I fucking hate these shitheads, I was arguing with one earlier and no matter how many facts I gave him with proper sources he just refused to actually show any kind of respect

  • zea@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    22·
    11 months ago

    I’m assuming you mean that thing where people can imagine what another person feels?

    I have a hypothesis: they do imagine what others feel, but they imagine it wrong. For instance, a transphobe might try to imagine what it’s like to be trans, but the closest to that they can get is doing it for shits and giggles or for perverted reasons, so that’s what they think it must be like.

    Of course, most logical evidence would disprove that, but empathy (feelings) trump facts to some people.

    • HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world
      11·
      11 months ago

      That’s them imagining it how THEY’D feel if they ‘chose’ to become trans, ie projection. I think empathy has to have the correct feelings.

    • euphoric.cat@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
      7·
      11 months ago

      I can definitely see some transphobes thinking that, like some I talked to unironically think all lgbtq people are pedophiles, and wouldn’t give me an explanation other than “they just are”