"Is Labeling People A Barrier to Understanding Them?"
 "The Democratic Party is in the midst of arguments about whether some of them should identify themselves as “democratic socialists.” Without getting into all the perceived or real political, personal, and strategic issues involved in this, the results of recent elections indicate that the label of their candidates is less important to voters than whether the candidates are fighters or folders when representing those voters and their concerns in these precarious times.
We know that how one labels one's enemies and opponents is often a conscious political strategy that is used to demean them. Political strategists, particularly in one party under the influence of someone like right-wing consultant Frank Luntz, intentionally impose negative labels on their political enemies.
We also know from psychologists that when children are given a label in childhood or tracked in school through some such judgement, they eventually internalize the label and begin to live as if it has some influence on them...."
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including his, in this issue, saying that we must go beyond just calling bigots hypocrites - the religion itself has to be held accountable. He names names and is right: 'What we’re seeing is the heart of what right-wing religion itself really is, not merely hypocrisy.'"
-- veteran LGBT activist (since 1959) and a founder of LA's Homosexual Information Center in 1968, Billy Glover
and this organization promotes and is a strong advocate for such thinking. He is a perfect fit for the 21st Century American thinking."
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