[steveklabnik]

I was speaking about the phrase in the abstract, first of all.

Second, mistercow discusses the context and the reasons it was said in this thread below, you should take it up with them.

[camelite]

What, exactly, are these abstract phrases of which you speak? Does how the phrase actually gets used matter to you? Or do we all get to invent imaginary conversations for abstract phrases and lilly-white motivations for our (imaginary) protagonists? You accused someone of ignoring context but you're inventing it.

[dyno12345]

I think the phrase is disrespectful in any context and all this talk of context and abstractness and strawpersons thereof are red herrings.