It isn't that the Left, or indeed "everyone", projects. It's that everyone has lenses and biases with which they view the world.
I see some saucy Misty art (or whatever underage v& is popular these days) and shrug. Fictional. The only real tragedy is that The Pokemon Company isn't being paid for such mass use of their intellectual property.
Someone else sees it, and says "this image makes people want to harm real-world children". Well, the only people that they could know the thoughts of is themself. It's certainly not supported by data, which actually shows the opposite fun fact, it's a purely emotional argument, with emotions generating from within the self.
Always watch for people who define a horrible negative trait, and then include themselves (overtly or subtly) in the overarching category they're describing.
The opposite political side showcase of this is the gay pastors. The ones going "God says gays gonna go to hell, take it up with Him, I don't make the laws." appeal to authority or data, not emotion or self. Meanwhile, the ones going "those gays seduce good men away from the righteous path with their sexual ways, did I mention that pastors are good men on righteous paths?"... Probably gonna be found in a gay bar at some point, arguing from an emotive and personal lens stance.
The hypersensitivity towards racism made me unironically racist. Once I saw them screeching about situations that were not racist, I became aware of how massively coddled minorities were and the massive effort to suppress information about their bad habits. Even the show COPS purposefully selected videos to show white criminals far more often than their representation in crime.
It isn't that the Left, or indeed "everyone", projects. It's that everyone has lenses and biases with which they view the world.
I see some saucy Misty art (or whatever underage v& is popular these days) and shrug. Fictional. The only real tragedy is that The Pokemon Company isn't being paid for such mass use of their intellectual property.
Someone else sees it, and says "this image makes people want to harm real-world children". Well, the only people that they could know the thoughts of is themself. It's certainly not supported by data, which actually shows the opposite fun fact, it's a purely emotional argument, with emotions generating from within the self.
Always watch for people who define a horrible negative trait, and then include themselves (overtly or subtly) in the overarching category they're describing.
The opposite political side showcase of this is the gay pastors. The ones going "God says gays gonna go to hell, take it up with Him, I don't make the laws." appeal to authority or data, not emotion or self. Meanwhile, the ones going "those gays seduce good men away from the righteous path with their sexual ways, did I mention that pastors are good men on righteous paths?"... Probably gonna be found in a gay bar at some point, arguing from an emotive and personal lens stance.
They see racism everywhere for the same reason.
The hypersensitivity towards racism made me unironically racist. Once I saw them screeching about situations that were not racist, I became aware of how massively coddled minorities were and the massive effort to suppress information about their bad habits. Even the show COPS purposefully selected videos to show white criminals far more often than their representation in crime.