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I agree with this. The liberal side has been for too long carving ourselves into "Holier than thou" people of who can be the most accepting. It creates a backfire that while you yourself are going for who can be the most accepting, they push away people who may just have one small idea that may need to be tweaked or altered. The problem is that it's much easier to push them away rather than invest time in understanding their viewpoint and asking them why they believe that. So they push away potential allies, and look right there the conservative movement has their arms wide open. "We don't think you're whatever-phobic or racist, you're welcome here, look we're all good people too!". And the right grows.
We tell Laura that she's not welcome because she's unsure if she should accept dragon-kin as a true gender ideology rather than just saying "That's okay, we'll chat about it", so instead she goes to the right who says "Oh you're not crazy at all, they're crazy!"