How?
When responding to what someone personally states, is it now a "personal attack" to respond to them "personally"????
Please explain to me, how your statement is valid. thanks.
By questioning or impugning their motives for saying what they said. If you can refute what someone said, refute it. If you don't understand what someone said, question it. Speak to the comments of others; not to your assumed reasons for their having made those comments.