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Nerds are very often too shy. They are not willing to go to the extreme. Radical feminism has a lot of influence on our society and plenty of members of that community don't hold back at all.
Bending your own views to be avoid offending other people leads to being perceive as inconfident. It's not authentic. That's bad for movement building.
I think you are making a mistake if you treat the goal of every project as being about affecting public policy. Quite often you don't need a majority. It's much better to have a small group of strongly committed people then a large group that's only lukewarm committed.
Mormons who spent 2 years doing their mission are extreme. Mormonism is growing really fast while less extreme Christian groups don't grow. Groups that advocate extreme positions give their members a feeling that they are special. They are not boring.
In the scarce attention economy of the 21st century being boring is one of the worst things you can do if you want to speak to a lot of people.
Mormon missions are not primaritly there to gain converts. They are there to force the Mormon to make a commitment of time and resources to Mormonism so that the sunk costs would psychologically tie him to the religion.
(Of course, it wasn't necessarily consciously designed for this purpose, but that doesn't prevent the purpose from being served.)
That's part of the point. If you want strong changes in society than you need to do movement building. That means you don't focus on outsiders but on strengthing the commitment inside the movement.