This thread is a salient example of the right winger drive to frame it as an insane TRANS leftist attack, and it's been echoed by mainstream media and the President of the United States of America. I have no doubt there's fringe conspiracy people on the left doing as you say, but they're hardly comparable.
There are absolely a bunch of dipshits online from #bothsides but let's not delude ourselves into thinking that it's predominantly the right leading the violence and hate-filled rhetoric. There's another board to discuss that if you'd care to actually talk facts on that more poltical topic.
I'm not sure, aside from furries are a common punching bag in online spaces and a silly thing to meme on. They're often cited as an exmaple of "woke run amok" because humans are acting like animals - think "litterboxes in classrooms". Hell, an internal tool I frequently use at work gives me results as "uWufirstoutput.zip" because the memelord that wrote the tool years ago did it, and nobody has bothered to change it. It's just a weird part of internet culture