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CMV: All labels to identify activists or certain groups of people in general (ex.Feminist, ANTIFA, Alt-Right, Liberal) are hurting society more than they are helping.

I strongly believe terms used to identify large groups of people who support a certain cause used to show simply where you stood in the discussion, in recent years, however, they have been used to identify a person. 

Social Media has perpetuated this judge a book by its cover mindset, allowing these terms to make 2-dimensional caricatures out of regular people that, at times, have opinions that don’t completely align with the group they are supporting, but they are lumped in with the group as a whole anyway. These labels have become stereotypes, something we’re supposed to avoid as a civilized society, so that the country doesn’t divide into tribal mentality. When someone doesn’t like an opinion of another person, instead of discussing it, they label one another, “Well you’re just a filthy liberal/alt-right because of that opinion,” this is incredibly detrimental to society. 

For us to unify the US again we need to relinquish these labels all together, or at least give them less power, so that we can go back to discussing issues civilly. These stereotypes/labels give the opposite effect of turning people towards their causes, because the public’s view of them is easily manipulated and they are shown as more radical in the media than some actually are. 

We need to go back to when we understood that people are individuals with their own thoughts and opinions, and that grouping people simplifies an individual dramatically, allowing hate and prejudice to fill in the blanks.

Change my view if you believe that the current way society identifies people actually benefits us in any way.
gpt
It depends on helping who? Labels help politicians to dehumanize the “enemy” and getting their own faithful to the polls. We are living in time when political discussion is focused on turning out the voters, not changing opinions, and scaring people by pointing out vicious “feminists” or bloodthirsty “gun nuts” gets voters excited.