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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Assuming people are either is a problem in my book.
And I wasn't talking to you -- I was talking to someone who actually did say "[...] it's just code words for "somebody you ought to hate", [...]"
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And when you were quoting me, who wrote "it's just code words for "somebody you ought to hate", I was naming certain individuals or groups who in my opinion were using these labels as such, which is the reason why I find the use of the labels problematic, not that I believe that all people who use them are automatically using them in that way.
In general, I think that when someone uses a label to identify a group, people read into it based on whether the label was created by the group that self-identifies with it, or a group that is opposed to it. I think it's very easy to be written off as a mindless hater, if you use a label that was created by the group opposed to something and you are critical of the group. Obviously, with SJW, you have a problem because there's not really a self-identified group with its own term for itself.