And despite all the years of protests, etc. etc, it took years for the majority of society to catch up.
I'm just saying, acting like an asshole, like the assholes you are arguing against, isn't going to get you where you want to be quicker. It will take you longer.
Calling out bigotry only equals “being an asshole” to the bigots. Most reasonable people call the bigotry “being an asshole”, not the calling it out.
Again, your take simply flies in the face of every civil rights movement we know about. None of them would’ve been successful if they’d listened to you and just not called the oppression what it was.
Black people didn’t make the civil rights progress they did because they were nice and didn’t call racists racist. The opposite, in fact, they fought their asses off for those rights.