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Illuminoius posted...

she basically said "try to convince regular people with calm reasoning, but don't give the people who are in the power to invalidate your life any sort of respect because they're too rich to care and don't want to engage in good-faith arguments and will not change their stance"

and yeah, why should the queer community be quiet and respectful towards the people who want us silenced and call us pedophiles? why should we respect the loud, angry politicians that are scum and are creating so many terrible bills? you can reasonably change the mind of a common person but those people are lost causes

And I certainly recognize that as a valid position. I personally disagreed slightly because I felt that "bad people" brush was applied a bit too strongly. I don't think these people are as hateful as Contrapoints or you seem to think. But I can understand, particularly from how an emotional point of view one might feel that way.

I also disagreed with the idea that calmness with them was effectively a lost cause. I think calm rational discussion is almost always going to be the best approach.

But hopefully it goes without saying that just because I have a different opinion doesn't mean I don't recognize the opinion being discussed as valid.