So while they think it is good for the movement, it often causes issues in the field of debate.

They don't seem to realize that once you make that exception in your ideological framework in the hope of avoiding a backlash from negative public sentiment regarding a particularly emotionally volatile subject, you leave the rest of it vulnerable to being taken down. The continual backing down on this one particular topic (or a few particular topics) by various civil libertarian ideologies (including mainstream liberalism) has resulted in the regressive backlash that took hold in the 1980's to continue into the present, ultimately resulting in the rise of the Woke mentality and a rebirth of regressive right-wing thinking as a counter-backlash.