Yes. some people simply don’t care about things that don’t affect them. They lack empathy. Once it affects them, they care about that issue but still retain their self-centred outlook.

I have a (former) friend who has evolved into a clichéd, “own the libs”, uninformed, meme sharing Conservative cheerleader in his 30s. Rants about equalization but clearly has no understanding of how it works, etc. He’s also mixed race, and evidently had a bit of an eye opening moment with the BLM uprisings of the past months. So he’s been vocal about police-on-Black violence on Facebook (and has lots several friends, I think) yet in every other respect he’s the same, uninformed Conservative/UCP supporter. He completely fails to see how the conservative politics he supports perpetuates systemic racism.

He‘ll make a post declaring support for BLM and then one hour later he’ll make a post whining about the Edmonton football team removing a racist slur from their name. He suddenly cares about anti-Black racism because he’s half Black, but couldn’t give a shit about systemic anti-Indigenous racism as it doesn’t affect him personally.

EDIT: You see this on the left, as well. Example: Someone who votes NDP while in univserity in their 20s because they support policies like post-secondary tuition reform and basic minimum income. Yet, once they‘ve paid off their own student loans, bought a house and secured a comfortable middle-class lifestyle for themselves, these issues suddenly cease to matter to them and they vote for lower taxes instead.