It's old school subversion. The subverting parties attempt to push both sides of divisive arguments from extreme angles until whatever topic they want eliminated is declared verboten. At some point the admins may have to cull bad actors so that they can't poison all discourse. I don't envy them the task, as no matter what they do mistakes will likely be made.

A general rule of thumb is that anyone pushing against or promoting a position primarily with slurs and insults rather than facts and evidence is a bad actor. It doesn't really matter what the position is, or how "dumb" it is. Anyone calling for censorship of any topic is 100% always a bad actor / either sponsored by an org, or a useful idiot for one.