Yes, we absolutely fucking are.
You know who we're not supposed to feel any empathy at all for?
People dense enough to not understand the difference between a joke a frustrated person made in the moment to intimate friends vs a scripted joke a comedian tells on stage or on TV, and how different those things are in relation to "normalizing" anything.
Yeah can't wait until you say something in frustration and get hauled away for it. People supporting this bullshit are the only people who deserve to have it happen to them, and as long as we're going down the fascism hellslide anyway I'm gonna take some satisfaction in seeing the people who supported the Leopards come to the horrific realization about exactly whose faces were on the menu.