Yes, but there is a point at whoch your movement is compromised so much that winning doesn't matter because the common goals of the movement are no longer desirable. I don't think we're anywhere close to that-- we're pretty firmly in "come on guys stop bikeshedding and work together" territory-- but it is important to know that it can swing too far the other way. That's how we got people saying "violence is bad, you have to hear the nazi out".
Fair. IMO it depends on how much you value being morally correct vs overall effectiveness of the movement. It could be worth it to compromise the integrity slightly if it will be much more effective. Not everyone would make that trade but I'm not here to argue against people who would.
It's true that not every question in politics has an absolute, factual answer. But some do, and there's a minimum standard of discussion below which people are just working with misinformation and will not be correct regardless of their goals.
Everyone's opinions don't matter the same. If I take the time and energy to understand a topic, my opinion has more weight than Joe Schmo who looked it up on Facebook. As Isaac Asimov said:
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'
You hit the nail on the head AND provided clear action items. Excellent post.
I do think that it would be difficult to rebrand "feminism" and "patriarchy" because the terms are inherently gendered and are sometimes still being used for gendered purposes. We should definitely find new terms and be more accurate about the egalitarian movement being a new movement, or a rebrand of the more general parts of feminism, rather than trying to reuse the old movement's terms when it doesn't make sense.
Project 2025, deportations with no due process, ignoring court orders, destroying all sense of confidentiality to foreign adversaries in the govt, cutting every govt program that politically disagrees with them, starting a useless war with Iran, appointing the worst possible people to his cabinet, pardoning J6 terrorists and calling for the jailing of the J6 committee, trying to fire every judge who disagrees with him, dismantling and wasting our foreign aid resources, not to mention countless counts of lying, cheating, raping, scamming, corruption, hate, etc. Literally name a thing and he's done it. And this is just off the top of my head.
The "white" pixels are literally blue. The "black" ones can be considered gold due to the lighting.