Everyone says this until it's your neighborhood hosting a protest.

And yet it's still true. If it comes down to my rights or your convenience, you're just going to have a bad day.

If you can't advance your position without being a dick to others, your position doesn't deserve to advance.

Well, then I suppose feminism, civil rights (to say nothing of ending slavery,) labor rights and literally every other right you enjoy didn't deserve to advance because all of them are the result of some people at some point at the very least being a dick to others.

If society at large is being a dick to me and my group as a whole, I'm likely to be an even worse dick to society at large, which is why protesting doesn't work for people like me because protesting is generally about very nice and calm about outrageous things and causing a bit of inconvenience, that is to say being not as bad as what one is protesting with the hidden message you don't want us to make things bad (I decided to drop the dick metaphor before it would have to get graphic)

on edit: not to mention I hate crowds.

Is this different than tone policing[1]?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_policing

What are your thoughts on, for example, dumping a boatload of tea into Boston Harbor?