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This is revisionist as fuck. Just like modern complaints about "woke" and "cancel culture", most of people's feeling about these things being real come from reactionaries telling them that it's omnipresent and seeing a handful of exceptional cases. GG has a recorded history of being an impressively-orchestrated 4chan (etc) op, maybe the most successful that they ever had.
I was around for it, yes, but I also read research on it because the basic nature of the movement is an illusion created by enculturation, as I already indicated
I'm not saying there wasn't already a popular base for right wing aggrievement politics