palou said:
Aeolus451 said:
I agree that people shouldn't misuse labels but not about using labels in general. We disagree on that part. The problem is that people often misuse terms which leads to misunderstanding and the terms being conflated. Also some of the terms are muddy because they're fairly new and it's still being hashed out. That guy with the car incident was alt-right in the loose sense but I don't know specially what he described himself as (white nationalist, kkk or neo-nazi).
You seem like a moderate or centrist with a leaning to the left to be honest. I'm not familiar with canadian political parties. I agree with a lot of that in the way you worded it and some of it I disagree with. What do you identify yourself as in politics?
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I try not to associate myself too strongly to any political term, specifically to avoid preconceptions. The term "political utilitarian" would probably be the most conscice description of my beliefs, though it leaves a lot of ambiguity.
I think you can find some pretty good examples of how labels can disrupt debate in the last few replies on this thread. People stop arguing about what makes their suggestions better or worse, instead categorizing each other and then attempting to turn that categorization into an insults. It's hideous.
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I've seen that term a bit in relation to foreign politics but not in america. I'll have to look into that.
