I’m not sure how else to put it. As an example, someone who cares about issues of LGBTQIA+, but when it comes to issues of capitalism pushing exploitative practices in video games, they are siding against the player and doing the “it’s on you how you spend” shtick.

I suppose another way to frame this would be “how do you deal with selective empathy?” Because that seems to be how it in some cases, that the person cares about the thing that personally impacts them, but otherwise, they’ll side with the exploiter in a heartbeat.

It disgusts me when I see it in action, so much so I almost wrote this as a rant post in the comradelyrants section instead. But I feel it’s a topic that deserves more discussion attention than that.

In general, the mindset that goes something like:

“So this company dropped some spikes on the sidewalk.”

“Well I think if somebody stepped on them, that’s on them. It’s really obvious that they are there and I went out and walked just fine and had a good time, I just walked on the grass to get around the spikes.”

The implication: individuals should be expected to change their lives to accommodate the careless, dangerous, or otherwise predatory behavior of others and if they don’t, it’s their fault.

Like what kind of poor excuse for humanity is this stuff.