I’ve recently started talking about a phenomenon that is in many respects the opposite of a sociopath and one I will maintain is, for a cause I will hereafter mention, worse than sociopaths.
These I call socioempaths, not actual empaths like in sci-fi or fantasy stories actually gifted to feel what others feel, a form of emotional telepathy, but instead people who presume to know others feels based on nothing more than presumptions and stereotypes, people who are infamously able to be offended by proxy, by what they assume that others should be offended by.
Where sociopaths draw neigh inviolate lines between themselves and others socioempaths PRESUME that they’ve overcome those walls naturally there ... at least with people they imagine are correct thinking for where they are pigeonholed ideologically by socioempaths.
What makes socioempaths worse than sociopaths is the way that socioempaths naturally clump together, drawing support from each other maybe even in the same moment they are living in terror of being called out by others like them for not being correct enough in their attitudes, so that at some level the ease by which they are offended by proxy or the degree to which they conform to whatever those around them seem to be doing at the moment is a posturing in hopes of being left alone ... and since of course this is a mindless process it is one easily manipulated by people with bad intentions.
So where sociopaths try to get others to go with them but may collectively be like herded cats, socioempaths are easily herded even without a human actively doing the herding (there is of course the spiritual realm).