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expertise =/= authority.
one has expertise regardless of how another views them. it is when another somehow conflates the expertise with some sort of authority, that the terms get confused. it points directly to a core issue i have with many people, who look at some singular aspect of another (expertise, writing, action, whatever) and make that one aspect the entirety of how they see that other. like saying james brown's music sucks because he allegedly hit his wife. or dismiss everything bob black ever wrote because he allegedly snitched. to me, that is NOT critical thinking.