@bookish1, I don’t know anything about the workings or strategies of that particular organization, other than what’s lodged in the public awareness and seeps through the media. But I think the PC movement has been a boon to all sorts of extremists and crackpots, every bit as much as it has opened the way for groups that have legitimate claims. I think many have taken advantage of society’s paralysis as soon as a loaded word such as “discrimination” is uttered to press forward with demands that may or may not actually represent some group.
If you were a hate-mongering nut case wanting to stir up trouble and mount an assault on some big, faceless Them (never thinking that or caring that Them is composed of thousands of little Usses<—plural of “Us” is what we have there), wouldn’t you enlarge and strengthen your base as much as possible by appealing to whatever group you could claim identity with and promoting their cause—making sure that your own was embedded in it somewhere?
The more afraid the general population is to say “Whoa—aren’t you going a bit overboard there? Let’s talk sense, shall we?” the more hospitable we seem to be to vocal, disruptive elements of any stripe.