This is something you see often nowadays, especially on social media. Activists get some controversial policy approved, or censor some already-existing content. Yet if you protest it, you get the "dude why do you care" fence-sitters. They'll tell you that it doesn't matter that much and that both sides are silly anyway. Often these people are in complete support of said policy/censorship, but if you point it out they'll just tell you that those extremists don't represent them (because they're the enlightened "centrists", of course), and you get nowhere.
I feel like this is a big problem. How do you deal with this?
They're not fence-sitters. They're moderates at best. More likely is that they're hiding their power level to try and manipulate.
Ah, good, you've already figured it out.
It's taking a team of dudes and a piece of expensive heavy machinery to move that rock. All to appease a group that we've acknowledged is making dumb, stupid demands about irrelevant things.
Saying "we're not moving the boulder" is not dumb. What's dumb is allowing dumb people to bully you into expending resources on action that is irrelevant and changes nothing.
Moving that rock isn't going to change black incarceration rates. It isn't going to change black educational attainment. It isn't going to change black fatherlessness. It's not going to improve ANYTHING for black people whatsoever. Prior to this group's whining, that rock was just a rock. Nobody had called it a niggerhead in decades. To everyone around, that rock was a rock like any other.
They haven't removed some 1920's racism from the grounds. They've created an empty space where a rock used to be, and now everyone knows a bunch of angry black leftists made an empty space.
They should call the empty patch of ground a 'niggerspace'.
Just wanted to say I enjoyed your posts throughout this thread.
I enjoyed your username
Better times.