I'm afraid I can't agree with much of your post. I've been mulling this over for a bit, and it seems to me that you're making excuses for bad behaviour because said behaviour is motivated by an ideology, specifically an ideology you judge to be worthwhile.
But if you see someone from group X being (in your opinion) too rude or whatever then that doesn't mean you necessarily have a right to ignore them, discount them, or rant at them about how ineffective their methods are.
.. of course it gives you the right to ignore them, discount them and/or point out that they communicate poorly. The thing I think you're missing is that the 1% of people espousing a particular viewpoint poorly (rudely, violently, ...) are the ones that get 99% of the publicity. That might be in some ways effective, but I still don't condone such methods.
It's a hard point to make without sounding like an -ism denier, but a fair few people wandering around calling people on things are looking for the worst possible meaning in the words of others. I tend to question the motivation of people doing that, especially those who communicate poorly while doing so.
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.. of course it gives you the right to ignore them, discount them and/or point out that they communicate poorly. The thing I think you're missing is that the 1% of people espousing a particular viewpoint poorly (rudely, violently, ...) are the ones that get 99% of the publicity. That might be in some ways effective, but I still don't condone such methods.
It's a hard point to make without sounding like an -ism denier, but a fair few people wandering around calling people on things are looking for the worst possible meaning in the words of others. I tend to question the motivation of people doing that, especially those who communicate poorly while doing so.