I Love it! :) "You're a knight, aren't you?" as in Gotcha! :)) And if I were, would that give you satisfaction, that you were right about something? is this the extent your objectivity goes? Sad... BTW, I am not a knight, never was and never will be. But that is completely besides the point. 

So, let's get this staright: first, you find "knights" (the word you use is general, referring to all knight) pretentious. You loathe pretension. So, you loathe "knights." 

Then, you try to backtrack: "I don't loathe individual knights."

But then, you are "repulsed by their organizational ethos" because as a group (with all its members) they are "founded on pretension and status-seeking, and are seen as a means of social advancement and tactical career moves." 

In short, you don't loathe individual knights, but you are repulsed by everything that makes them a knight (and what they willingly accept as individuals, as their identity). 

In short, you loathe the knights. :)))