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RadiationTherapy

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6. Well, I find it to be the same. It is using a lightweight term to describe terrible ideologies.
Wed May 24, 2017, 01:19 PM
May 2017

Furthermore, like those who rally together as "Nasty Women," the term "Deplorable" has served to galvanize groups and they seem proud of the label. Furthermore, persistent use of labels to describe groups tends to result in dehumanization of all involved which can lead to horrific violence, etc. (Alfred Korzybski - Science and Sanity), and so I prefer more specific criticisms of behaviors. Furthermore, I think labels imply permanence about the undesirable behaviors, which I also find unhelpful, i.e. "that child is spoiled" has an implication of permanence when, indeed, a child may grow out of that phase.

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