Any of you cuntservatives boycotting AB and Chick-Fil-A?

It's pretty cut and dry to people who don't really care about trans people, too. People, who aren't knowingly affected by an issue, can much more easily not care about it and much more easily "be above it" and discuss it in an "objective," dispassionate way. In fact, violence by anti-discrimination activists can bother them much more than discrimination (including fatal violence) against marginalized people. Some people still shit on abolitionist, John Brown, more than they do the brutal enslavement of black people in the U.S. (and they're not all foaming at the mouth, anti-black racists).

That said, I think that, if violence is used, it should be used effectively to move closer towards a positive goal. Just lashing out can scare people into accepting some positive change. But that will tend to come from larger scale violence. Just assaulting this woman or an alt-right leader allows them to play on their victimhood, allows people who were already opposed to positive change to point to the assault and hide their bigotry behind criticism of the assault, and turn off people who were hypothetically on the fence.

Don't agree? Look at how our governments and right wing organizations have infiltrated activist groups and peaceful protests to encourage violence and property destruction. Violence that isn't well-thought-out tends to not only be ineffective, but also counterproductive. If the opposition wants us to do that, why play into it?