You seem to be coming from a place of knowing about comicsgate and have particular cares about it. Handman clearly doesn’t even know what it’s about so it’s not fair to say he is expressing callousness to you particular concerns. You could say, hey the name sounds dopey but it’s actually something important because X reasons. Maybe he’ll agree with you or maybe he’ll have more contrarian views about it. You seem to be way overreading Handman’s post.
In that case, is it not callous for someone (with no knowledge of, let’s say, the Holocaust) to say “I hate all this bitching about the Holocaust which is of no consequence to me.”
Because “comicsgate” is like the Holocaust? That question is only rhetorical but gets to a fundamental problem with your hypothetical.
Not all of us are so excited about the social skirmishes that occur nowadays and think most of it is pretty dumb and avoidable.
If somebody has no idea what the Holocaust is, they should be informed. If they have some inkling it was about killing a bunch of people but don’t care, that’s another matter.
The point wasn’t that “comicsgate” is like the Holocaust. The point is that you can’t just go around saying that people are silly and stupid for complaining about something you have no knowledge of - Holocaust being the extreme most pie-in-your face scenario, there are of course scenarios where it’s right to call an outrage/scandal stupid, but it’s unwise to declare as much before you even know anything about it.