There’s an implied dare. The game being, “You won’t do what’s needed, despite our alarming and menacing behaviour, because you’re nicer than us, less vain, and not unhinged, and so we can dominate you and terrorise you, and break your stuff, for as long as we want, for shits and giggles.”
Well. I would suggest that the activists’ own actions render their wellbeing of very low importance.
On progressive concern for the wellbeing of burglars; on erotic entanglements with pets; on denouncing those who notice things; and when it turns out that there is a time and place for running people over.
Adrift in the dictionary.
That a California legislator is incapable of distinguishing victims from vigilantes is unsurprising.