"You have strong opinions."
My response: "Thank you! People with weak opinions aren't worth much energy. Thanks for using your energy for delivering a backhanded compliment. You gave me energy because I'm stronger than you'll ever be. Stay jealous."
Walk away & don't even give them a look back. Let people who think giving backhanded compliments is a good idea - suffer their own public consequences, when they run into people like me who bark back better & louder.
I am a proud cops hating, government mistrusting, strongly opinionated, Asian witchy bitch.