The main reason I can think of is if they would do the same thing, so they’re trying to pretend it “ok”
But other than that I am stumped.
Either that or it’s culturally ok to bully people here and if you don’t like it you are the problem but also you deserved it because you’re stupid
Any time I post on an American forum, I get everyone saying the treatment I receive is absolutely unacceptable and despicable. Any time I write the same on a forum in this country, 90% of people attack me and say the asshole “did nothing wrong” and I “deserved it” for being stupid
The issue with your premise is that it seems to imply that the people defending them also consider them to be assholes which most likely is not the case. So it’s not that they defend assholes - you simply just disagree who the assholes are.
Okay guess nobody is an asshole then