Good mod. This should be stickied.
Back to the OP. This is what goons do. They didn't invent any of their techniques or have an actual playbook at first (although by now, I wouldn't be surprised if they had a few 'best practices' documents as guidelines- it's just not likely for them to produce written doctrine, because they are a clique and cliques don't need to continually train new recruits and move them up the line- their doctrine will be presented publicly and people have to fall in line in order to start merging into the clique) but they use what works for them.
Toxic goon culture always involves an attempt to take over moderation or administration of any group, so they can favor their own. You can observe this type of clique formation and infiltration in literally any social group. For example, I had to deal with a bunch of pseudo-hippie drug dealing kids and their clique trying to get into the music scene and various venues. They get themselves hired on in places, they spread rumors about people they like, they try to get as much social power as possibly and then use it against their 'enemies.'
So we're not dealing with anything new to human nature or experience, we're dealing with cliques of people and their inevitable thirst for power and a bigger stick to use against other people just for the hell of it. And SJW-goonism provided them with a very, very big stick, a glitched weapon against which people couldn't defend.
Suddenly, you could attack someone for being 'problematic' or 'bigoted' or 'privileged' and they had no defense. And so the twin poisons have flowed and flowed deep, one of them being the acceptance of progressive culture and the other being the big stick used to attack people for their transgressions, and there will always be transgressions made, or found, or inferred.
And now they're in Twitter, and they're in Intel, and this shouldn't surprise anyone. They'll try to demoralize you and tell you that you caused it by 'attacking' them, that you somehow gave them relevance or exposure or sympathy that helped them on their way. This is a lie. They always would have gotten there. They got everywhere else just fine.
But remember how I said that there is nothing, absolutely nothing new to what they are doing? People in bigger corporate cultures aren't strangers to bullshit artists and cultish groups trying to get a foothold. They have an outpost at Twitter, the famous clown car which drove into a goldmine, and that's one of the best things they could do.
They don't actually create. (Phil Fish was a thief) They can't really code. They aren't doers, they just want the cachet and praise for 'doing'.
They are a generation of people who saw the "be a video game tester and make big money" ads with the xbox controller, and the morons clicked it. They are the generation of people who were kids and saw actual game designers in the spotlight and wanted to be like that but with cooler hair and some piercings and some edgy tattoos, but without all the hassle of programming or development.
To understand where they have totally failed, you need to understand where they are and where they AREN'T, how scams work in silicon valley and how their absense there means they still haven't hit the big leagues, and still won't, because even for the scammy startup funding round situation you actually need a real education, you need real skills, and you need real talent.
Show me a SJW who took something through Ycombinator to launch, and I'll show you someone who was just pretending in order to fuck chicks with dyed red hair.
It's irritating, vexing, and annoying that they have a foothold at Twitter. It means they get to influence discussion. It means they can abuse their power against internet consumers, and believe me, when you use Twitter, you're being an internet consumer.
But be very aware, those posittions are a token, it's an also-ran prize for people who couldn't cut it.
