This is a microcosm of the TRA movement. It's fascinating. Can't possibly concede that the people deemed evil terf bigots may have a point, so defend, deflect, minimise and misconstrue. Even if it makes you look unreasonable and frankly weird. Fascinating.
Totally agree. It really does show the mindset. Reflexive compulsion to oppose the bad guys.
James Lindsay wrote a bit about the Woke Breaking Point last year.
Almost everybody has a Woke Breaking Point. [...] Or, at least, they should.
There should always be a line that, once crossed, signifies to someone that the ostensibly good or noble thing they currently support has soured or, as the case may be, gone completely bad. [...]
People really should as themselves what their Woke Breaking Point is. There must surely be something that they would not defend in the name of their "right side of history".
What I realized is how very helpful it is for people, rather than becoming confrontational, to encourage their Woke-sympathetic friends to start identifying and naming what their non-negotiable lines will be. People’s lines will—and should—vary, but as things get increasingly extreme, they will also get crossed more and more certainly. Knowing the line has been crossed, however, takes knowing there is a line and where it is.