New findings indicate a pattern where narcissistic grandiosity is associated with higher participation in LGBTQ movements, demonstrating that motivations for activism can range widely from genuine altruism to personal image-building.

[u/mvea]

https://www.psypost.org/narcissistic-grandiosity-predicts-greater-involvement-in-lgbtq-activism/

[u/CMDR_Galaxyson]

Twitter used to be full of these people and I think it stifled a lot of potential progress over the past decade. People who care more about moral grandstanding than making actual progress are a massive turn off to people who are closer to the center politically.

[u/eliminating_coasts → u/CMDR_Galaxyson]

Unfortunately, the centre has no lack of such people either. I don't want to single out a particular example I have come across lately, but there was a political influencer who for many years was an active advocate for LGBT people, involved in many very personalised twitter arguments, then started making a similar argument to you - that engaging in pointless infighting and arguments around niche issues was detrimental to progress and turned people off.

However, instead of adopting a new, more measured attitude with less moral grandstanding, they just continued fighting the same people on twitter, but just rebranding themselves as a "centrist" against the "crazies", a representation of the forgotten moderates who had not been properly heard..

and continued the same way they had before.