But I would note that "there are better ways to make those arguments" is quite a distance from your original position.
> When I was young and stupid, I used to believe that transgender was really, really dumb. That they were looking for attention or making it up or something along those lines.
> And then I grew older and wiser and learned – hey, transgender isn’t stupid at all, they have very important reasons for what they do and go through and I was atrociously wrong. And I said a mea culpa.
> The point is not "accepting people different than me", it's "having suitable principles to still fight in favour of people I might otherwise rightly or wrongly dislike".
> You completely removed the part where he not only didn't act antagonistically towards them but actively opposed other people doing so as well.
What word other than "sinister" would you use to characterize the cluster of words I quoted which are implicit in the writing I quoted?
The article was about somebody who was arguing that using falsified numbers about rape statistics was not only acceptable feminism but was actually a good thing and that anybody who disagreed with that deserved to be destroyed.
Speaking as somebody who believes that the truth is quite sufficient justification for feminism to win, and that lying serves only to hand our enemies means to attack us, I believe that sadly we live in a world where that argument does need to be made.
I would prefer to live in a word where these arguments don't need to be made. I would prefer to live in a world where those truths are self evident.
But we don't yet, as both Adria Richards and David Shor have found out to their detriment. So making the argument that we should continues to be valuable.