to the prevailing wave, but according to my own independent assessment. The explanation given, the amplification of my opinion was the closest to what I believe, and I acknowledged that. It is not exactly that I don't buy the story; I believe that what happened is something commonplace, that both sides have been doing similar things for ages, and it is nothing to make a song and dance about.
I would rather have your respect on points of fact that I bring to the notice of members, than on opinions I hold. The day you give me respect for that is the day I will bask in the full happiness of a rare and deserved compliment.