Mighty conflict of interest there, !
That issue was actually first raised by Calithena, former TheRPGSite poster, Fight On! editor and all-around cool guy. Everyone has flaws, that was his (and he might actually have been trolling).
Altogether, the furor over the Crusades is weird as hell. As far as I could tell, it mostly used to be viewed in historical canon as an exercise in futility: ephemeral crusader kingdoms, crusaders being cunningly manipulated in the Byzantine - Venetian shadow war, and the ultimate folly of the Children's Crusade. It was, if anything, being viewed as originally idealistic but ultimately foolish, a cautionary tale. How that has morphed into WHITEY BAD is a bizarre turn of events. Although it seems most of European history is viewed through the same lens, while, for example, the hideous slavery and near-genocidal wars endured by Europeans under the Turks is forgotten about, or written off as a minor event.
I didn't even hear (or at least don't remember) about the Ottoman Empire or the Islamic Slave Trade till someone brought it up during online discussions about how bad white people universally are, cuz slavery. The main focus in school was about our collective sin for slavery in the New World, particularly from Spain, since I live in a Hispanic island.
An obsession with numerology, secret messages, and hidden content on tapes played backwards is the ultimate sign SJWs have turned into a laughable copy of the Evangelicals. Except instead of wanting to burn your RPG books, they are... uh, they want to burn your RPG books? Yeah, it checks out. They are fundies, with a different set of books they are thumping instead of the KJV Bible.
I remember one enduring urban legend when I was a kid that would sometimes come up about how the Crest toothpaste company logo was Satanic. People would go on about the moon and the 13 stars, and how it was all low key Satanic symbolism (now I wonder if the 13 stars represented the 13 Colonies, since it's a 'Murican company). That's how insane people used to be during the Satanic Panic, they would desperately look for signs of Satanic worship in the back of toothpaste.
And we have the same thing now, only now it revolves around the Cult of Interactionality and the Church of Social Justice. I am convinced that there is a fundamentalist tendency in people that's tied to whatever prevailing narrative and dominant moral system in society, and that SJWs represent that new Moral Majority.