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Because they don't actually like Pokemon. They like the nostalgia it gives them. It reminds them of a time where they were free to be as racist as they wanted and could keep coercing women into staying in relationships with them.
For them, the world was so much more simple back then. They didn't have to be politically active back then because the the patriarchal, white supremacist culture they lived in made it so that the status quo always benefits them at the cost of minorities. Complexity mixed with accountability is the greatest fear for the past benefactors. Pokemon is just another event in the long gone past that they want to revive but they can't.
They'll blame it on "Degeneracy" or "Weak males" or "A small vague group of elitists" , but it's all cope over the more simple answer: It's not the late 90s/early 2000s anymore. 9/11 was 22 years ago. Technology moved on. Science moved on. Philosophy moved on. Yet they cling to this old world. The sad part is that they'll eventually die off like the dinosaurs they are. The next generation will replace them and rightfully hate them from the hateful reactionaries they are. This is the future they have chose.