Woke politics has created a label culture problem

 

Good morning all,

Just thought I would throw that in since being polite in American politics has been thrown out with the bath water.

It seems that no one can do anything without a label being attached as to the why that was done or happened.

Harris picks Walz and now she is anti-sematic. Or everyone is making a big deal about Shapiro being a “jew”, not Jewish or a person of Jewish faith, he is a “jew” as if that is supposed to mean something.

And if you criticize Harris you are racist or misogynist, God forbid it has something to do with she is a liberal and some people do not like her policy ideas.

Are there some people who are going to criticize her just because she is a woman or non-white? Yes. And by the way what do we call bi racial people nowadays? Bi-racial?  Or has a new term sprung up that we can all label people. Some of my children are multi ethnic and they have struggled with what to put on forms when the question of race is asked. Other was a choice for them for years.

Labels are a problem and have been since someone looked at someone else thousands of years ago and said you look different. Unfortunately then they decided the other person was a problem because they looked different and here are half the problems of human history defined.

And then there is the split where people like creating labels so they can be identified which brings us back to the problem mentioned in the above paragraph or others who try to white wash labels in some kind of hackneyed approach to avoiding the reality we are all different.

And labels have become the tool of hate now for so many people. People use labels indiscriminately just to justify how they feel about something or to make themselves feel better. There are no filters and people don’t seem to care. Even the people being labeled appear to relish in the monikers thrown at them or relish in the victimhood mentality. And this means when real problems arise people gloss over them. Or another words there are real racists out there, but so many people play so many games you have a hard time distinguishing idiots from racists. And yes I know some of you will tell me they are one and the same. Maybe so, but there are people who make a living off their racism, exploiting ignorance and idiocy etc and those people need to be addressed different from the idiots. Education can help the idiots, hate filled racism takes a whole different approach.

Yet using labels can make it hard to distinguish who is who in the above horror. Everyone uses labels so indiscriminately that we cannot get past the name calling to solve problems or even talk to one another.

I really do not know what to do, but I am tired of reading so much hate just because one person made a decision and no one can accept that person made that decision based on what may be best or at least workable for the decision maker.

Labels nowadays create too many presumptions.