Are you kidding me? It happens on a daily basis, at the hands of millions of people, in all directions. People absolutely try to defend another person's bad behavior by attributing it to the fact that the person belongs to a marginalized or underprivileged group. Or, they implore an abused individual to "be the bigger person" due to the abused individual possessing some form (fill in the blank!) of privilege.

I wrote more about it here:

https://medium.com/counterarts/the-defense-mechanism-fallacy-20a7d2acdfe4