"Gamergate happened because gamers hated women" "Animemes revolt happened because they hated trans people" "Christians want to kill queer people and want all women to be handmaidens"
Why do they keep making up these kind of lies? They always ignore what people actually say or what actually happened, and keep making up lies about people.
They use them like literal scare-crows. Scary caricatures stuffed with straw to keep the easily spooked away, so they can't look too closely at what they might otherwise want underneath.