CMV: Using labels like "Trumptard", "Libtard", "SJW", "Nazi", and phrases like "problematic" and "sinful" are counter-productive in serious discourse with opposition or potential allies.

What you describe is an Ad Homenim. Your entire CMV is that ad homenim are bad, which they are. They mean you ran out of intelligent things to debate so you attack the person.

Even in war people are applied nicknames or slang terms becasue it makes them easier to dislike. Terms like Haji, Gooks, Jerries, etc are all terms born of an enemy.

So I want to argue with you but don’t want to acknowledge you as valid I am going to give a name, Nazi is popular right now that everyone is a Nazi that like trump. You disagree with someone of another race they are racist, or maybe they are overly sensitive so they are a SJW.

The point is you are right 100% right, that the names make it easier to dismiss that person and their views becasue they are part of group X.

The last part becasue I am trying to change your view is that the labels are in fact correct terms. There are Nazis, racists, SJW, bleed hearts, snowflakes , feminanazi etc. there really are. Just not as much as People think, and they aren’t who people think they are. So the label is thrown around to the point it loses meaning. Watered down.

Snysay your entire CMV is that Ad Homenim are bad and don’t add to further conversations. And that is true, not really a view. It’s the definition of the term.

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