I don't like to nitpick word choices on HN comments, but since you used the word three times in this one: I believe you meant "equated" (to imply that two ideas are equal), and not "equivocated" (to show uncertainty, or to waffle).
In most of my uses, the popular sense also applies, "the use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself; prevarication."
If you read the briefs put out by the WG against Tim and others, they are engaged in equivocation which has the effect of equating, say, mentioning the difficulties experienced in a sexist work organisations with advocacy of sexism (the converse position).
