What political labels are you (un)comfortable with using?

 
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Labels, especially political ones, are usually criticised for being too restrictive, and sorting people into a box. While I agree with this, I still like labels for their sheer utility. Therefore, I've tried to add a bit of nuance by giving you a broad compendium of political labels and then asking you to sort them into three categories.

Sort the labels into these categories:
- Happily Identify With
- Identify With Occasionally



If you don't know the definition of one of them - or simply don't care about its implications - then just ignore it or ask me. The last category, of course, needn't be included.

A note about the lexicon - if a label is comprised of two words, then the first usually denotes attitude while the second denotes content. For instance, a conservative libertarian would take a very conservative approach to libertarianism. While a libertarian conservative would use libertarianism as a way of reaching conservatism.

Here are the words:
Right Wing
Left Wing


Right, then. I'll sort them into my own categories:
Happily Identify With:
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Occasionally Identify With:
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Have a look through other people's; see if anything surprises you.


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Don't have much to say but I'll give it a shot >.>

Happily Identify With
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Identify With Occasionally
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Happily Identify With:
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Occasionally Identify With:
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I don't know if Conservative Liberal means what I think it does, but a generally conservative attitude mixed with liberal views is roughly what I interpret that as.

Same for Social Liberal, I'm assuming that just means that you think people should be allowed to mind their own damn business when it comes to putting their whatchyamacallits in other people's doohickeys  or getting married to another consenting human etc.


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Happily Identify With:
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Occasionally Identify With:
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Most people think of the Libertarian Party and Minarchism when you say the word "Libertarian".  I prefer voluntarist and anarcho-capitalist because both terms avoid such confusion.


 
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There's only two labels I don't like to identify myself with, because it starts a shitstorm whenever I do.

I'm a feminist, and I'm a vegan.

Everything else, I embrace.


 
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Of the terms you listed, though... give me a sec...

Happily identify with
Occasionally identify with

Looks like I'll have to study up on a lot of these.
Last Edit: December 19, 2014, 06:10:42 PM by Verbatim


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Happy with or couldn't care less:
-Conservative
-Classical Liberal
-Fiscal Conservative
-Conservative Libertarian
-Libertarian
-Monetarist
-Social Liberal
-Protectionist

Not happy with
-Theoconservative
-Cultural Conservative
-Monarchist
-Minarchist
-Voluntarist
-Mordern Liberal
-Marxian Socialist
-Anarcho-Communist
-Stalinist
-Feminism
-Keynesian
-Democrat (Party)
-Democrat (somebody who supports democracy)

I'm a person that supports a Republic, not a Democracy as it's essentially a dictatorship by the majority. The U.S for certain isn't a Democracy, nor was it founded on Democracy ideals; it was founded on the ideas of a Republic


 
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I'm a person that supports a Republic, not a Democracy as it's essentially a dictatorship by the majority. The U.S for certain isn't a Democracy, nor was it founded on Democracy ideals; it was founded on the ideas of a Republic
What? The two aren't mutually exclusive. You can be a republic and a democracy - as America is.


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Happily Identify With:
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Occasionally Identify With:
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Political labels mean different things in different countries. All you can do at this point is just explicitly state what your opinions are on everything.


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Additionally, if this were 20 to 30 years ago I would have considered myself to be a feminist but under the current definition and the way things are going, I consider myself to be egalitarian.


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Those that don't apply to me.