> If someone else takes issue with my pov, they can also take solace in knowing I don’t respect them as people I won’t ever acknowledge.

This is a strange perspective. Do you think if I went through the heroes of your own ethnicity that I would find exclusively people with noble moral systems that would respect me and what I stand for? Should I "refuse to acknowledge" you if you admire your culture's historical figures in opposition to my dislike of them, or their dislike of me?