It's interesting you point this out. The whole 'you cannot act just as bad as them' schtick is why gamergate lost and the whole world went like how it did because of the fencesitters and centrists always there to control the tones. Now things are so goddamn bad for all of us, I bet some of them wished they could have done something differently. A lot of people may laugh about it, but I think gamergate really veered a lot of people to hold more "extreme" political leaning.