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Labeling comes so natural to us - and for good evolutionary reason, but that isn’t my focus with this. In a social context, we tactfully use them on people to quickly grok their views about a (potentially) specific topic on what is otherwise very nuanced beliefs that a multi-dimensional being holds.

Specifically I advocate to consider one’s opinion on a topic entirely independant of that person - they are not their opinion. I find the entire concept of ‘bucketing’ a human (not their individual arguments) to be reductive at best, and mutually wasteful at worst.

Perhaps you dig through my archive of content across the web and decide articulately that I fall into this bucket (this is not accurate btw, I just made these up - had fun doing so actually):

Rusty is definitely a post-structuralist, eco-anarchist, market-socialist utilitarian with a penchant for existentialist voluntarism and pragmatic egalitarianism

A likewise thoughtful individual took the same liberty and generated the following:

Mr. Bucketz is most accurately a neo-humanist, techno-syndicalist, libertarian-communitarian with a deep commitment to dialectical rationalism and cosmopolitan localism

Fantastic. How helpful is this really? Now it’s up to me to define specifically what my arbitrary definitions of these poorly understood words are so I don’t dare be labeled as a ‘nazi’.

FFS, stop bucketing people. And don’t ‘bucket’ me. I am the Bucket. I therefore collect all labels at times.

Labeling the idea or argument is fine. Labeling the person per a single or handful of ideas is not.