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?
Giving even a fragment of a damn what fence sitters say, is a waste of time and effort. The middle literally doesn't matter, and the apathetic middle matters even less.
I was the middle until quite recently. I was pushed to the right not by persuasive arguments from right wing evangelists, but by the behavior of the left. They are actual, biblical evil and I, as a moral person, cannot abide by their existence.
Anyone still willing to fence sit after the absolute fucking nightmare that was the past year, all perpetrated in the name of leftism, is not a fence sitter. They're either a coward or a communist wearing a mask
Careful. A lot of these people may be fence sitting in entirely good faith, they just haven't been sufficiently shoved off the fence yet by the left (everyone has a different breaking point). When they do, let's be welcoming.