@GeofCox @_bydbach_ @ChrisMayLA6 Could it be both? The extremists demonstrate what the reasonable people may become if there is no change. Perhaps exploitative people need to be scared out of their complacency. The exploiters are not reasonable people either.
@GeofCox @ChrisMayLA6 @woo @_bydbach_ Back in the nineties, when we were trying various means to get government to let us in round the table (as a very middle class campaign using strategic litigation to produce legal protections for trans people) I used to reassure the more shouty activists that we weren’t against them but rather appreciated the opportunity to position ourselves as ‘the people you’d rather be dealing with’.
@christineburns @GeofCox @ChrisMayLA6 @woo @_bydbach_ If you want to move the Overton window, you need to stake out a maximalist demand then position your real needs as "moderate" (but still better for you than the status quo.)
The far right are terrifyingly good at this.