At the very least it put some buffer up against the gate popularized bad-faith questioning tactic of saying shit like “um excuse me could you kindly point out one example of (obvious fucking thing that the bad faith questioner refuses to see)? You can not use any sources that I see as woke or having an agenda/narrative. I’ll wait.”

The most glaring example of that I ever ran into was a gater that pulled that about proving was a racist. Yes, this was years after the “they’re not sending their best” speech.