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>"Saying you respect someone is meaningless if immediately followed up by a suggestion that they're just simplifying other peoples' "real work"

Why are respectful and critical mutually exclusive?

Do you believe that one negates the other?

It seemed to me he was recognizing her skill as a distiller of information. That's what a lot of her posts are, how is that disrespectful?

> simplify other people's hard work

I don't mean to pull the argument one way or another one. But, IMO simplifying other people's hard work is hard work too. At least I personally find it to be.

Depending on our experience we can understand OP as being respectful (or not). I would like to give her/him the benefit of the doubt.