I was surprised by the downvotes I got for this, so I wanted to clarify my point. If you have a cause that you are interested in, making a public statement abo

I was surprised by the downvotes I got for this, so I wanted to clarify my point. If you have a cause that you are interested in, making a public statement about it will either help or hurt that cause, depending on how that statement is received by your audience. Some people don't realize this, but being correct (or passionately believing you are correct) has little bearing on how your argument is perceived. You can be right, but if your delivery is abrasive, the world (assuming your cause is just) would have been better off if you just kept your mouth shut. Statements like the one I originally replied to are (imo) examples of people being harmful to their own cause. Insulting, shaming, browbeating, etc, will rarely gain you any ground, and will likely actually galvanize people against you and your cause.