It’s been about a week since I published The Bad Apples Of GamerGate, and it’s spread far and wide on social media, with lots of excellent commentary.

Interestingly, and perhaps not surprisingly, not a single Gamergater has stepped forward to say “hey, maybe we shouldn’t be lending support to these people.” The overwhelming response from the movement has been either accusations of cherrypicking or accusations of outright fabrication, despite the reference links for nearly every statement.

This demonstrates to me the fatal flaw of the GamerGate movement: it is obsessed with self-preservation over all else. I’ll illustrate that with one particularly disgusting example.

Twitter user @Partisangirl is a woman of Syrian origin now living in Australia who has come to prominence for her YouTube videos in which she blames the international Jewish conspiracy for a host of problems in the world. She also claims that videos of ISIS beheading aid workers are fake, and posted in support of Islamic terrorist groups like the Mahdi Army, who attacked U.S. forces in 2004.

She began discussing #GamerGate in September with this video, in which she advanced the “collusion and corruption” narrative and decried the opposition as “cultural Marxists.” It was widely hailed by the movement and retweeted hundreds of times.

They obviously didn’t take a second to see who their new ally was.

Her first tweet, upon joining Twitter in 2011, read

Five U.S. pigs fall in Iraq

and linked to a news story about the deaths of five American soldiers. The tweet has been deleted. She has since supported many other parties who have engaged in military action against the United States.

Why would @RogueStarGamez, a proud ex-Marine who posts multiple pictures of himself and his company, associate with someone who cheers the deaths of his brothers in arms?

I don’t know, but he does it all the time.

Why would @J_millerworks, a Black man from Detroit, associate with somebody who just a few weeks ago cozied up with former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke on his radio show?

I don’t know, but he does it too.

And that’s just two prominent supporters. Dozens of other GamerGaters happily, unquestioningly welcome @PartisanGirl into the fold.

GamerGate refuses to criticize — let alone denounce — any individual who supports the tag, creating a whirling vortex of increasingly terrible people with only one goal:

Keep GamerGate going. Keep the harassment going. Because nothing else matters to them.