> ... talk about the ways in which climate change is a crime against our children.
For example, how is this phrase supposed to work, rhetorically. Shaming people into joining your cause?
I do not believe that it would help. Respectability politics does not have an especially strong track record. Complaints merely shift.
I believe very deeply that climate change is a crime against our children. This is not me hyperbolizing.
The nazi party member Pascual Jordan contributed significantly to quantum physics but it's rarely mentioned because of that association. On the flip side, also the nazis ignored his suggestions for advanced weaponry, to their detriment I would imagine, because he valued jewish scientific contributions and so was considered unreliable politically. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascual_Jordan, discovered via AstroGeo podcast)
Also consider that you're on hacker news. Hacker ethics, or at least the version I've internalised, include judging people by what they say, not who is saying it (race, gender, and authority are commonly mentioned, but charismacy could also easily fall in that category)