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?
I've gotten to the point where I don't. I like this analogy of a rotten ship where the crew are actively hacking away at the hull trying to make it sink faster, and a very small minority of people on board (us) realize the absurdity of doing so.
Instead of trying to convince the crew to stop doing that, it's a more productive use of limited time to try to construct life rafts. If people eventually come to their senses then there's the life raft for them. If they don't then you haven't wasted a bunch of energy trying to save someone who doesn't want to be saved.
I don’t think we’re at the point of the ship being unsalvageable yet.
When did police disappear, activist DAs drop cases, and governors tell us it's "a summer of love", only when antifa inflicts violence on the public.