Ironically, once you decide a person or group is "stupid," you are relieved from thinking about them

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160. Just to be clear about how I feel about racism, sexism, etc. - I copy/pasted response 159 below.

"My opinion of engaging those ideologies is by calling them out as racists, bigots, sexists, etc.

As I see it, those terms all have reasonably objective definitions that can be applied. For instance, I can explain how most abortion laws are actually morality laws against women's sexuality. A Trump voter may not agree - they may not even understand - but it is a rational process. I can do the same with racist behavior, environmental degradation, crimes against queer, trans, and other disempowered groups - but I cannot explain why someone is stupid. For me, the word has no objective, baseline meaning. I think it is really serving as a label of "less-human-than-I-am" and gives the user permission to disregard the humanity of their ideological rivals.

Again, I think calling out bigotry, racism, hate crimes, anti-semitism, etc, is absolutely critical to the struggle because they are demonstrable definitionally. However, "stupid" "deplorable" "degenerate" and so on are subjective words that I do not think have very wide spread definitions in common."

I am not at all advocating what you are describing. I am not talking about people's feelings being hurt. I am not talking about leaving racism, sexism, and violence against the less powerful unchallenged and unlabelled. I am stating that terms like "stupid" and so on are not widely definable and serve only to galvanize and dehumanize one's ideological rivals.