Do uneducated people asking "Why do soo meny pepz hate Pitbullz" make you lose respect for the breed?

I respect the breed and think true APBT's are beautiful dogs. However, most people who , for the lack of a better term, consider themselves "pitbull faciers" hurt the breed tremendously with their lack of knowledge and idiotic comments. Its like the people who had German Shepherd "fighting dogs" when I was a kid. All they did was promote ill-tempered mongrels and give people the impression the GSD was an unreliable, dangerous dog.