Chad Perrin said:
As far as I
can tell, he didn't speculate about the motives of those who disagree
with him: he just speculated about the motives behind some (possibly
inaccurately perceived) class of postings to Wikipedia.
He did not speculate. He stated it as a fact.
Suppose he had speculated, though, why would he choose to make such a
damaging, bad faith, unsupported, and frankly malicious speculation?