In the spirit of unapologetic bothsidesism, I think it's intellectual malpractice to set yourself up as a defender of "enlightenment values" if all you do by way of practice is obsess over culture war stuff and run gotcha own-the-sjws special ops missions.
Whatever the threat level, it doesn't excuse the *defenders* from meeting a standard of competence and credibility and also establishing the honesty and best faith of their own bona-fides.