In western countries, since we were children we always were heavily discouraged from discussing or laughing at the behavior of certain individuals with mental issues or Autism.
I remember in grade 7 they put on a video, a documentary, about drug addicted and mentally ill people that lived on the streets of Toronto- if we laughed even once we would be kicked out of the class room. The video was hilarious (for any 13 year old) and featured addicts howling, rolling around and screaming out gibberish. Biting and scratching their arms thinking there was ''bugs'' inside. I tried as hard as I could not to laugh but I did and was kicked out.
We aren't supposed to laugh at the behavior of Chris Chan either, if you've read the articles condemning Kiwi Farms you will always see a passage in them stating ''Started as a site mocking a mentally ill, Autistic man'' and the tone of Chris being completely ''innocent'' and expresses faux concern for him and others to his kin.
Most of the cows aren't even nice people,the majority of them are actually quite awful. Genuinely kind, decent people regardless of Autism, mental illness, being a transgender etc. don't tend to get threads here. The KIwi critics don't seem to get this. They believe it's an attack on ''the innocent''.