One of my least-favorite things ever is “attacking one social ill by making use of another.”

Like fighting sexism with ableism: “Classically-nerdy communities have some serious entrenched issues with corrosive views towards women. As if anyone would want to date those fat, socially inept losers anyway.”

Or fighting homophobia with classism: “The American South has a ton of rampant casual homophobia. Clearly, everyone below the Mason-Dixon line is an inbred pigfucker who can’t tell right from wrong.”

Or fighting terrible discourse norms with a whole cocktail of awfulness: “This online community harasses and doxxes any of its members who break from the party line. See, this is inevitable when you get a bunch of coddled teenage special-snowflake SJWs together.”

If you’re going to criticize someone’s bad behavior, please do, but keep a tight focus on their behavior and don’t drift into character-assassination or regressive stereotyping. “People who do bad things are the people at the bottom of the social ladder” implies the reverse, and we have enough of that already.