A man with a gun breaks into your house. As he goes from room to room, shooting up the place, he keeps yelling out, “Don’t you oppress me! Don’t you defend yourself! Stop oppressing me!”
Meanwhile, all your neighbors are standing in their front yards and yelling support for the gunman, and cursing you for trying to defend your home from his attack.
Many years ago a coworker made the same argument for the Palestinian side holding that Israel was the intruder.
It occurs to me that a sufficiently irrational position can't be successfully argued against. Sometimes it's best to let the muzzle do the speaking.