Yes, and it goes further: activists will sort into tiers of extremism and each tier will frame the less extreme actions of the tiers below them as supporting the status quo. It's the active ingredient in their recruiting pipeline. High tier extremism can't recruit directly from the general population but it can recruit from the tier below by guilt-tripping them for not doing enough.

If you don't decide to "support the status quo" at some point, you'll wind up in the deep end.