Admittedly I'm trying to take what they said in good faith and to that effect filtered out whatever sounded like nonsense as perhaps them being unable to articulate themselves and found myself left with the words 'ethics' and 'culture' and went from there.

I mean, "I don't want to" is a valid response but it says something about the person and the culture they are raised in

Maybe they simply believe too strongly that it is unethical to say whatever they are asked to

Some things are not worthy of criticism, but most things can be. Especially leaders.

These things sound too silly to take at face value, so I'm assuming either English isn't their first language or they're having trouble expressing themselves.

(And because my humor seems to not register for most, I'm actually saying this person is very silly. My post was more to goad them into admitting they believe in racist and small-minded nonsense)