We have a lot of people (and at the risk of drawing ire, a lot in the queer community) who demand that every character, including villains, must espouse progressive, inclusive values and hahahahaha I hate it so much.

It's a way of avoiding self-examination, pretending like morality in stories should fit a narrow right/wrong paradigm so that readers don't have to look at their own lives and ask if an antagonist's behavior echoes their own behavior, the behavior of someone they know or their culture/belief system.

Virtuous evil

I have a half-joke about adding footnotes to all my darker work with difficult, problematic characters, and the footnotes just say 'this character is wrong because x and y and the author does not agree with them'

Some people actually resonate with villains more than people realise, or even align with them. At some point they go 'ok, villain, teach me how', the villain gives them permission to be abhorrent.

Yeah... While I totally get people growing tired of moustache-twirling villains who tie helpless ladies on train tracks and seeing some more depth and nuance, that's a LITTLE too much overboard, hahah!

I am speechless

Almost like characters can lie and have incomplete knowledge.