You're perhaps not aware that you tend to do this projection either directly or passively towards the person or the view expressed or position held.
From just today, an example of doing this directly would be projection of 'upset' onto a poster in another thread this morning,
An example of doing it passively is here:
"You are woke lefties forcing a company to stop advertising, I am a rational man of the people expressing my annoyance that this brand is not expressing the values of the people.
Do we really need to bring Gillette or Disney or the million other companies subjected to right wing outrage up"
The left are rational, calm folk. The right tend towards outrage.
But you are not alone here in this. It seems to be a style of discussion employed by a couple of others, though admittedly your style is more subtle.
I think you’re paranoid.
To clarify, the first sentence was using a well worn trope of “you are irrational I am rational” when two sides do the same thing. The point is everyone does it, but you’ve taken it to be an attack rather than what it is, which is a comment on shared humanity.
The second furthers that point by bringing up concrete examples of outrage from the right (to balance this example of outrage from the left, again not assigning one side as the culprit). And yes, the reactions to Gillette and Star Wars/etc were outrage.
The most partisan thing I said is that “left wing” (socially liberal) values (“be nice” basically) we’re more marketable than controversial ideas like COVID denial and pedophilia apologism That’s been highlighted on GBN.
I don’t think this is a particularly controversial statement. Brands play safe not edgy shocker. I’ve even provided an example where the left wing orthodoxy (pro porn sex positiveness) is outweighed by the conservative anti porn position in marketers thoughts, again because it’s the safe option.
I’ve not talked about you, projected anything onto you or any single person.
