https://www.resetera.com/threads/empathy-is-not-enough-part-1-how-empathy-became-a-buzzword-in-the-games-industry.108254/I'm not reading that whole article, TBH, so this isn't actually a criticism of the article, because I don't know what it says. But I'm using it to springboard off of to talk about empathy.
One of my biggest gripes with RE is that they've twisted and mutated such a wonderful thing like empathy to mean something completely different: hating the right people. Real empathy is different. If someone hates their oppressors, real empathy doesn't require you hate them too. Real empathy doesn't require you agree with a person, or think what they're doing is right.
In fact, true empathy requires you try to understand the oppressor, too. Understand why they believe what they believe. Understand what makes them tick. Understand what parts of their beliefs and behavior are their fault, and which ones aren't.
Instead, RE's view of empathy is like a high school girl listening to her friend cry about how horrible her boyfriend is and just nodding and saying, "Yeah, he's the worst!" without looking further into it to see what is true and what's not. It's such an incredibly juvenile view of empathy, and then someone comes along that expresses true empathy for all parties, and they have the gall to shout, "HAVE SOME EMPATHY, YOU HUMAN GARBAGE!"