I think perhaps I had misread you as saying your motivation to combat the memes was reduced if that combat reinforced clueless entitlement.

Ahhhh, okay. No, just that I don't feel it's necessary or helpful to signal my own participation to someone making such a demand, compared to signalling that they're being inappropriate.

Entitlement always annoys me, but I try to be explicitly suspicious of decisions I make out of annoyance,

Not a bad policy at all.