"Hate the game, not the player" (I've only heard this from nigger culture) has always struck me as a deplorable abdication of personal responsibility. It's the same mentality Progressives use to claim that poverty and "socio-economic factors" are what drive crime, instead of bad human beings exploiting vulnerable people around them. It says, "My circumstances are beyond my control, therefore I have no reason to behave myself." I hate it.