I used to consider myself center-left, but I don’t know. I frankly don’t care about much, the state of the economy, the state of the U.S. despite being American, or what Trump does in office. It’s simply not my problem and I think it’s boring.

I don’t have high empathy to begin with, and I believe that since it doesn’t directly affect me, I don’t care one way or another. For now, I consider myself to be bisexual (or maybe straight but bicurious?). I believe it’s normal (not right, normal) for some bisexual people to be homophobic, especially when their preference leans toward the opposite gender, since bisexuality is still vastly different from homosexuality.

While I respect everyone regardless as they’re all people, I simply don’t care about certain rights one way or another. I believe LGBT, for example, are people who deserve equal treatment, but I don’t particularly care as I never faced homophobia.

I won’t hang out with certain people. I view them as people with rights, they’re just not my cup of tea.

I don’t understand people with disabilities and won’t pretend to, but I also can’t help them much as someone who hasn’t gone through it, doesn’t know many people like that, nor cares enough to research. I don’t hang out with lesbians because I only hang out with people I relate to, and I can’t hang out with a woman who only likes women.

I like getting attention from men, as they’re masculine. I find I can relate to men/women who like men, and help men who like women with dating women/maybe see them as romantic candidates.

While I do believe everyone deserves equal rights, I don’t have much empathy. I don’t know how to help nor do I care much, frankly, and I am certainly no activist.

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    5 hours ago

    I mean this as a kind gesture, I think you should seek therapy. A lot of your question posts are quite out there and don’t seem very healthy. I know therapy helped me! :)

    I will comment on one point in your post because I think it’s worth saying. Everything is political, so not caring only really shows your own privilege. But on the other hand it’s easy to get overwhelmed but the state of the world especially in the US and be exhausted from consuming depressing political news. There must be a healthy middle ground between knowing what’s right and moral and not allowing it to cause your inner world to become a mess.

    I and probably most online leftist certainly struggle with this.