When people decide to hate somebody that loathing becomes a pretext to nitpick and complain.
The merit of their mockery, in the end, is beyond facts.
I saw the same thing when I was a young boy.
Certain white southerners would nitpick anything said or done by blacks.
It is the same mindset.
Seeing another human being as "other" seems to make them fair game.
If you can find somebody to belittle it makes you feel better, superior and right.
This has been done in recent history. When Clinton was President there were books and videos released claiming he raped women, had people killed and otherwise
was nothing less than a monster. Following that, Hillary was the laughing stock. When Bush became President the jibes and ridicule piled higher and higher
with everything he said or did. Remember when Gerald Ford (a former football player) was President he was represented as a bumbling, clumsy oaf.
Carter was a hayseed. And on...and on...and on....
In the last few years Tom Cruise went from being number one box office to a laughing stock when he "acted out" on Oprah. The context later became his weird
religious connections (Scientology.) He is freely mocked no matter what he may do.
If we judge people by such standards we deserve to be judged ourselves.
People are just people. They sometimes do good things and they do stupid things. They are sometimes eloquent and sometimes tongue-tied.
It says more about the person who makes sport of others that they "need" to do this than it does about the object of their ridicule.