I don't think I've ever seen a group turn on their own as hard as the SJW community and, let me tell you, I've seen some really toxic groups.
I've seen this behavior before actually, York. If you'll forgive me for bogarting your profiling skills a moment, I'd like to exposit some analysis.
Again - I've seen this before. Mostly with religious and political extremists.
And though I fucking
hate bringing them up again, it's time for us to harken back to the be-all, end-all of pre-internet attention whores, the Westboro Baptist Church.
For the uninitiated, Pastor Fred Phelps started this ministry with the express statement of saying everyone not a member of his tiny family church was a sinner condemned to the fires of hell for all eternity, since that's a thing. His group gained notoriety for showing up during funerals and harassing family members of gay people who had lost their lives to disease or violence - especially the latter. They got so vitriolic and so assholish about it that entire groups got established to specifically get between the protestors and the funeral processions to prevent them from fucking things up.
As time went on, the WBC got increasingly bold trying to establish presence, picketing the funerals of soldiers, sending members of the church to "friendly" conservative commentators (some of whom exploited this tactic to turn this bullshit around; see earlier post on Hannity calling them out on their shit), and generally acting like a lolcow in meltdown mode. All of this was intended to raise their presence and get word out about their righteous crusade.
Not all of the Phelps clan was on-board with this shit. One of Fred's sons escaped and has given many,
many interviews of just how impossibly fucked-up their family was. But the biggest bombshell was yet to come when Pastor Fred finally realized that social progress intended to leave his church by the wayside and render it irrelevant - and, in a shocking change from the norm,
admitted his church may have come across as too heavy-handed. Self-awareness set in - and Pastor Fred Phelps had a moment of clarity.
His church responded by having him excommunicated under suspicions of homosexuality.
He lived out the rest of his life alone and disgraced.
This sort of "toe our line or be destroyed" is a very common tribal mindset. Traditionally, it's been the purview of retrograde assholes who think that the world was a better place back when women couldn't vote and those fucking darkies knew their place, but as we've seen here, it's by no means limited to them. If a community, regardless of political striping, religion, creed, or belief, allows itself to isolate itself via intense ideological purity, this is the kind of horse-shit inevitably follows. They're just one more iteration of this pattern, which dates back through human history and covers similar acts of tribal "think like we do or GTFO" idiocy - for a very recent example, you can look at
how fucked-up several people in Congress are, who essentially
got to their position by being bug-fuck insane.
The so-called SJWs, much like their counterparts on the other side of the issue,
cannot be reasoned with. The ones that
aren't idiots and
aren't ideological puritans are likely to get torn to shreds if they
ever show leniency or subtlety, and thus, in the land of madness,
the craziest motherfucker is queen. Someone who's on the other side of the aisle and
doesn't call for the extermination of anything associated with Gamergate is a threat to their existence - it would force them to realize that their opponents are, indeed, humans, and that would simply
complicate their world view too much. No,
better to scream like assholes at someone who just suffered a death in the family, making your entire movement look just as toxic as the so-called misogynist you claim to despise.
The thing is, this also makes them hilariously predictable, and, like all extremists, prone to idiotic, short-sighted actions, as we've seen when these so-called paragons of virtue proceed to threaten people, dox people, attempt to get people fired, DDoS people, and so on. The fact that they
are extremists, and the fact that even the merest
hint of negotiation reeks of outright betrayal means that Gamergate's victory is entirely assured.
And posting codes publicly on Twitter is a really stupid idea.
But I loved Psychonauts! 
