Whatever the number, we do exist, we’re here. Better to encourage us than try to turn us away from conservatism with insults.
Why bother saying something like that, of course you are here, we have conservative individualists of many groups that are known as being liberal, but we can’t let people falsely try to change the general image of that typically liberal group, by portraying their rare conservatism as normal for that group.
For someone to attempt that deception is to raise the question of a camel’s nose under the tent, or a fifth column effort.