There's a difference between being against something, being apathetic to something, and being an activist campaigning against something. There's also a difference between projection and protest. But overlap does exist.

If someone said "I hate spiders, they are creepy", they probably hate spiders. If they said "Spiders are awful, with how they sexually seduce all of us with their sexy spider legs!", and held a protest once a month against the concept of spider legs, I'd be a bit more inclined to question their worldview in terms of projection. Same protest, both against spiders, and neither supporting them in any way, but the second one is clearly off. Real-life examples aren't as obviously clear-cut, but you can often still distinguish the difference.

"I don't like stories featuring tweenage men because it does not appeal to me. I am not its market." is a face-value statement. "I don't like stories featuring tweenage men because it makes me think sexy thoughts, which disturbs me, the stories/images are disturbing" is a less face-value statement.

The statement of like or dislike is ultimately unimportant. The why is the core element. The "why" is what makes up the projection. I am generally against things that harm living (or recently-living) humans. I am generally apathetic towards things that do not harm living (or recently-living) humans. Others have very different worldviews than me, and might say the exact same line, but define "harm", "recently", or "human" in very different ways than I do.

In example, I do not consider a drawing to be a human, and do not consider exploding said drawing to be "harm". But someone else may think that viewing an explosion in a video game hurts real-life living humans. Neither are projection at that point. But if someone says they don't want violence in video games because (the "why") seeing someone get shot in a game makes the viewer want to shoot people in real life... They should probably seek mental health help.

There's a difference between being against something, being apathetic to something, and being an activist campaigning against something. There's also a difference between projection and protest. But overlap does exist.

If someone said "I hate spiders, they are creepy", they probably hate spiders. If they said "Spiders are awful, with how they sexually seduce all of us with their sexy spider legs!", I'd be a bit more inclined to question their worldview in terms of projection. Same protest, both against spiders, and neither supporting them in any way, but the second one is clearly off. Real-life examples aren't as obviously clear-cut, but you can often still distinguish the difference.

"I don't like stories featuring tweenage men because it does not appeal to me. I am not its market." is a face-value statement. "I don't like stories featuring tweenage men because it makes me think sexy thoughts, which disturbs me, the stories/images are disturbing" is a less face-value statement.

The statement of like or dislike is ultimately unimportant. The why is the core element. The "why" is what makes up the projection. I am generally against things that harm living (or recently-living) humans. I am generally apathetic towards things that do not harm living (or recently-living) humans. Others have very different worldviews than me, and might say the exact same line, but define "harm", "recently", or "human" in very different ways than I do.

In example, I do not consider a drawing to be a human, and do not consider exploding said drawing to be "harm". But someone else may think that viewing an explosion in a video game hurts real-life living humans. Neither are projection at that point. But if someone says they don't want violence in video games because (the "why") seeing someone get shot in a game makes the viewer want to shoot people in real life... They should probably seek mental health help.

There's a difference between being against something, being apathetic to something, and being an activist campaigning against something. There's also a difference between projection and protest. But overlap does exist.

If someone said "I hate spiders, they are creepy", they probably hate spiders. If they said "Spiders are awful, with how they sexually seduce all of us with their sexy spider legs!", I'd be a bit more inclined to question their worldview in terms of projection. Same protest, both against spiders, and neither supporting them in any way, but the second one is clearly off. Real-life examples aren't as obviously clear-cut, but you can often still distinguish the difference.

"I don't like stories featuring tweenage men because it does not appeal to me. I am not its market." is a face-value statement. "I don't like stories featuring tweenage men because it makes me think sexy thoughts, which disturbs me, the stories/images are disturbing" is a less face-value statement.

The statement of like or dislike is ultimately unimportant. The why is the core element. The "why" is what makes up the projection. I am generally against things that harm living (or recently-living) humans. I am generally apathetic towards things that do not harm living (or recently-living) humans. Others have very different worldviews than me, and might say the exact same line, but define "harm", "recently", or "human" in very different ways than I do.

In example, I do not consider a drawing to be a human, and do not consider exploding said drawing to be "harm". But someone else may think that viewing an explosion in a video game hurts real-life living humans. Neither are projection at that point. But if someone says they don't want violence in video games because seeing someone get shot in a game makes the viewer want to shoot people in real life... They should probably seek mental health help.

There's a difference between being against something, being apathetic to something, and being an activist campaigning against something. There's also a difference between projection and protest. But overlap does exist.

If someone said "I hate spiders, they are creepy", they probably hate spiders. If they said "Spiders are awful, with how they sexually seduce all of us with their sexy spider legs!", I'd be a bit more inclined to question their worldview in terms of projection. Same protest, both against spiders, and neither supporting them in any way, but the second one is clearly off. Real-life examples aren't as obviously clear-cut, but you can often still distinguish the difference.

"I don't like stories featuring tweenage men because it does not appeal to me. I am not its market." is a face-value statement. "I don't like stories featuring tweenage men because it makes me think sexy thoughts, which disturbs me, the stories/images are disturbing" is a less face-value statement.

The statement of like or dislike is ultimately unimportant. The why is the core element. The "why" is what makes up the projection.