If GAF was centrist left, then:
Joe Rogan wouldn't be labeled Alt Right
H3H3 wouldn't be labeled Alt Right
Theneedledrop wouldn't be labeled Alt Right
This right here is an interesting one. Since the article itself never claimed any such thing. Just that he associated with people who did toe those lines, such as Sargon of Akkad. And his defenses for associating with such people ended up being super flimsy. He knew exactly who he was, but camped for him to be unbanned on Twitter and shit anyway.
But that aside, it's definitely interesting how this whole "alt right" thing became a talking point in that thread, since that was never the main problem to begin with and half the article was about his association with people like Sargon and the Amazing Atheist and stuff, which was barely addressed anywhere and people tried to sweep under the rug just like he did and refused to admit the problem was anything other than just him being accused of being "alt right." Like you're doing here. Just constructing your own narrative, when that was never the problem to begin with. But it's all the people who defended him could talk about--how we was accused of being "alt-right' (which the original article never did either way--and ignoring everything else. That's what concerned me about that thread.
And H3H3 isn't someone I'd go near either now. Nothing to do with being "alt-right" or whatever. Again, a complete strawman. The stuff about him gaslighting a victim of sexual harassment who opened up to her and then even after his "apology" there being screens and shit of him doubling down on that stuff and despite his apology, saying in fact that he still doesn't believe any of that, completely undermining the apology and proving that he was in fact full of shit all along.
And then there was all the stuff about him going after the WSJ guy before that, when he turned out to be innocent of what H3H3 accused him off, when he tried to just sweep it under the rug and still act like he was right all along the whole time and "just didn't have enough real, iron-clad proof" after-all, contrary to his initial claims. And that proof never did end up coming... But he still insisted he was right, and just deleted everything and tried to bottle it all up as if it didn't happen, and as if he didn't try to essentially mobilize his entire fanbase against some guy who worked for the WSJ who turned out to be innocent of what he accused him of. Doesn't work that way (at least it shouldn't, but alas...). Whether he's alt-right or whatever is just a complete strawman, completely beside the point, and has nothing to do with anything.
He's still someone who I want nothing to do with and cannot support for reasons such as that, nothing to do with some strawman of him being alt-right or whatever. Which you'd understand if you took the time to read those threads on the subject in good faith, but they're all gone now, so alas...